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EPID Agents Handbook for Soil & Water Conservation

Gowans, K. (Ministry of Agriculture, 1975)

Five years ago (1970) W.D. Ware-Austin, Advisor to the Ethiopia Soil and Water Conservation Division, stated that Ethiopia loses one billion tons of soil every year from erosion. This is equivalent to sixty thousand ...
EPID Agents Handbook for Soil and Water Conservation

Gowans, K. (Ministry of Agriculture, 1975)

Five years ago (1970) W.D. Ware-Austin, Advisor to the Ethiopia Soil and Water Conservation Division, stated that Ethiopia loses one billion tons of soil every year from erosion. This is equivalent to sixty thousand ...
NATIONAL IRRIGATION POLICY AND STRATEGY WORKSHOP DISCUSSION PAPER

OFFICE OF THE NATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR CENTRAL PLANNING (OFFICE OF THE NATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR CENTRAL PLANNING, 1990)

Key agricultural sector objectives listed in the Ten-Year Perspective Plan 1984/85 to 1993/94 include attainment of self - su fficiency in food and establishment of a reserve stock meeting of domestic demand for industrial ...
Evaluation of Government Initiated Participatory Watershed Based Land Resources Management Interventions in Southern Ethiopia: Performance and Sustainability

South Agricultural Research Institute (South Agricultural Research Institute, 2018)

Land degradation has been the major problem in most of the developing world. Ethiopia is believed to be one of the Sub-Saharan African countries seriously affected by land degradation, which accounts for 8% of the global ...
WATER AND ENERGY SECTOR DEVELOPMENT RESEARCHABLE ISSUES/PROBLEMS And LIST OF RESEACH OUTPUTS/INDEX

Tegenu, Alemayehu (Ministry of Water and Energy, 2013)

Ethiopia has an area of about 1,104,000 km2 o f which cultivable land area estimate is between 30 to 40Mha, it receives an average of 850mm o f rainfall per annual. Surface and ground water resources potential are about ...
Proceedings of the 2mland 3rtiAnnual Regional Conferences on Completed Research Activities on Agricultural Water Management, January 22 to February 1, 2013 and October 27 to November 2, 2014, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia Editors Tesfaye Feyisa Tadele A mare Mulugeta Alemayehu

Feyisa, Tesfaye; Amare, Tadele; Alemayehu, Mulugeta (Amhara Agricultural Research Institute (ARARI), 2018)

Deficit irrigation (DT) is very essential in water scarce areas. Efficiency of irrigation can be improved by making the right decision regarding to irrigation scheduling and irrigation application techniques. This experiment ...
Working with Communities for a Better Future The Performances and Lessons of the EPRD

Abreha, Aseffa; Desta, Tesfaye; G. Eyesus, AfeWork; Kassa, Mekonnen (Ethiopian Social Rehabilitation and Development Fund (ESRDF), 2005)

With a total area o f 1.14 million square kilometers and a population of 73 million in 2005, Ethiopia stands as the ninth largest in size and the third most populous country in Africa. Overall population density is ...
Land and the Challenge of Sustainable Development in Ethiopia

Rahmato, Dessalegn; Assefa, Taye (Forum for Social Studies, 2006)

Many have argued that the land system that evolved after the Derg’s radical reforms and that is still in place in the main today has a number of fundamental deficiencies. These are: a) it promotes insecurity of tenure ...
Water Harvesting Practices and Impacts on Livelihood Outcomes in Ethiopia

Ayele, Gezahegn; Ayana, Gemechu; Gedefe, Kiflu; Bekele, Mekonnen; Hordofa, Tilahun; Georgis, Kidane (Ethiopian Development Research Institute, 2006)

Accounting for about 43% o f GDP and employing about 80% of the country's population, agriculture is the base o f Ethiopia's economy. Small-holder farmers dominate the sector, and it is entirely dependant on rain-fed, ...
A MASTER PLAN FOR WATER RESOURCES AND SUPPLIES IN THE CHILALO AWRAJA

