Slope Farming Projekts Arba Minch

The Slope Farming Project, Arba Minch, Ethiopia, by the Hamburg University of Technologies, Germany, is intended to facilitate both practical and theoretical research on the new, interdisciplinary field of "Restoration Engineering" within the broad field of "Rural Developement". Therefore a holistic approach regarding the restoration of degraded soils and ecosystems is developed and will be set into practice for the first time for evaluation, practical research, benchmark testing, system improval and demonstration purpose, finally.

To combat the deterioration of arable land by soil erosion and degradation, caused by non-adapted conventional agricultural practice and the destruction of natural vegetation, a new land use management system is highly needed, which takes the topics of water and wastewater, soil and vegetation management, agriculture, energy systems, drought stress related to a changing climate, food and water insecurity, malnutrition and poverty and migration processes into account and solves them togehter, in one co-operative, synergistic, low-cost, sustainable approach.