The Atacama Desert is among the driest places on Earth, yet ancient agricultural systems are present in region. Here, we a study of terraced soils high-altitude eastern margin northern Chile, mainly dating to Late Intermediate Period (ca. 950–1400 AD) and Inka period 1400–1536 AD). Terraced fields were compartmentalized distribute limited irrigation water originating from springs. Natural used ...

Agricultural terraces are an important element of the Italian landscape. However, abandonment agricultural areas and increase in frequency destructive rainfall events has made it mandatory to conservation efforts reduce hydrological risks. This requires development new approaches capable identifying mapping failed or prone-to-fail over large areas. The present work focuses on a more cost-effect...

Climate-smart practices that have added benefits of improving agricultural productivity are an imperative for smallholder farming. However, there few insights into how climate-smart adaptation influence their technical (in)efficiency. Thus, the objective this study was to evaluate impact smallholders’ on crop production efficiency (TE) in Lemo district southern Ethiopia. We used focus group dis...

gully erosion has an important role in fars province due to sediment production and enormous damages to land, roads and infrastructures. in this research, 15 gullies were selected to measure their morphometric characteristics. the length, depth, top and bottom width and volume of gully erosion were then measured. influential factors on the sediment production and gully development were analyzed...

Agriculture is often seen as conservative in the sense that it changes only slowly. There are good reasons why this change is slow: agriculture is a complex activity that has to be adapted to particular environmental conditions, there must be no risk to food for the family, and the farmer has to perceive a material and usually financial benefit of any changes. It is nevertheless reasonable to a...

Soil conservation practices have been widely implemented on the Loess Plateau to reduce severe soil erosion in north-central China over the past three decades. However, the hydrologic impacts of these practices are not well documented and understood. The objective of this study was to examine how water yield has changed after implementing soil conservation practices that resulted in changes in ...

The coast of the provinces of Granada and Malaga (SE Spain) are economically important areas for the subtropical fruit cultivation. The climate is characterized by heavy periodic rainfall, which is one of the main factors responsible for soil erosion in this agroecosystem. However, the erosion depends on a host of factors, including soil, topography, cropping and soilconservation techniques. Th...

The Lesti sub-watershed area is mostly steep mountain slopes, when the rain fall it carries erosion and sediment material. This study aims to discover trend of land-use changes; measure amount rate Erosion Hazard Levels; obtain sediment-transport actual quantity based on SWAT application; scatter land critical-level; determine strategy for implementing conservation controlling rates. Level were...