Soil conservation

Policy and legal enabling conditions for sustainable agriculture

2026 Hannam, Ian | Mezzacapo, Enrico | Chicoma, Jose L. |

The dominant model for agricultural development has not adequately considered environmental and social externalities, leading to their insufficient integration into decision-making processes that shape agriculture and food systems. There is a critical need for comprehensive regulation of the agricultural sector to design and implement concrete transition pathways towards more sustainable agriculture and food systems at various scales,

Accounting for the ecological services of India's forests

2006 Kumar, Pushpam | Sanyal, Sanjeev | Sinha, Rajiv | Sukhdev, Pavan |

Though various studies and scientific assessments highlight the contribution of the forestry sector in terms of various ecosystem services, not much work has been initiated on the valuation of and the accounting for the ecological functions of forest ecosystems. In this monograph, the missing contributions of forests have been accounted for and monetized for 2002/03 in terms of the following ecological benefits: prevention of soil erosion, augmentation of groundwater, and flood control.

More people, more trees : environmental recovery in Africa = plus de gens, plus d'arbres : le rétablissement de l'environnement en Afrique

2010 Critchley, Will |
Over 20 years ago, concerned farmers’ groups in Kenya and Burkina Faso began to adopt new measures to conserve soil and water and to re-establish trees in their fields. Two videos, "Looking after our Land" and "Building on Traditions", recorded the new participatory approaches for land conservation being developed at that time in various countries.

International journal of agricultural sustainability

Curriculum for training in soil and water conservation in Kenya

1994 Muturi, Stachys N. | Muya, Fabian S. |
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