Conservation plans and soil and water conservation practice use: Evidence from Iowa

Household-Level Determinants of Soil and Water Conservation Adoption Phases: Evidence from North-Western Ethiopian Highlands

Soil and water conservation (SWC) practices have been promoted in the highlands of Ethiopia during the last four decades. However, the level of adoption of SWC practices varies greatly. This paper examines the drivers of different stages of adoption of SWC technologies in the north-western highlands of Ethiopia. This study is based on a detailed farm survey among 298 households in three watersh...

Soil Erosion and Conservation

Effects of Conservation Tillage Technology Adoption on Wheat Yield, Water Use and Household Poverty

The interaction of population growth, technological improvement and climate change have impacted severely on agricultural and environmental sustainability. In Iran, conventional tillage practice has resulted in soil erosion and loss of soil organic matter. In this regard, Conservation Agriculture (CA) forms part of this alternative paradigm to agricultural production systems approaches and can ...

Worries over conservation plans

a scientist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and director of its Center for Ocean, Seafloor, and Marine Observing Systems. " We were asked to do something that we've never done before as a community: think collectively about how to do ocean sciences and work together to set priorities on how to do that. " Because the 2007 NSF budgets proposed by the Bush Administration and approve...

Soil and Water Conservation: Our History and Future Challenges

Supplemental material available online. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 78:1493–1499 doi:10.2136/sssaj2014.03.0110 Received 20 Mar. 2014. *Corresponding author ([email protected]). © Soil Science Society of America, 5585 Guilford Rd., Madison WI 53711 USA All rights reserved. No part of this periodical may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, includin...