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This book, Biological Soil & Water Conservation: The Vetiver-grass as an Example, is one example.
The book is a simple orientation about using vetiver Grass as a straightforward method of applying biological soil and water conservation methods in smallholder farmers' environments. The focus is mainly on African environments, from which he collects most of his examples, but there are also examples from Iraqi Kurdistan, Iran, India, Sri Lanka and Sweden.
The material and the level are meant to be suitable as an orientation and introduction for non-specialist students in, for example, Physical and Human Geography, Geology, and Sustainability Studies, and as a general background for various project administrators who need an elementary introduction to biological soil and water conservation methods.
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The Author, H. Jonas Åkerman, is an Associate professor emeritus at the Dept. of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science at Lund University, Sweden, where he has been active since 1967. Parallel with his main research focus on permafrost and climatic change in Arctic and Alpine environments, he has been active with applied Physical Geography in development projects within the agricultural and rural development sector.
H. Jonas Åkerman is the Secretary and board member of the Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography (SSAG). He is a Board member of the Swedish National Committee for Geography within the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
Through ten years of long-term assignments in Tamil Nadu, India, and Africa within projects concerning environmental management and development issues, like agriculture, agroforestry, soil erosion and conservation, and general rural development, he has a wide and long international experience. Assignments as technical adviser within ministries of Agriculture in India, Lesotho, and Zambia, and Environment in Kenya and Zambia, and project manager within UN, Sida/SAREC & SADCC financed projects have provided him with a wide background on practical applied development issues from the field of Soil and Water Conservation and from the management side of sustainable development issues in rural areas. His specific interests include the role of smallholder and subsistence farmers as main actors in sustainable rural development, processes, environmentally sound and sustainable land use, environmental impact assessment, training and extension issues, etc.
