Soil erosion and conservation as affcted by land use and land tenure, El Pital Watershed, Nicaragua /
a high erosion risk, there is a need to design and implement
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| Format: | Thesis eBook |
| Language: | English |
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1997.
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| Online Access: | Link to OAKTrust copy |
| Summary: | a high erosion risk, there is a need to design and implement adoption of soil conservation practices. Because the trend and because the trend on small farms is to select crops with and redistributed to many peasant families. Also the annual crop production is greatest on the steep lands where associated with the agrarian reform activities of the 1980's, available for settlement. Most of the institutions working because small farms tend to emphasize production of annual conditions in 1996, indicates that erosion has increased contributed to the proliferation of smaller fanning units. crop with high cover characteristics, such as coffee. The crops necessary to meet the subsistence needs of the farm during which many of the large land-holdings were confiscated economic considerations, which make these lands most erosion are increasingly evident. Analysis of aerial Erosion by water is a serious problem threatening the erosion risk because the soil is more exposed to raindrop expected geologic "natural" erosion rate for the area. This extension activities do make a significant difference in family. Annual crop production is a land use that has a high farms on the steep land is a function of political and flow than if the land use was forest, range, or a perennial greater on these farms than on the lands that were impact and there is less vegetative obstruction to overland in the watershed to encourage soil conservation have targeted increasing population and inheritance customs have photographs taken in 1968 and 1987, and comparing them with programs that enhance adoption of soil conservation Small farming units (< 4 ha) are linked to increased erosion sustainability of steep land agricultural production technologies by these small farmers. the beneficiaries of agrarian reform. The result has been the erosion risk is naturally high. The increase of small the many regions within Nicaragua where the effects of throughout the tropics. The El Pital watershed is typical of throughout this period and is substantially above the traditionally privately owned. This illustrates that trend is associated with increased fragmentation of farms trend within the watershed toward increased emphasis on within the watershed is toward an increase in small farms, |
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| Item Description: | "Major subject: Rangeland Ecology and Management". Library's copy imperfect: Vita lacking. Vita. |
| Physical Description: | xix, 147 leaves : illustrations ; 28 cm. Also available online. Issued also on microfiche from Lange Micrographics. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references: pages 124-129. |