Mitigating land degradation and improving livelihoods : an integrated watershed approach / edited by Feras Ziadat and Wondimu Bayu.

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:	Earthscan studies in natural resource management.
Corporate Authors:	Austrian Development Agency International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas Amhara Agricultural Research Institute
Other Authors:	Ziadat, Feras Wondimu Bayu
Language:	English
Published:	London ; New York : Routledge, 2015.
Series:	Earthscan studies in natural resource management.
Subjects:	Land degradation > Environmental aspects. Nature > Effect of human beings on. Gumara-Maksegnit Watershed (Ethiopia) Land degradation > Environmental aspects > Ethiopia > North Gondar Administrative Zone. Nature > Effect of human beings on > Ethiopia > North Gondar Administrative Zone.
Physical Description:	xvi, 262 pages : color illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Format:	Book

Contents:

Part 1: Combating land degradation, water harvesting and supplemental irrigation: 1. Introduction
2. Selection and characterization of the Gumara-Maksegnit watershed research site, North Gondar zone, Ethiopia
3. Socio-economic characterization of the Gumara-Maksegnit watershed
4. Predicting soil attributes for environmental modelling
5. Assessment of forest cover change and its environmental impacts using multi-temporal and multi-spectral satellite images
6. Crop type identification using multi-temporal and multi-spectral satellite images
7. Assessment of current land use and potential soil and water conservation measures on surface run-off and sediment yield
8. Monitoring of surface run-off and soil erosion processes
9. Demonstration and evaluation of water harvesting and supplementary irrigation to improve agricultural productivity
Part 2: Improving land productivity: 10. Performance evaluation of bread wheat varieties
11. Chickpea participatory variety selection for the vertisol of the watershed
12. Participatory variety selection of improved food barley varieties
13. Demonstration and promotion of improved food barley, bread wheat and faba bean technologies
14. Effect of compost and chemical fertilizer on wheat production and soil properties
15. On-farm evaluation and demonstration of animal drawn mouldboard and Gavin ploughs
16 Participatory evaluation of mobile tree nursery
Part 3: Livestock and forage improvement
17 Characterization of the goat population and breeding practices of goat owners
18 Adaptability of vetch (Vicia spp).