Rural households’ livelihood vulnerability to climate variability and extremes: a livelihood zone-based approach in the Northeastern Highlands of Ethiopia

Ecological Processes

Table 4 Soil types area coverage and level of erodibility classes in relation to soil type erodibility (K-factor)

Soil types	Covered area	Average soil erodibility (K-factor) a*	Level of erodibility classes
Cambisols	11836 (70%)	0.20	Moderate
Leptosols	2177 (13%)	0.20	Moderate
Regosols	1489 (9%)	0.23	High
Vertisols	963 (6%)	0.15	Low
Xerosols	401 (2%)	0.30	High
Fluvisols	3 (0.02%)	0.23	High
Nitisols	49 (0.2%)	0.25	High

Note: a* is the soil erodibility (K-factor) in Hurni et al. (2015), and Gelagay and Minale (2016)