A study was conducted in the Lake Tana Basin of the highlands of Ethiopia on analysis of degradation of the land resources by looking into land use and cover changes(LUCCs), changes on hydrological, soil, and climate resources. As a result there were hotspot and brighter spot areas, which topographically steeply sloping areas where used for traditional agriculture are found to be hotspots of land degradation. The causes of land degradation, in the LTB, were expansion of crop cultivation, loss of vegetation along fragile places, and outfarm disposal of the biomass. Other causes of...