🏆 The Gedeo Cultural Landscape - UNESCO World Heritage

Inscription Details [citation:8]

• Date: 2023, 45th session
• Criteria: (iii) and (v)
• Decision: 45 COM 8B.6

Statement of Outstanding Universal Value

Brief Synthesis [citation:8]

"The Gedeo Cultural Landscape spread along the eastern escarpment of the Ethiopian highlands, is an exceptional testimony to a long-standing and still living indigenous Gedeo cultural tradition of agroforestry, with its layered cultivation of mature trees providing shelter for enset, coffee and other food crops. This symbiotic system, linking culture and nature, is underpinned by traditional knowledge systems of the Gedeo community..."

Integrity and Authenticity [citation:8]

The property is "extremely vulnerable to a large number of social and economic pressures." Traditional governance weakened—"urgent measures are needed."

Management Requirements [citation:8]

• Proclamation 189/2021 for conservation
• Sustainable land use plan needed by Dec 2025
• Buffer zone consideration
• Community-based monitoring