Objective
The main objectives are as follows:
* To develop improved methodologies for promoting sustainable soil-water management practices in semi-arid regions by research targeted in Tanzania and Uganda.
* To develop a methodology for combining scientific and indigenous knowledge of land resources, using a GIS-based information system as a research tool, for improved transfer of the results of participatory soil-water management research.
* To develop a methodology for deriving scientifically robust and replicable results from participatory on-farm research in soil-water management.
Expected Outcome
The experience of this research programme in developing a methodology for combining scientific and indigenous knowledge of land resources using GIS as an integration domain will be consolidated in a manual which will provide a sound basis for transferring the methodology more widely. This, when combined with the results of the on-farm participatory research, will provide a methodology for a more informed and successful transfer to other semi-arid areas of improved soil-water management strategies/technologies of proven local relevance and uptake. This approach will have applications both at the district planning level and in local agricultural extension. The GIS-based Land Resources Information System developed by the project will be transferred to research partners in Tanzania and Uganda for further validation.
The key activities in target research areas in Tanzania and Uganda are as follows:
* Collection and GIS input of existing spatial environmental data.
* Participatory rural appraisal to define indigenous perceptions of, and criteria for, the classification of land resources, leading to participatory mapping of this body of indigenous knowledge, facilitated by GPS and GIS techniques.
* Systematic scientific appraisal of soil and land resources at semi-detailed (1;50,000 scale) and detailed (1;10,000 scale) of the target research areas.
* Compilation of temporal agrometeorological data to characterize climatic constraints.
* Reclassification of land resources combining scientific and indigenous classifications using the data assembled on the GIS for the target research areas.
* Development of pedotransfer functions for soil hydrological properties to assess soil-water management strategies for the reclassified land resource units.
* Participatory on-farm experimentation, combined with farming systems appraisal, to explore indigenous knowledge of soil-water management and the acceptability of potential interventions and to develop a methodology for the successful transfer of research results, including the use of simulation models.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- natural sciences earth and related environmental sciences physical geography cartography geographic information systems
- agricultural sciences agriculture, forestry, and fisheries agriculture
- social sciences economics and business business and management
- engineering and technology environmental engineering natural resources management water management
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