Implementing Agency:
Department For International Development (NRRD)

Managing Institute:
Department For International Development (SYMO)

Contractor:
Silsoe Research Institute

Project Code: R5681 629-658-001	Start Date: 01/11/1993	End Date: Mar. 31, 1998
Commitment: £168,710	Status: Awaiting Confirmation of Completion	Type of Funding: Bilateral - TDR

Project Background:
Hillside farm families have amongst the lowest incomes of rural households in the world. Demographic and other pressures mean that hitherto unfarmed land is increasingly being cultivated. Traditional and many improved cultivation techniques lead to soil erosion, declining productivity and deforestation.

The Project is a conclusion of on-going work in Honduras for a two year period that will provide a quantitative assessment of the technical appropriateness, economic viability, social acceptability and adoption practices of vegetative soil and water conservation practices involving the use of live-barriers and leguminous crops. From this work recommendations on suitable technology options, research procedures and methodologies will be identified and promoted for use in other hillside environments.

Project Objectives:
To provide extension agencies and farmers with appropriate information on soil and water conservation technologies and hand tool use for the sustained use of hillside farms.

Intended Outputs:
Quantitative assessment of the technical appropriateness, economic visability, social acceptability and adoption practices of vegetative soil and water conservation practices involving the use of leguminous cover crops and live-barriers.

Recommendations on suitable technology options, research procedures and methodologies promoted.