Soil erosion and soil-moisture conservation under old terracing systems in the Palestinian Central Mountains

Institutt for plante- og miljøvitenskap

Ahmad Abu Hammad
Ahmad Abu Hammad was born in Jenin city, located in the northern part of the West Bank in September 1964. He finished my Bachelor and Master degree in 1993 from the Department of Soils and Irrigation in the Faculty of Agriculture of the University of Jordan in Amman – Jordan. The main field was Soil physics during my Master study.

Since 1993, he has been involved in work with the Applied Research Institute of Jerusalem for two years, and later on, I worked for the Palestinian Ministry of Planning into the Agricultural Sector. I am still having the same work position in the Ministry. My main duty at the Ministry is to prepare scientific reports on the agricultural and the water related issues on district, regional as well as national scale, with the final aim of conserving our available agricultural areas from the current random urban expansion and solid waste disposal.

In 1999 he got a scholarship opportunity to acquire a Ph.D. degree. The scholarship is established through an ongoing academic cooperation between Bergen University in Norway and Bir Zeit University in Palestine. This cooperation project is called ‘’ The lower Jordan River Basin Project’’, part of this project is to exchange students between Norway and Palestine to get, training, research’s data for their scientific topics, and to get a new academic degree.

About the research
Hammad’s study concentrates on erosion in Palestine. He found that erosion in Palestine is a serious problem and could be more serious in the near future, especially under the current political and socio-economic disturbances that are prevailing nowadays. Through his Ph.D. study, he tried to figure out where are those areas with high risk of erosion, utilizing different techniques of soil erosion model and GIS. This is a very useful tool for an area like Palestine, with limited financial and technical capacities, to control, manage and develop its land resources in sustainable way.

Ahmad Hammad Yousef Abu Hammad, 2004. Soil erosion and soil-moisture conservation under old terracing systems in the Palestinian Central Mountains. Doctor Scientiarum Thesis 2004:33. Agricultural University of Norway. ISBN: 82-575-0619-2, ISSN: 0802-3220

Publisert: 03.12.04
Oppdatert: 23.09.09
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