Ongoing climate change poses a major threat to the soil resources of many African countries that mainly rely on an agricultural economy. While arid and semi-arid lands (ASALs) take up most Kenya’s land mass, approximately 64% its total croplands lie within mountainous areas with high rainfall, hence, highly vulnerable water erosion. Flooding Great Lakes increasing desertification ASALs are illu...

Soil erosion and sedimentation processes can be considered as serious eco-environmentalproblems. This study aimed to estimate the basin-wide erosion using the Revised UniversalSoil Loss Equation (RUSLE). The soil erosion parameters included rainfall erosivity mapgenerated from the rainfall data, soil erodibility extracted from the soil map, land cover andmanagement map produced from supervised ...

It is important to form and maintain ridges for air permeability within the upland crop root zone in Saemangeum reclaimed land with poor drainage. The ridge area, however, difficult be maintained due high content of sand silt, which are susceptible water erosion. This study was conducted investigate reduction height maize growth as affected by rainfall characteristics through application mainte...