Soil Erosion, fertility and socio-economic role of exclosure land

Abstract

Improper use of land could result in loss of biodiversity, soil fertility, and poverty to the people. Population growth, agricultural expansion, urbanization, the absence of alternative assets, and other biophysical factors aggravate forest land degradation. Previously, in most parts of the world different forest land reclamation approaches had been implemented. Many authors argue that the establishment of exclosure land use through providing equivalent benefit to participated local community sustainably reclamation degraded lands. Therefore, this review paper was aimed to assess the role of previously established exclosure land use for socio-economic as well as soil fertility improvement. Secondary data were used and summarized. Due to the conversion of communal grazing land to exclosure land soil fertility aspects were enhanced. The socioeconomic benefits of exclosure land to the local communities were shown inconsistence improvement across Agroecology. Therefore, further studies on how to sustainably, and equally share all benefits of exclosure land use to local communities should be studied for obtaining win-win results on the previously exclosure land uses.