Soil erosion and conservation in global agriculture

Land Use and Soil Resources

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 41-71

  Hurni, Hans ^a   Herweg, Karl ^b   Portner, Brigitte ^a   Liniger, Hanspeter ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b MEKELLE UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^c University of Bonn ^*

Author keywords

poverty; small scale farming; soil conservation; soil degradation; Soil erosion; sustainable land management; water conservation

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960510007     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-6778-5_4     Document Type: Chapter

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