More than 70 percent of Turkey's land area faces soil degradation from erosion, resulting in low productivity and low rural incomes. In 1993, the World Bank approved the Eastern Anatolia Watershed Rehabilitation project, which has since improved the lives of farmers in more than 300 mountain villages, by enabling them to grow new cash crops and by teaching them new farming techniques that have boosted agricultural production dramatically. The project was designed to increase the productivity of forest land, promote the sustainable use of marginal farmland, and increase the involvement of local communities in planning and managing their own natural resources. Smaller projects have been carried out in 11 provinces, covering 617,000 hectares and benefiting 227,000 people. Since its launch, rural incomes have at least doubled, and satellite images reveal a marked difference in vegetation, which will help reduce floods and sedimentation.
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Document Date
2002/09/17
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Document Type
Brief
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Report Number
91787
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Volume No
1
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Total Volume(s)
1
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Disclosure Date
2015/01/21
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Disclosure Status
Disclosed
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Doc Name
Doubling rural incomes in Turkey
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Keywords
rural income;land area;soil degradation;cash crop;farming technique;agricultural production;forest land;sustainable use;Natural Resources;satellite image;farmer;flood;
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Doubling rural incomes in Turkey (English). Results profile Washington, DC ; World Bank Group http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/200021468115163092/Doubling-rural-incomes-in-Turkey