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creators_name: Irshad Ahmed, M
creators_name: Anil Kumar, H
creators_name: Laminou, S
creators_name: Mohammed, I A
creators_name: Bado, B V
creators_name: Fatondji, D
creators_name: Whitbread, A M
icrisatcreators_name: Irshad Ahmed, M
icrisatcreators_name: Anil Kumar, H
icrisatcreators_name: Laminou, S
icrisatcreators_name: Mohammed, I A
icrisatcreators_name: Bado, B V
icrisatcreators_name: Fatondji, D
icrisatcreators_name: Whitbread, A M
affiliation: ICRISAT (Patancheru)
affiliation: ICRISAT (Niamey)
country: India
country: Niger
title: Scaling up Land Restoration Approaches to Reclaim the Hardpans of Niger for Agriculture using
Sentinel 2 Imagery
ispublished: submitted
subjects: DG1
subjects: S100
subjects: S2020
subjects: S40006
divisions: CRPS4
divisions: CRPS1
crps: crp1.13
full_text_status: restricted
pres_type: poster
keywords: Soil Erosion, Land Restoration, GIS
abstract: 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
date_type: submitted
event_title: world soils user consultation meeting
event_location: Frascati (Rome), Italy
event_dates: 2-3 July 2019
event_type: conference
refereed: TRUE
official_url: http://worldsoils2019.esa.int/page_poster_session.php
citation:   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)  
document_url: http://oar.icrisat.org/11385/1/143_hardpan_niger_poster_final_print.pdf