Mitigating Land Degradation and Improving Livelihoods
An Integrated Watershed Approach
$136.43
- Paperback
280 pages
- Release Date
23 January 2019
Summary
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…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780367173241 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0367173247 |
| Author: | Feras Ziadat |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Imprint: | Routledge |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 280 |
| Release Date: | 23 January 2019 |
| Weight: | 408g |
| Dimensions: | 156mm x 234mm |
| Series: | Earthscan Studies in Natural Resource Management |
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Feras Ziadat
Feras Ziadat is Soil Management and Partnership Officer in the Land and Water Division (NRL) of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Rome, Italy. Previously he was a Senior Scientist at the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA). Wondimu Bayu is the ‘Watershed Research’ National Project Coordinator in the Integrated Water and Land Management Program (IWLMP) at ICARDA, based in Bahir Dar, Ethiopia.
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