Socio-Ecological Niche and Factors Affecting Agroforestry Practice Adoption in Different Agroecologies of Southern Tigray, Ethiopia
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
The only concern with this article is the quality of the English. It is still comprehensible but there are many corrections requiring restructuring of the sentence structure, making sure that the tense of some of the verbs are correct, and many other minor corrections.
This is a potentially interesting and very useful article.
While the text is generally quite comprehensible, there are many corrections needed to the text. This includes restructuring of a number of sentences. There are also many small errors in the English ... they do not prevent understanding although they might to some readers.
If the lead author could work with a native English speaking scientist, I estimate that it would take 2 full hours to review and improve the text so that it is publishable.
Author Response
Author response to reviewer’s comments
(Sustainability)
On behalf of myself and the co-authors, I take the opportunity to thank the anonymous reviewers for their constructive comments, questions and editions. We have responded to all questions and comments, as discussed below. All of the given comments and suggestions by the reviewers were relevant, and accordingly we have updated the manuscript significantly. We feel the quality and readability of the paper have been improved significantly.
Response to Handling Editor
Socio-ecological niche and factors affecting agroforestry practice adoption in different agroecology of southern Tigray, Ethiopia
Belay Manjur Gebru 1,2, Sonam Wangyel Wang 1, Sea Jin Kim 1, and Woo-Kyun Lee 1, *
Dear Editors,
We appreciate your valuable comments and suggestions for improving the manuscript. We have revised the manuscript following your comments although it revised as an article. We kindly remind you this manuscript is a concept paper. Please find our responses below.
First Reviewer concern
The only concern with this article is the quality of the English. It is still comprehensible but there are many corrections requiring restructuring of the sentence structure, making sure that the tense of some of the verbs are correct, and many other minor corrections.
Answers
we would like to thank the reviewers for their significant contribution to improve the grammatical and spelling errors. Based on the comments and suggestions from the reviewer, we made significant changes using the track change in the manuscript
Second Reviewer concern
The manuscript is very interesting, as adoption decision is very complex in agroforestry. I would advise the authors to present in the Abstract section the factors that were identified to influence agroforestry decision.
Answer
We included the adoption of agroforestry strategies up on the knowledge of the local farmers and we , make highlight in the abstract from line 32-38
Second, it would be interesting that the authors analyze the effect of gender on the type of system adopted. Indeed, women are most often devoted to feed the household, whereas men are cash-oriented in sub-Saharan Africa. Does this gender-discriminating role against women is reflected in the study?
Answer
We try to elaborate included the gender and agroforestry adoption role of the study area In Line 261-270
I expected that a system including livestock rearing (agrosilvopasture system) would appear among the most important practices in the area. Could the authors explain why it was not?
Answer
Thank you so much for this vital question about Agrosilvopasture system and livestock rearing condition of the study area: and we included from line number 108-128
Author Response File: 
Author Response.docx
Reviewer 2 Report
The manuscript is very interesting, as adoption decision is very complex in agroforestry. I would advise the authors to present in the Abstract section the factors that were identified to influence agroforestry decision.
Second, it would be interesting that the authors analyze the effect of gender on the type of system adopted. Indeed, women are most often devoted to feed the household, whereas men are cash-oriented in sub-Saharan Africa. Does this gender-discriminating role against women is reflected in the study?
I expected that a system including livestock rearing (agrosilvopastoral ssytem) would appear among the most important practices in the area. Could the authors explain why it was not?
Author Response
Author response to reviewer’s comments
(Sustainability)
On behalf of myself and the co-authors, I take the opportunity to thank the anonymous reviewers for their constructive comments, questions and editions. We have responded to all questions and comments, as discussed below. All of the given comments and suggestions by the reviewers were relevant, and accordingly we have updated the manuscript significantly. We feel the quality and readability of the paper have been improved significantly.
Response to Handling Editor
Socio-ecological niche and factors affecting agroforestry practice adoption in different agroecology of southern Tigray, Ethiopia
Belay Manjur Gebru 1,2, Sonam Wangyel Wang 1, Sea Jin Kim 1, and Woo-Kyun Lee 1, *
Dear Editors,
We appreciate your valuable comments and suggestions for improving the manuscript. We have revised the manuscript following your comments although it revised as an article. We kindly remind you this manuscript is a concept paper. Please find our responses below.
First Reviewer concern
The only concern with this article is the quality of the English. It is still comprehensible but there are many corrections requiring restructuring of the sentence structure, making sure that the tense of some of the verbs are correct, and many other minor corrections.
Answers
we would like to thank the reviewers for their significant contribution to improve the grammatical and spelling errors. Based on the comments and suggestions from the reviewer, we made significant changes using the track change in the manuscript
Second Reviewer concern
The manuscript is very interesting, as adoption decision is very complex in agroforestry. I would advise the authors to present in the Abstract section the factors that were identified to influence agroforestry decision.
Answer
We included the adoption of agroforestry strategies up on the knowledge of the local farmers and we , make highlight in the abstract from line 32-38
Second, it would be interesting that the authors analyze the effect of gender on the type of system adopted. Indeed, women are most often devoted to feed the household, whereas men are cash-oriented in sub-Saharan Africa. Does this gender-discriminating role against women is reflected in the study?
Answer
We try to elaborate included the gender and agroforestry adoption role of the study area In Line 261-270
I expected that a system including livestock rearing (agrosilvopasture system) would appear among the most important practices in the area. Could the authors explain why it was not?
Answer
Thank you so much for this vital question about Agrosilvopasture system and livestock rearing condition of the study area: and we included from line number 108-128
Author Response File: Author Response.docx
