Assessment of past and present soil conservation initiatives in Nigeria, West Africa

Soil conservation has a long tradition in West Africa and various on-farm and off-farm soil conservation technologies already exist. An extensive literature review has shown that mulching, crop management and conservation tillage are adequate measures for combating soil degradative processes such as...

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Autores principales: Junge, B., Deji, O.F., Abaidoo, Robert C., Chikoye, David, Stahr, Karl
Formato: Conference Paper
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: Tropentag 2007
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/90613
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author Junge, B.
Deji, O.F.
Abaidoo, Robert C.
Chikoye, David
Stahr, Karl
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description Soil conservation has a long tradition in West Africa and various on-farm and off-farm soil conservation technologies already exist. An extensive literature review has shown that mulching, crop management and conservation tillage are adequate measures for combating soil degradative processes such as soil loss in the savanna of Nigeria. Most farmers are in general aware of environmental problems but adopt only technologies which are compatible with the present farming system and whose costs of installation and maintenance are low. As education and training on soil conservation seem to increase the adoption of appropriate technologies, the work of extension agencies is important.
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spelling CGSpace906132023-08-03T08:11:17Z Assessment of past and present soil conservation initiatives in Nigeria, West Africa Junge, B. Deji, O.F. Abaidoo, Robert C. Chikoye, David Stahr, Karl soil conservation crop management conservation agriculture appropriate technology soil erosion Soil conservation has a long tradition in West Africa and various on-farm and off-farm soil conservation technologies already exist. An extensive literature review has shown that mulching, crop management and conservation tillage are adequate measures for combating soil degradative processes such as soil loss in the savanna of Nigeria. Most farmers are in general aware of environmental problems but adopt only technologies which are compatible with the present farming system and whose costs of installation and maintenance are low. As education and training on soil conservation seem to increase the adoption of appropriate technologies, the work of extension agencies is important. 2007 2018-01-29T10:09:47Z 2018-01-29T10:09:47Z Conference Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/90613 en Open Access application/pdf Tropentag Junge, B., Deji, O., Abaidoo, R., Chikoye, D. & Stahr, K. (2007, October). Assessment of past and present soil conservation initiatives in Nigeria, West Africa. In Proceedings of the Tropentag 2007 Conference on International Agricultural Research for Development (pp. 1-4).
spellingShingle soil conservation
crop management
conservation agriculture
appropriate technology
soil erosion
Junge, B.
Deji, O.F.
Abaidoo, Robert C.
Chikoye, David
Stahr, Karl
Assessment of past and present soil conservation initiatives in Nigeria, West Africa
title Assessment of past and present soil conservation initiatives in Nigeria, West Africa
title_full Assessment of past and present soil conservation initiatives in Nigeria, West Africa
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title_full_unstemmed Assessment of past and present soil conservation initiatives in Nigeria, West Africa
title_short Assessment of past and present soil conservation initiatives in Nigeria, West Africa
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topic soil conservation
crop management
conservation agriculture
appropriate technology
soil erosion
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/90613
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