Impacts of soil and water conservation practices on soil property and wheat productivity in Southern Ethiopia

Integrating soil conservation practices and glyphosate-resistant crops: impacts on soil.

BACKGROUND Conservation practices often associated with glyphosate-resistant crops, e.g. limited tillage and crop cover, improve soil conditions, but only limited research has evaluated their effects on soil in combination with glyphosate-resistant crops. It is assumed that conservation practices have similar benefits to soil whether or not glyphosate-resistant crops are used. This paper review...

Impacts of Abattoir Waste-Water Irrigation on Soil Fertility and Productivity

Gender Role and Farmers’ Adoption Decision on Soil and Water Conservation in Kersa Districts of Eastern Hararghe Zone, Ethiopia (The Case of Fanya Juu, Soil and Stone Bund Measure)

Soil conservation is the only known way to protect the productive land. In country like Ethiopia, where droughts and floods cause food scarcity problem, soil and water conservation not only increases crop yield, but also prevents further deterioration of land. Soil and water conservation preserve soil moisture and drain water sustainably to avoid soil erosion and depletion of soil nutrients. So...

Valuing Soil Conservation Benefits of Agroforestry Practices

Although advocates of agroforestry have promoted soil conservation as one of its primary benefits, empirical estimates of these benefits have been lacking due to temporal and spatial complexity of agroforestry systems and soil resource dynamics. This study aims to reduce this gap by designing and testing a three stage farm level productivity methodology for economic evaluation of soil conservat...

An examination of soil and water conservation practices in the paddy fields of Guilan province, Iran.

This study examined the use of soil and water conservation (SWC) practices among rice farmers in Iran. A random sample of 400 rice paddy farmers in the Foumanat plain of Guilan province, who use SWC measures, was drawn from a population of 52 thousand farmers. A two-part questionnaire was used to examine the level of utilization of SWC practices and to profile paddy farmers. Internal consistenc...