IWMI - IBSRAM - Asialand Sloping Land Management

• Unité de recherche: DDC
• Numéro de projet: 7F-02712.04

Mots-clé (Allemand)

Entwicklungszusammenarbeit

Mots-clé (Anglais)

Development cooperation

Mots-clé (Français)

Coopération au développement

Description succincte (Anglais)

To contribute to food security and poverty alleviation in developing regions through research and related activities that promote sustainable land management, IBSRAM established the ASIALAND Management of sloping Lands network in 1988, with the financial support of SDC. The main objective of the network is to assist national agricultural research centers in conserving soil resources on sloping lands in the Asian region through research and promotion of the application of appropriate land management technologies to achieve a sustainable form of agriculture.

In Order to accomplish this objective, the implementation of the network has been carried cut in different phases. Results from phases 1(1989-1991) and 2(1992-1994) have shown that some of the improved technologies tested are effective in reducing water runoff and soil erosion considerably. Flaring Phase 3 (1995-1997), these encouraging results were validated by farmers, i.e. treatments have been selected and tested by farmers in their fields to provide a sound basis for technology transfer.

Despite some success in terms of development and validation of soil conservation technologies, adoption rates during Phase 3 has been low due to a number of problems, such as: neglecting farmers' circumstances; insufficient communication between farmers and researches, extensionists; inadequate information transfer; lack of policy support; farmers' limited awareness of soil erosion problems; and farmers' limited means to address soil erosion problem etc.

To ensure longterm adoption, evaluation of the sustainability of the technologies and farmers' attitudes over a longer period of time is needed. It is important that sustainability indicators in the on-farm research sites are monitored over an extended period of time. Consequently, the general objective of Phase 4 project is aimed at extending and sustaining the acceptance of conservation farming technologies and enhancing participation and adoption by farmers through the application of appropriate technology transfer approaches complemented by the necessary R&D and policy support.
Expected results of Phase 4 include i) organisation of training sessions on the participatory approach of soil conservation research and extension; ii) development of a sustainable upland and sloping land farming community in each country; iii) production of information packages, iv) establishment of cooperation with other relevant agencies, including GO's and NGOs; v) enhancement of capacity building of NARES; vi) enhancement of awareness of government and general public on the problem of soil erosion and its alleviation ; vii) wider adoption of soil conservation technologies by farmers and viii) the elaboration and implementation of a strategy which assures network coordination for a sustained activity of the network beyond 2001, as the Phase 4 will be the last phase supported by SDC.

Of the total requested budget of CHF 2'500'000 from Sir, CHF 857'000 will be used to hind the various activities and personnel under the IBSRAM component and CHF 1'218'000 for the NARES component, country budget requirement.

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