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The Nigeria Erosion and Watershed Management Project (NEWMAP) is a World Bank supported initiative of the FGN to tackle the problem of Erosion and Watershed management in the targeted project area.
Seven LULC classes are identified, namely, urban settlement, stoney waste, water body, river bed, cultivated land, open scrub, and dense vegetation.
The Nigeria Erosion and Watershed Management Project (NEWMAP) is an intervention project for the management of the erosion and watershed challenges in Nigeria more especially within the South-East and South-South of the Country.
The Nigerian terrain is quite varied but except perhaps, in a few areas of rugged hills or extreme water logging (Figure 1 & 2), it does not constitute a major constraint to man's social and ...
Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa and has highly diverse forest ecosystems. Unfortunately, this rich vegetation continues to decline at an alarming rate; 21% of its forest cover...
World Bank Assisted Project on The Nigeria Erosion and Watershed Management Project (NEWMAP) to finance the age-long erosion malaise in the State through the intervention of prioritized gully erosion sites.
Nigeria Erosion and Watershed Management Project (NEWMAP) is a World Bank assisted project aimed at addressing the Nigerian gully erosion crisis in Southeastern Nigeria and land degradation in Northern Nigeria on a multi-dimensional scale. [1]
