Juniper Publishers Agricultural Research Journal

Journal of Agriculture Research -  Juniper Publishers Abstract Home garden enables farmers to secure their food availability, mitigate environmental change, increase consistency of social-cultural value and protect species provenance. In other hands, it conserves biodiversity and sequesters carbon and improves a biogeochemical process even if the home garden has multifunctional value for the country, it has yet given special consideration from neither decision makers nor scientific front. The objective of the review is to identify the factors hindering the adoption of home garden agroforestry practice in non-adopted part of Ethiopia the second is to show existing opportunities to scale-up the practice with advocating the dual purpose that is socioeconomic and climate change mitigation system. Although biodiversity has been reduced in Ethiopia, there are potential suitable agro-ecological zones that can minimize the frequency of degradation to deal with the inf...

Journal of Agriculture Research -  Juniper Publishers Abstract By “no soil” is meant that there is no sustenance of humans. We take birth on soil, live on soil, walk on soil, die on soil and finally vanish in soil. Soil is synonym to Soul with immense spiritual values. Our civilization has flourished because of soil. Soil is the biggest biodiversity reservoir. Our health, culture and social behaviour are dictated by soils. Soil in continuum is sounding Vasudevakutumbkam. Indians worship soil as Holy Mother. However, demand for this holy mother is pressing with increasing human population and shrinking trend of agricultural land areas. Even though humans in general are consciously trying to care for soil, most of the time, human interferences remain imbalanced as well as disastrous causing ecological instability. This chapter discusses on major human interferences with diversified types of soil that often cause imbalance in equilibrium on way to restore susta...