This article contributes to recent efforts to demonstrate the significance of gender in shaping human-environment interactions through an in-depth study of a model collective in the water and soil conservation campaigns that the People's Republic of China (PRC) launched during the early 1950s....

Low water use efficiency in the dryland regions contributes to the low crop productivity. We assessed how selected soil management strategies affect soil moisture, and water use efficiency in the drylands of Tharaka-Nithi County in Kenya. The experiment was laid in a randomized complete block...

Like in many low moor regions in East Germany, long-standing intensive arable farming - enabled by complex melioration - has caused soil deterioration and high water runoff in the ‘Schraden’. More than ten years of economic and political transformation has worsened the situation and even...