Linking soil erosion to on-site financial cost: Lessons from watersheds in the Blue Nile basin

Solid Earth

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 765-774

  Erkossa, T ^a   Wudneh, A ^b   Desalegn, B ^c   Taye, G ^d  

^a INTERNATIONAL WATER MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE   (Ethiopia)

^b MADDA WALABU UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^c MEKELLE UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^d BAHIR DAR UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL WASTES; AGRICULTURE; CROPS; EROSION; FINANCE; GRAIN (AGRICULTURAL PRODUCT); LOSSES; NUTRIENTS; PLANTS (BOTANY); RUNOFF; SEDIMENTS; SOIL CONSERVATION; SOILS; WATER CONSERVATION; WATERSHEDS;

AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH; FINANCIAL COSTS; PLANT NUTRIENTS; PRODUCTIVITY CHANGES; RESPONSE FUNCTIONS; RUNOFF AND SEDIMENTS; SEDIMENT CONCENTRATION; YIELD REDUCTION;

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CROP PRODUCTION; CROP YIELD; MAIZE; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; RAINFALL; RUNOFF; SOIL EROSION; WATERSHED;

BLUE NILE BASIN; ETHIOPIA; NILE BASIN;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84934914334     PISSN: 18699510     EISSN: 18699529     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/se-6-765-2015     Document Type: Article

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