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Assessment<br />

Impacts of the Technology<br />

Production and socio-economic benefits Production and socio-economic disadvantages<br />

increased crop yield<br />

reduced risk of production failure<br />

increased farm income<br />

increased production area<br />

loss of grazing land<br />

Socio-cultural benefits Socio-cultural disadvantages<br />

improved conservation / erosion knowledge<br />

improved food security / self sufficiency<br />

Ecological benefits Ecological disadvantages<br />

improved harvesting / collection of water<br />

reduced surface runoff<br />

reduced hazard towards adverse events<br />

reduced soil loss / erosion<br />

recharge of groundwater table aquifer<br />

increased evaporation<br />

Off-site benefits Off-site disadvantages<br />

increased water availability<br />

reduced downstream flooding<br />

reduced downstream siltation<br />

reduced damage on public / private infrastructure<br />

Contribution to human well-being/livelihoods<br />

Benefits/costs according to land user<br />

Acceptance/adoption:<br />

35% of land user families have implemented the technology with external material support.<br />

65% of land user families have implemented the technology voluntary.<br />

There is a strong trend towards (growing) spontaneous adoption of the technology.<br />

Concluding statements<br />

reduced river flows (only during floods)<br />

reduced sediment yields<br />

Benefits compared with costs short-term: long-term:<br />

Establishment negative very positive<br />

Maintenance/recurrent positive very positive<br />

Strengths and how to sustain/improve Weaknesses and how to overcome<br />

This technique allows a rapid expansion of cropping lands in the<br />

piedmont and flat areas encourage maintenance of existing<br />

structure<br />

Allows crop production in very dry environments (with less than 200<br />

mm of rainfall) encourage maintenance of existing structure<br />

Collects and accumulates water, soil and nutrients behind the tabia<br />

and makes it available to crops encourage maintenance of<br />

existing structure<br />

Reduced damage by flooding encourage maintenance of existing<br />

structure<br />

Risks related to the climatic changes it needs to be combined<br />

with supplementary irrigation<br />

Risk of local know-how disappearance training of new<br />

generations<br />

<strong>Land</strong> ownership fragmentation agrarian re<strong>for</strong>m<br />

Productivity of the land is very low development of alternative<br />

income generation activities<br />

Drought spells supplementary irrigation<br />

Expansion is done at the expense of natural grazing land<br />

Key reference(s): Alaya, K., Viertmann, W., Waibel, Th. 1993. Les tabias. Imprimerie Arabe de Tunisie, Tunis, Tunisia. 192 pp., Genin, D., Guillaume, H.,<br />

Ouessar, M., Ouled Belgacem, A., Romagny, B., Sghaier, M., Taamallah, H. (eds) 2006. Entre la désertification et le développement: la Jeffara tunisienne. CERES,<br />

Tunis, 351 pp.<br />

Contact person(s): Ouessar Mohamed (Med.Ouessar@ira.agrinet.tn), Chniter Mongi, Insitut des Régions Arides, 4119 Medenine, Tunisia<br />

116 DESIRE – WOCAT <strong>Desire</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>Greener</strong> <strong>Land</strong>

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