Land degradation, mainly in the form of soil erosion, constitutes the basis for the problems of the low productivity and sluggish growth of Ethiopian agriculture. A national campaign against land degradation has been going on in the country for more than twenty-five years. Howev…
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Sustainable agriculture in China is highly threatened by rapid urbanization, land degradation and high population pressure. Yunnan Province, south-west China, is 94% mountainous and lacks flat land. Food shortages and inappropriate cultivation have led to intensive cultivation o…
This study focuses on the conflict that emerged in the 1930s and 1940s between the British colonial government officials and the African farmers in Vihiga, Western Kenya, over approaches to land management. The colonial state was more than convinced that unprecedented soil erosi…
Soil erosion is a complex, natural process that often is accelerated by such human activities as land clearance, agriculture, construction, and surface mining. Accurate soil erosion type/intensity maps can be effective tools in aid of soil erosion control efforts. The principal …
Households from the rural areas of developing countries often lack many markets of interest, leading them often to tradeoff their long-run wellbeing for short-run survival priorities. Such situations create pressures on the limited volumes of natural resources available to them,…