[PDF] A Study Of The Reasons For Success Or Failure Of Soil Conservation Projects eBook

Author : Jan de Graaff
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 46,64 MB
Release : 2019-04-29
Category : Nature
ISBN : 042953017X

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This book provides diverse information and critical know-how to implement appropriate methodology and cost-efficient monitoring and evaluation systems better suited to assess the impacts of soil conservation and wastershed multi-sectoral development activities. It draws on a worldwide experience of specialists and a large array of ground-truthing projects and programmes. This book will meet its objective if it contributes to convince financing institutions and project managers that integrated watershed management activities have the potential to generate highly desirable impacts for the society at large, which have to be accurately measured by adequate M&E systems.

Author : Chris Reij
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 17,42 MB
Release : 2013-11-19
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1134175930

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Indigenous soil and water conservation practices are rarely acknowledged in the design of conventional development projects. Instead, the history of soil and water conservation in Africa has been one of imposing external solutions without regard for local practice. There is a remarkably diverse range of locally developed and adapted technologies for the conservation of water and soil, well suited to their particular site and socio-economic conditions. But such measures have been ignored, and sometimes even overturned, by external solutions. Sustaining the Soil documents farmers' practices, exploring the origins and adaptations carried out by farmers over generations, in response to changing circumstances. Through a comparative analysis of conservation measures - from the humid zones of West Africa to the arid lands of the Sudan, from rock terraces in Morocco to the grass strips of Swaziland - the book explores the various factors that influence adoption and adaptation; farmers' perceptions of conservation needs; and the institutional and policy settings most favorable to more effective land husbandry. For the first time on an Africa-wide scale, this book shows that indigenous techniques work, and are being used successfully to conserve and harvest soil and water. These insights combine to suggest new ways forward for governments and agencies attempting to support sustainable land management in Africa, involving a fusion of traditional and modern approaches, which makes the most of both the new and the old.

Author : Norman Hudson
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 13,74 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789251034064

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"The main purpose of this Soils Bulletin is to suggest simple methods and techniques which might be used by people working in the field who are not employed to carry out research, but do have a need for information on runoff and erosion"--Foreword.

Author : Valdemar Hercilio de Freitas
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 13,63 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789251044995

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This report is intended for development practitioners This report is intended for development practitioners, extensionists and leaders or pioneers in farming communities, to inform them about the experiences and initiatives of farming communities in conservation agriculture in Santa Catarina State, Brazil, there have been widespread improvements in soil management. This has led to lower costs and improved returns combined with better conservation and soil resources. The main elements of success were minimum tillage, soil cover management and direct seeding practices, together with an effective and creative extension service. While these developments probably cannot be duplicated as such elsewhere, the methods and strategies may well inspire others to adapt and modify them for application in their own environments elsewhere, the methods and strategies may well inspire others to adapt and modify them for application in their own environments.

Author : Junliang Tian
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 744 pages
File Size : 45,9 MB
Release : 2000-05-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 1482274523

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"I've seen the Sudan, traveled in South and Central America and been all over Europe, but I've never seen what I've been able to see on this tour [of the Loess Plateau, China]." -Ed Skidmore, soil scientist, Wind Erosion Research Unit of the Agricultural Research Service, USDA, Manhattan, Kansas Overpopulation is at the core of most en

Author : Kurt Georg Steiner
Publisher : Balogh Scientific Books
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 43,7 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Agricultural conservation
ISBN :

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This report describes the extent of soil degradation, its bio-physical and socio-economic causes and macro- and micro-economic impacts. The causes behind the failure of soil conservation projects are analyzed. It also describes approaches for creating more favourable agro-political conditions.