| dc.description.abstract | Over the past three decades, agricultural watersheds in semi-arid Kenya
have experienced some rapid decline in soil and crop productivity due to severe soil
erosion, low soil water, low soil fertility and high soil crusting and compaction. Thus, the
management of these watersheds requires some good understanding of agricultural
drought, stratification of production zones according to slope, and suitable conservation
options that include in-situ water conservation
and runoff utilization. The pl
anning of
watershed conservation requires the application of runoff models in the selection of
interventions that reduce upstream flood magnitude and downstream sedimentation.
Successful interventions can be introduced under
enabling conditions to farmers at
various hierarchical policy levels. A few of these enabling conditions that are
elaborated upon include agricultural policy, focus on smallholder agriculture and public-
community partnerships. | en |