CARL-G$STA, WENNER (CHILALO AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT UNIT, 1973)

THE WATER DEVELOPMENT PROGR/'UME, ITS AIMS AND GOALS When the Chilalo Agricultural Development Unit (CADU) was briefed by the Swedish International Development Authority (SIDA) the question of water had to be considered. ...
Soils for Sustainable Development

Erkossa, Teklu (ed.); Menker, Michael (ed.) (Ethiopian Society of Soil Science, 2007)

Soil survey is a sub-discipline of soil science that involves soil mapping, classification and other components of pedology. It identifies the different soil types in a given area, maps their spatial distribution, describes ...
Performance Evaluation of Sub-Surface Drainage System in Melka Sedi

Eticha, Geremew; Abegaz, Fentaw; Tadesse, Girma; Desta, Girma (Institute of Agricultural Research, 1994)

comer of the Melka Sedi Banana Farm, and in the southern part of the Amibara irrigation project (Fig.l). The scheme was constructed in 1983, on 35 ha of land and operation commenced in the same year. Monitoring work was ...
Irrigation and Watershed Management

Atlabachew, Worku (ed.); Mohammed, Mulugeta (ed.); Abegaz, Fentaw (ed.) (Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research, 2018)

Because of population pressure for arable lands in most of coffee growing areas in Ethiopia, coffee cultivation has spread towards marginal areas where water shortage and high temperature constitute significant reduction ...
Integrated Natural Resource Management in Practice: Enabling Communities to Improve Mountain Livelihoods and Landscapes

Amede, Tilahun (ed.); German, Laura (ed.); Rao, Sheila (ed.); Opondo, Chris (ed.); Stroud, Ann (ed.) (African Highlands Initiative, 2006)

During the eighties, heads ofNARS and the IARCs operating in the region expressed concern at the decline in productivity in the highlands o f Eastern and Central Africa in spite o f adequate rainfall and relatively heavy ...
AN ASSESSMENT OF ETHIOPIA'S MANPOWER REQUIREMENTS AND RESOURCES FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT 1961 -70 EC

The Manpower Research and Statistics Section (MINISTRY OF NATIONAL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AND SOCIAL AFFAIRS DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR, 1963)

The purpose o f this study is to examine Ethiopia’s requirements for different categories o f manpower in the light o f the government’s plans for economic development, and to establish on the basis of these requiremen ...
Assistance to Land Use Planning Ethiopia Land evaluation

Ridgway, R.B. (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 1982)

As part of the project activities in the preparation of a draft national master land use plan, a land evaluation was conducted at the rapid reconnaissance scale. The land evaluation integrates a number of the outputs of ...
THE DEVELOPMENT OF A CHAIN AND WASHER PUMP FOR SMALL SCALE IRRIGATION

PEARSON, H.S.; KEBEDE, ARAYA (INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH, 1977)

In 1976 it was decided to study and develop suitable low l i f t water punjjo for small scale irrigation . The basic crite ria for such pumps was that they should be suitable for local manufacture,cheap to produce, ...
Challenges of Land Degradation to Agriculture in Ethiopia

Amede, Tilahun (ed.); Zewdie, Eylachew (ed.) (Ethiopian Society of Soil Science, 2003)

Response of faba bean ( Vicia faba L.) and field pea (Pisum sativum L.) to phosphate fertilizer on dila and dimile soils (Nitosols), respectively, was determined for three consecutive years (1999-2001) in Wolmera area. ...
Best practices and technologies for small scale agricultural water management in Ethiopia

S. B, Awulachew (ed.); M., Menker (ed.); D., Abesha (ed.); T., Atnafe (ed.); Y., Wondimkun (ed.) (Ethiopian Ministry of Water Resources, 2006)

Ethiopia is one of the largest countries in Africa. Covering a land area of 1.13 million km \ it is the second most populous country in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) (and third on the continent) approaching 80 million people. ...
MELKA SADI PILOT DRAINAGE SCHEME FINAL REPORT

SIR WILLIAM HALCROW & PARTNER (WATER RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY, 1986)

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