What is Desertification? Desertification (or desertization) is the degradation of land in arid, semi arid and dry sub-humid areas resulting primarily from human activities…
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1. PresenterDr Colin Chartres Director General, International Water Management InstituteTopic“About CGIAR* Research Program #5: water, land and ecosystems”Date 12.30pm,…
1. A global NRM partnership 2. The Challenge – sustainable intensification• To learn how to intensify farmingactivities, expand agricultural areas andrestore degraded…
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Slide 1 ESTIMATION OF SOIL USING GIS:A CASE STUDY OF TAITA HILLS PRESENTER:EVANS ARABU UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI. Slide 2 OBJECTIVES 1) Erosion modeling with GIS to focus on…
Slide 1 Land Degradation Due to Agriculture Part 2:Soil Erosion Fall 2012, Lecture 6 Slide 2 Regolith Rocks are broken into smaller and smaller pieces by physical weathering…