Desire for Greener Land

Human Environment
Cropland per household
(ha)
10,000
Implementation activities, inputs and costs
Establishment activities
Land user: individual, small- to medium-scale,
disadvantaged land users
Population density: 10-50 persons/km 2
Annual population growth: 0.5% - 1%
Land ownership: individual, titled
Land use rights: individual
Water use rights: individual
Relative level of wealth: poor – 50% of poor land
users own 20% of the total land area
1. Building the fences (providing wooden material, excavations,
terracing)
Maintenance/recurrent activities
SLM Technology: Woven wood fences, Turkey DESIRE – WOCAT 2012
Importance of off-farm income: as high as 30% of
all income
Access to service and infrastructure: low:
employment, health, technical assistance;
moderate: market, energy, drinking water and
sanitation, financial services; education
Market orientation: mixed (subsistence and
commercial)
Technical details
Plan of the site implementation in Eskişehir. Solid
lines depict contours at 1 m intervals.
The implementation area (at the centre of the Figure
on the left) has a gradient of 10 %. Fence spacing is
30 m and each fence is 60 m long. Posts provide the
strength of the structure and are inserted up to 30
cm into the ground. Branches are woven between
the posts. Eroded soil trapped on the upslope side
produces an earth bank.
Establishment inputs and costs per ha
Inputs Costs (US$) % met by
land user
Labour 550 10
Construction material
(wood)
600 0
Other
- transportation, oil
200 90
TOTAL 1350 17
Maintenance/recurrent inputs and costs per ha per year
1. Repair of fences Inputs Costs (US$) % met by
land user
Labour 100 100
Construction material 10 100
TOTAL 110 100
Remarks:
In the account above, we do not consider regular cropping activities (ploughing, tillage, fertilization etc.) but only the basic costs of the new
technology.
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