Better Land Husbandry: Re-Thinking Approaches to Land Improvement and the Conservation of Water and Soil

Found at: https://hdl.handle.net/10535/3967
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Type:	Working Paper
Author:	Shaxson, Francis; Tiffen, Mary; Wood, Adrian; Turton, Cathryn
Date:	1997
Agency:	Overseas Development Institute, London
Series:	Natural Resource Perspectives, no. 19
URI:	https://hdl.handle.net/10535/3967
Sector:	Water Resource & Irrigation Land Tenure & Use
Region:	Africa
Subject(s):	conservation land tenure and use soil
Abstract:	"Soil erosion has conventionally been perceived as the chief cause of land degradation, yet the limited effectiveness and poor uptake of widely promoted physical and biological anti-erosion methods challenges this logic. An alternative perception focusing on prior land damage - notably to soil cover, architecture and fertility - permits an holistic, farmer-centred approach which has generated positive response to date."

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