relation: http://oar.icrisat.org/11385/
title: Scaling up Land Restoration Approaches to Reclaim the Hardpans of Niger for Agriculture using  Sentinel 2 Imagery
creator: Irshad Ahmed, M
creator: Anil Kumar, H
creator: Laminou, S
creator: Mohammed, I A
creator: Bado, B V
creator: Fatondji, D
creator: Whitbread, A M
subject: Digital Soil Mapping
subject: GIS Techniques/Remote Sensing
subject: Soil Fertility
subject: Soil
description: Degraded lands, widespread across sub-Saharan Africa, are used mainly for grazing  and firewood harvesting and have low agricultural production potential. Such areas  have become degraded through overuse and removal of surface cover and associated  erosion processes and are termed hardpans. Hardpans with high clay content, high  cation exchange capacity (CEC) and water holding capacity have productive  potential. ICRISAT has developed and scaled a gender sensitive approach Bioreclamation  of Degraded Land” (BDL) that combines water harvesting technologies  (planting pits, half-moon and trenches), application of compost and plantation of  high value fruit trees and annual drought tolerant indigenous vegetables. In  partnership with CRS in Niger, BDL was scaled to over 3000 villages (2014-18) which  led to many benefits in food security and income generation for the local  population. To scale further multi-spectral remote sensing based imagery of high  resolution (10 m) can identify and map hardpans and differentiate higher potential  sites for the BDL approach. These maps will be used to quantify the area under  hardpans and the potential area in which the interventions can be scaled up.
date: 2019-07
type: Conference or Workshop Item
type: PeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
language: en
identifier: http://oar.icrisat.org/11385/1/143_hardpan_niger_poster_final_print.pdf
identifier:   Irshad Ahmed, M and Anil Kumar, H and Laminou, S and Mohammed, I A and Bado, B V and Fatondji, D and Whitbread, A M  (2019) Scaling up Land Restoration Approaches to Reclaim the Hardpans of Niger for Agriculture using Sentinel 2 Imagery.  In: world soils user consultation meeting, 2-3 July 2019, Frascati (Rome), Italy.    (Submitted)  
relation: http://worldsoils2019.esa.int/page_poster_session.php