| dc.creator | Westley, Sidney B. | |
| dc.date | 2011-05-04T13:29:08Z | |
| dc.date | 2011-05-04T13:29:08Z | |
| dc.date | 1978 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2012-11-12T17:56:07Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2012-11-12T17:56:07Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 12-11-12 | |
| dc.identifier | Westley, Sidney B. (1978) Soil and water conservation in Kenya: Report of a Workshop held at the Univeristy of Naibori 21- 23 September, 1977. Occasional Paper 27, Nairobi: Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi | |
| dc.identifier | http://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/123456789/796 | |
| dc.identifier | 319146 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke:8080/handle/123456789/2022 | |
| dc.description | A Workshop on Soil and Water Conservation was held at the University
of Nairobi from 2l to 23 September 1977, sponsored by the Land and Farm
Management Division of the Ministry of Agriculture and the Departments of
Agricultural Engineering of the University and Egerton College. The objectives
of this workshop were:-
1. To bring together research workers, teachers, extension officers
and others who are concerned with problems of soil and water conservation,
2. To exchange technical information and discuss problems in
assessing needs and in planning, implementing and evaluating conservation
systems, and
3. To identify priorities for research and to seek ways to increase
the effectiveness and relevance of teaching.
In keeping with these objectives, a number of papers were presented
at the workshop and are included in full in this report. Topics covered
include, among others, experiments with various cropping systems and tillage
methods to determine which patterns of land use minimise soil loss methods
for reclaiming swampy or badly eroding land, studies of small experimental
catchment areas, the physical and social problems involved in carrying out
conservation programmes in semi-arid areas, and the Ministry of Agriculture's
plans for a major soil and water conservation programme.
In addition to these discussions, field trips were conducted to
Machakos and Murang'a which are described in this report, and a list of
recommendations was drafted which is also included. | |
| dc.language | en | |
| dc.publisher | Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi | |
| dc.relation | Occasional Paper;27 | |
| dc.rights | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ | |
| dc.rights | Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi | |
| dc.subject | Water | |
| dc.subject | Environment | |
| dc.subject | Agriculture | |
| dc.title | Soil and water conservation in Kenya: Report of a Workshop held at the Univeristy of Naibori 21- 23 September, 1977 | |
| dc.type | Series paper (non-IDS) | |
