c18a5a8c-a9b0-401d-8784-d03f3c7cd049 English ISO/IEC 8859-1 (also known as Latin 1) dataset dataset NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg Lancaster LA1 4AP UK info@eidc.ac.uk https://eidc.ac.uk/ EIDC website The Environmental Information Data Centre (EIDC) is the UK's national data centre for terrestrial and freshwater sciences. information pointOfContact 2025-11-13T16:24:08 UK GEMINI 2.3 OSGB 1936 / British National Grid Soil water measurements from Ethiopia’s Awassa region during the drought and subsequent floods of 2015-2016 2019-07-12 publication https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/c18a5a8c-a9b0-401d-8784-d03f3c7cd049 10.5285/c18a5a8c-a9b0-401d-8784-d03f3c7cd049 doi: Smith, J., Hallett, P., Nayak, D., Boke, S., Habte, M., Yakob, G., Rivington, M., Phimister, E. (2019). Soil water measurements from Ethiopia’s Awassa region during the drought and subsequent floods of 2015-2016. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/c18a5a8c-a9b0-401d-8784-d03f3c7cd049 Measurements were taken in three fertility zones within households in two districts of Halaba in the SNNPR, Ethiopia. Measurements were taken after the El Niño event of 2015/16, so reflect the resilience of different areas of the farm to drought. Measurements are provided at fertility zones home, near and far from the home, and at three depths (0-5cm, 5-10cm and 10-15cm). Measurements included were volumetric water content, more water conductivity, and soil temperature. This dataset was collected as part of the NERC-funded project Building Resilience in Ethiopia's Awassa region to Drought (BREAD). Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/c18a5a8c-a9b0-401d-8784-d03f3c7cd049 NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk custodian NERC Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk publisher Smith, J. University of Aberdeen jo.smith@abdn.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6984-6766 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Hallett, P. University of Aberdeen paul.hallett@abdn.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7542-7832 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Nayak, D. University of Aberdeen d.nayak@abdn.ac.uk author Boke, S. Southern Agricultural Research Institute, Ethiopia abboshiferaw@gmail.com author Habte, M. Southern Agricultural Research Institute, Ethiopia mulerhab2006@yahoo.ca author Yakob, G. Southern Agricultural Research Institute, Ethiopia getahunyakob@gmail.com author Rivington, M. The James Hutton Institute Mike.Rivington@hutton.ac.uk author Phimister, E. University of Aberdeen e.phimister@abdn.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6483-0113 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Smith, J. University of Aberdeen jo.smith@abdn.ac.uk pointOfContact NE/P004830/1 BREAD Soil water characteristics fertility zones within the household otherRestrictions no limitations otherRestrictions This resource is available under the terms of the Open Government Licence otherRestrictions © Natural Environment Research Council otherRestrictions If you reuse this data, you should cite: Smith, J., Hallett, P., Nayak, D., Boke, S., Habte, M., Yakob, G., Rivington, M., Phimister, E. (2019). Soil water measurements from Ethiopia’s Awassa region during the drought and subsequent floods of 2015-2016. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/c18a5a8c-a9b0-401d-8784-d03f3c7cd049 textTable English utf8 biota 2015-01-01 2016-12-31 33.047 48.604 2.108 15.708 Comma-separated values (CSV) NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk distributor https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/c18a5a8c-a9b0-401d-8784-d03f3c7cd049 Download the data Download a copy of this data download https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/c18a5a8c-a9b0-401d-8784-d03f3c7cd049.zip Supporting information Supporting information available to assist in re-use of this dataset information dataset dataset Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services 2010-12-08 The measurements were collected from farmers’ fields in Halaba District near Hawassa (SNPPR, Ethiopia), after the drought of 2015 – 2016 (between January 2016 and July 2016). Sampling points were classed as “home”, “near” and “far” from the homestead. This corresponds to fields at increasing distance from the household, but does not equate to a set distance; it is more a reflection of the typical land uses in the fields. Measurements are provided at the three depths, 0-5cm, 5-10cm and 10-15cm. Measurements were collected from fields belonging to farmers with different wealth status (poor medium and rich) in two kebeles (parishes, Konicha and 1st Choroko).