🌾 The Gedeo Cultural Landscape
UNESCO World Heritage agroforestry system in southern Ethiopia
📋 Fast Facts
- Located in southern Ethiopia's highlands along the eastern escarpment of the Rift Valley
- Covers approximately 246,000 hectares of densely inhabited landscape
- Maintained by the Gedeo people for centuries using sophisticated agroforestry systems
- UNESCO World Heritage Site recognised for exceptional cultural tradition and sustainable land use
The Gedeo Cultural Landscape in southern Ethiopia represents one of the world's oldest and most efficient agroforestry systems. Stretching across 246,000 hectares in the highlands along the eastern escarpment of the Ethiopian Rift Valley, it embodies a living tradition maintained by the Gedeo people across millennia. The landscape integrates enset (false banana), coffee, fruit trees, timber species, and sacred groves into a densely inhabited system that sustains high rural population density ...