Mitigating Land Degradation and Improving Livelihoods - An Integrated Watershed Approach

The research presented in this book demonstrates how an integrated 'systems' approach to farming in the watershed context increases the effectiveness of a production system and improves people's livelihoods. It takes an integrated approach, using one watershed in Ethiopia as a 'laboratory' or model case study to focus on the interaction and interdependence between land, water, crops, soil, water harvesting, supplemental irrigation, forestry, socio-economic aspects, livestock and farm tools.

Product details

• Authors: Feras Ziadat
• Assisted by: Feras Ziadat (Editor), Ziadat Feras (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.08.2015
• EAN: 9781138785182
• ISBN: 978-1-138-78518-2
• No. of pages: 262
• Series: Earthscan Studies in Natural Resource Management
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; NATURE / Ecology, Africa, environmental science, engineering & technology, Regional Studies, Environmental Management, Regional / International studies, Hydrology & the hydrosphere, Agricultural science, Physical geography & topography, Human Geography, Development Studies, Regional Geography, Environmental science, engineering and technology, Agriculture & Related Industries, Agribusiness and primary industries, Agronomy & crop production, Soil science, sedimentology, Physical geography and topography, Hydrology and the hydrosphere, Agronomy and crop production, Sedimentology and pedology