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Turkey – Karapinar<br />

The Karapinar area is used <strong>for</strong> growing cereals and grazing. The intensity of (irrigated) cereal production is increasing. In<br />

recent years irrigated agriculture has rapidly expanded due to new market pressures, developing techniques and subsidies,<br />

as a result ground water levels have dropped dramatically. The area is affected by wind erosion, the grazing area to a larger<br />

extent than the cropped land. Current conservation measures include the change of management and intensity level in the<br />

area with grazing and soil surface treatment and increased vegetation cover in the cropland. These measures are applied<br />

over large parts of the pasture land (>60%) and of the cropland (>40%), but the effectiveness is low, especially in the cropland.<br />

Drip irrigation is proposed and documented in this book as an SLM technology <strong>for</strong> the cropland to save groundwater.<br />

Maps of degradation and SLM DESIRE – WOCAT 2012<br />

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