Ethiopian highlands
Predicting Reference Evaporation for the Ethiopian Highlands
... the Ethiopian highlands where the density of weather station is low [27] [28] and often only meas- ure temperature and ...the Ethiopian highlands, all the meteorological va- riables were ...
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Linking selected soil properties to land use and hillslope – A watershed case study in the Ethiopian Highlands
... the Ethiopian Highlands, at which large areas of the landscape still have not been explored in detail; however, the opportunity of linking soil specific case study results with other aspects of wa- tershed ...
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Economics of Soil Conservation Adoption in High-Rainfall Areas of the Ethiopian Highlands
... This study measures the impact of fanya juu bunds (an important soil and water conservation technology and the most popular type of contour bund in east Africa) on the value of crop production in a high-rainfall area in ...
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Morphological dynamics of gully systems in the subhumid Ethiopian Highlands: the Debre Mawi watershed
... (sub)humid Ethiopian High- lands, where gullies are formed in saturated Vertisol areas and where water often bypasses the check dams (Dagnew et ...humid Ethiopian Highlands regions, where interflow ...
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Characteristics of Nitisol profiles as affected by land use type and slope class in some Ethiopian highlands
... central highlands of Ethiopia reported significantly higher mean values of organic matter, TN and exchangeable bases in the lower slope than in the upper ...the Ethiopian highlands thus impinging up ...
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Effect of Gully Headcut Treatment on Sediment Load and Gully Expansion in the Sub Humid Ethiopian Highlands
... Ethiopian highlands since 1970s under the umbrella of the World Food Program ‘Food for Work’ [1]. However, this practice has only been sustainable as long as the program was actively engaged. One of the ...
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Cropping sequence and nitrogen fertilizer effects on the productivity and quality of malting barley and soil fertility in the Ethiopian highlands
... To maximize yield and quality of malting barley, it has been shown that N management practices should be adjusted according to anticipated availability of water and N in the soil (McKenzie et al. 2005) and the needs of ...
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Ground Water Harvesting through Traditional Water Harvesting Technology: Adopting Himalayan Practices in Ethiopian Highlands
... The fresh water system is most critical for sustainability of life. In present days the world is facing a shortage of potable water. Though Ethiopia is known as “The water tower of East Africa” yet it is facing severe ...
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Comparing CFSR and conventional weather data for discharge and soil loss modelling with SWAT in small catchments in the Ethiopian Highlands
... the Ethiopian Highlands has not been adequately investigated ...the Ethiopian context on the im- pact of rainfall data on streamflow ...the Ethiopian con- text (De Almeida Bressiani et ...
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Amelioration of Acidic Soil to Increase Tef (Eragrostis tef (Zucc) Trotter) Yield on Smallholder Farmer Fields in Ethiopian Highlands
... of Ethiopian highlands has been declining mainly due to high intensity of acidic soil thus amelioration is vital to improve soil properties and crop ...in Ethiopian highlands in general and in ...
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Grain Yield Response of Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor) to Tied Ridges and Planting Methods on Entisols and Vertisols of Alemaya Area, Eastern Ethiopian Highlands
... eastern Ethiopian highlands at the Alemaya University Research ...these highlands revealed a bi-modal pattern with small rains in March-May and big rains in ...
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Groundwater Quality in an Upland Agricultural Watershed in the Sub Humid Ethiopian Highlands
... The study was conducted in the 1128 ha Tikur-Wuha watershed, situated in the upper Lake Tana basin of the Ethiopian highlands (Figure 1). Rainfall pattern of the watershed is mono-modal. More than 85% of ...
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Technical Efficiency of Smallholder Dairy Farmers in the Central Ethiopian Highlands
... We analyzed the inefficiency of smallholder dairy producers in the central Ethiopian highlands with the stochastic production frontier technique. Our results confirm the existence of systematic inefficiency ...
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An efficient semi distributed hillslope erosion model for the subhumid Ethiopian Highlands
... Abstract. Erosion modeling has been generally scaling up from plot scale but not based on landscape topographic po- sition, which is a main variable in saturation excess runoff. In addition, predicting sediment loss in ...
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Environmental Degradation and Management in Ethiopian Highlands: Review of Lessons Learned
... The highlands of Ethiopia offer excellent conditions for natural diversity and human development, be it on the one hand as the ‘cradle of mankind’ with early hominids some 3 ‐ 4 million years ago, or on the other ...
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Suspended sediment concentration–discharge relationships in the (sub ) humid Ethiopian highlands
... is related to the discharge per unit area to the 0.4 power (Ciesiolka et al., 1995; Yu et al., 1997; Tilahun et al., 2011). Our results concerning the rating curves agree partially with studies in Israel and India that ...
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Modeling streamflow and sediment using SWAT in Ethiopian Highlands
... the Ethiopian Highlands, erratic and intensive rainfalls during the rainy season generate several peak runoff events (Figure 6), exposing steep sloped areas to potentially severe soil ...
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Resource allocation in traditional agriculture in the Ethiopian highlands : a case study
... 23 43 Table 4-1 : Summary of Model Specification Table 4-2: Test of significance and 1981 observations Table 4-3: Test of significance in technical efficiency 48 Table 5-1 : Estimates of[r] ...
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PARADOXICAL ROLE OF CROP RESIDUE IN THE AGRICULTURE OF ETHIOPIAN HIGHLANDS: A REVIEW
... The highlands of Ethiopia hold about 95 per cent of the cropped area and two-thirds of the livestock population, 75-80 per cent each of the national cattle and sheep flock and about 30 per cent of the national ...
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Production efficiency in Peasant Agriculture: The Case of Mixed Farming System in the Ethiopian Highlands
... Peasants employ several inputs in the production of crop and livestock outputs. Farm inputs include traditional (e.g. land and labour) or new technologies. Research in the peasant agriculture has focused on the impact of ...
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