-Overstocking reduces vegetation cover exposing soil to agents of erosions
- Ploughing up / down a slope provides channels for surface run off. These are enlarged to become gullies
- Deforestation / cleaning of vegetation cover exposes soil to agents to erosion.
- Mining/ Quarry/ road construction loosens / exposes the soil making of it susceptible to erosion.
- Human settlement and cultivation on steep slope / rivers frontage increases soil erosion processes.
- Continues cultivation without replenishment of soil fertility leads to soil exhaustion making the soil vulnerable to erosion.
- Shifting cultivation / bush fallowing leaves land unprotected against erosion.
-Overstocking – farmers to reduce the number of livestock
- Deforestation – Plant more trees / reafforestations
- Ploughing on steep slopes – contour ploughing
- Monoculure – diversification of crops
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