Desire for Greener Land

IV Up-scaling SLM strategies
Some results for year-after-year terraced land.
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The technology is applicable on land under arable
or tree crops on slopes higher than 2%.
Without technology
The maps above show soil erosion and indicate that even in
the initial years of application, erosion is reduced (although
the level remains fairly high). In the long term erosion would
decrease further when ground cover is improved. The figure
below shows that the technology is not profitable in the
short term (up to at least 10 years). However, the technology
was found to be profitable in the area in the long term
(20 years).
Net present value after 10 years
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V Disseminating the information
Evaluation of remediation options with stakeholders
The workshop was held with two sessions. The first session
was held on 22 June 2011 with local farmers, including
six village heads. The farmers who carried out monitoring
of soil erosion and soil water and conducted an economic
survey were also present. The second half of the workshop
was conducted with policy makers at the county level on 23
June 2011. Additional interviews are planned with selected
Government departments and experts in the following
months to further disseminate project findings.
Priority remediation strategies selected in the initial stakeholder
workshop were ranked in the same order after
participants had been presented with evidence from field
trials and modelling. The three strategies prioritised during
the initial workshop are clearly the most important options
in this region given their benefits in relation to ecological,
economic and socio-cultural criteria. This was supported by
field trial results.
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