Financial viability of soil and water conservation technologies in northwestern Ethiopian highlands

Applied Geography

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 139-149

  Teshome, Akalu ^a,b   Rolker, Dirk ^a   de Graaff, Jan ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Amhara Region Agricultural Research Institute   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

Cost benefit analysis (CBA); Soil and water conservation (SWC); Soil erosion

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; HOUSEHOLD SURVEY; PROFITABILITY; RURAL DEVELOPMENT; SOIL CONSERVATION; SOIL EROSION; WATER TECHNOLOGY; WATERSHED;

ETHIOPIA;

EID: 84870933167     PISSN: 01436228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2012.11.007     Document Type: Article

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