Authors :
Etame Sone Diabe; Jules Balna; Kwata Sandrine Deli
Volume/Issue :
Volume 9 - 2024, Issue 4 - April
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DOI :
https://doi.org/10.38124/ijisrt/IJISRT24APR216
Abstract :
The relief and high population densities of
≥150 inhabitants/Km2in the Mandara Mountains and the
drastic displacement of internally displaced persons
towards these Mountains have brought about severe
effects on water and soil resources. This environmental
and socio-political crisis, have made agricultural
production not to meet demand for food and hundreds of
these rural people go hungry each day. This has
constrained the inhabitants to develop various tactics of
soil water preservation and landscape restoration
towards fighting deficiencies in crop production to
ensure food security. This study analyzes terracing as a
traditional system of soil water conservation adopted by
the farmers in Djingliya villages found on the Mandara
Mountains. Through secondary source of information,
field observation, interviews and questionnaires
administered on 100 persons in five villages of the study
area, results show that: soil degradation via soil
resources overuse and erosion is checked by terraces.
Also, the tendency of adopting local techniques is
harnessed through the cultivation of plants which
increase infiltration, agroforestry, crop rotation
practices, Forest Landscape Conservation, Mosaic
Landscape Restoration and Valorizing Local Plant
Species to ensure sustainable farming activities that
restore degraded land in general and terraces in
particular.
Keywords :
Terracing, Soil Water Preservation, Landscape Restoration, Sustainable Farming, Rural Development, Djingliya -Mandara Mountains.
The relief and high population densities of
≥150 inhabitants/Km2in the Mandara Mountains and the
drastic displacement of internally displaced persons
towards these Mountains have brought about severe
effects on water and soil resources. This environmental
and socio-political crisis, have made agricultural
production not to meet demand for food and hundreds of
these rural people go hungry each day. This has
constrained the inhabitants to develop various tactics of
soil water preservation and landscape restoration
towards fighting deficiencies in crop production to
ensure food security. This study analyzes terracing as a
traditional system of soil water conservation adopted by
the farmers in Djingliya villages found on the Mandara
Mountains. Through secondary source of information,
field observation, interviews and questionnaires
administered on 100 persons in five villages of the study
area, results show that: soil degradation via soil
resources overuse and erosion is checked by terraces.
Also, the tendency of adopting local techniques is
harnessed through the cultivation of plants which
increase infiltration, agroforestry, crop rotation
practices, Forest Landscape Conservation, Mosaic
Landscape Restoration and Valorizing Local Plant
Species to ensure sustainable farming activities that
restore degraded land in general and terraces in
particular.
Keywords :
Terracing, Soil Water Preservation, Landscape Restoration, Sustainable Farming, Rural Development, Djingliya -Mandara Mountains.
