This study evaluated the dynamics of urban expansion and its impacts on land use/land
cover change and livelihoods of small-scale farmers living near the urban fringe of Bahir Dar …

Biochar has shown promise for restoring soil hydraulic properties. However, biochar
production could be expensive in the developing world, while charcoal is widely available …

Empirical studies point to reduced tillage as a means to increase yields and reverse land
degradation. A relatively neglected avenue of research concerns why farmers increase …

We analyse the impact of intensity of tillage on wheat productivity and risk exposure using
panel household‐plot level data from Ethiopia. In order to control for selection bias, we …

There is a growing realization that gender matters in African agriculture. However, much of
the present scholarly and policy debate concerning gender and farming is rather lacking …

Abstract All over Dogu'a Tembien, farmlands appear to be terraced, though there is no
evidence of large-scale manual or mechanical levelling of the land, not now and not in the …

At the start of the research by the different teams at Mekelle University, virtually nothing was
known on the ecology of the reservoirs in Tigray, most of which were constructed in the …

Traditionally, livelihood security among smallholder farmers in Ethiopia is strongly
dependent on rainfed agriculture, with which over 95% of the food is produced …

Ethiopian farmers have been using an ox-drawn breaking plough, known as ard plough–
maresha, for thousands of years. Maresha is a pointed, steel-tipped tine attached to a …

A frictional-cohesive model was implemented to simulate the interaction between soil and
tillage tool using the Discrete Element Method. The model parameters are defined based on …