| Frontispiece | Satellite imagery shows overgrazing in the Sahel |
| 2.1 | Erosion damage from abnormal storms, Queensland, Australia |
| 2.2 | Erosion damage from abnormal storms, Queensland, Australia |
| 2.3 | Wind erosion on an irrigation project, USA |
| 2.4 | Severe geological erosion in a semi-arid climate |
| 4.1 | An erodible soil devastated by water erosion in Mexico |
| 4.2 | An example of expensive gully control, Australia |
| 4.3 | A self-help group in Kenya |
| 4.4 | The single-ox harness and hitch being developed at ILCA |
| 4.5 | Level irrigation terraces in Bhutan |
| 4.6 | Bench terraces in the Yemen Arab Republic |
| 4.7 | Step terraces |
| 4.8 | Fanya juu terrace in Kenya |
| 4.9 | Vegetation planted on a fanya juu terrace |
| 4.10 | Murundum terrace in Brazil |
| 4.11 | Contour bund |
| 4.12 | Graded channel terraces |
| 4.13 | Ridging |
| 4.14 | Tied ridging |
| 4.15 | Orchard terracing |
| 4.16 | Hillside ditch with lock and spill drain |
| 4.17 | Long-established terraces in Ethiopia |
| 4.18 | Old terraces in the Yemen Arab Republic |
| 4.19 | Overtopping one contour bank can cause the others to fail |
| 4.20 | Simple stop-wash lines in Ethiopia |
| 4.21 | Grass strips, Swaziland |
| 4.22 | Grass strips do not eliminate erosion on steep land, Swaziland |
| 4.23 | Live hedge in Kenya |
| 4.24 | A vegetative barrier, southern Mali |
| 4.25 | Grass strips can provide fodder, in Kenya, and in Brazil |
| 4.26 | Stone lines on the contour, Burkina Faso |
| 4.27 | Improved grass near stone lines, Mali |
| 4.28 | Stone lines on an eroded cattle track, Kenya |
| 4.29 | A stone barrier across a small wash, Mali |
| 5.1 | Broad bed and furrow system layout, ICRISAT, India |
| 5.2 | Cross-section of broad bed and furrow |
| 5.3 | A tool carrier for forming and cultivating beds, ICRISAT |
| 5.4 | An ox-drawn ridger at ILCA in Ethiopia |
| 5.5 | Run-off and erosion on a vertisol in India |
| 5.6 | Wide beds with open furrows in Ethiopia |
| 5.7 | Trials at ICRISAT of a 3-row planter on broad beds |
| 5.8 | Experiments with 'tied-mounding', Burkina Faso |
| 5.9 | Basin listing for wheat production in Israel |
| 5.10 | Lifting the ridger by hand, Malawi |
| 5.11 | The ridger lifted by an eccentric wheel |
| 5.12 | Ridges and ties from crop residues and roots, Ethiopia |
| 5.13 | Contour bunds with ties, Ethiopia |
| 5.14 | Contour bunds give increased grass growth, Ethiopia |
| 5.15 | Pits used to increase surface water retention on a tea estate in Malawi |
| 5.16 | Contour furrows in north-eastern Brazil |
| 5.17 | Contour furrows in Kitui Province, Kenya |
| 5.18 | Animal-drawn ridger to form contour ridges |
| 5.19 | A tractor-drawn ridger-blade |
| 5.20 | Field trials of contour ridges and furrows, Mexico |
| 5.21 | Terraced wadis, Tunisia |
| 5.22 | Ancient terraced wadis now abandoned, Negev, Israel |
| 5.23 | Ancient terraced wadis, some being cultivated by Bedouins |
| 5.24 | Run-off farming in the Negev, Israel |
| 5.25 | Shaped gravel strips increase run-off, Negev, Israel |
| 5.26 | Run-off farming on terraced fields in Afghanistan |
| 5.27 | Run-off farming for olive groves, Tunisia |
| 5.28 | An oasis in the Hunza valley, northern Pakistan |
| 5.29 | The supply canals or 'khuls' cross steep slopes |
| 5.30 | Terraced cultivation using run-off, Yemen Arab Republic |
| 5.31 | Run-off farming in the Yemen Arab Republic |
| 5.32 | Flood diversion structure, Yemen Arab Republic |
| 5.33 | Floodwater control structure, Mali |
| 5:34 | Inundation of an olive orchard, Tunisia |
| 5.35 | Flood diversion structures, Tigre, Ethiopia |
| 5.36 | Feeder canal in flood diversion scheme, Tigre; Ethiopia |
| 5.37 | Traditional surface drains cut through modern terraces, Ethiopia |
| 6.1 | Water harvesting from a granite outcrop, Kenya |
| 6.2 | Roaded catchments, shaping the soil surface, Australia |
| 6.3 | Smoothing and compacting the 'roads', Australia |
| 6.4 | Erosion can be a problem on the 'roads' |
| 6.5 | Two different layouts of roaded catchments, Western Australia |
| 6.6 | Flat-batter dams, Western Australia |
| 6.7 | A simple sand trap weir, Zimbabwe |
| 6.8 | A large sediment trapping dam, Republic of South Africa |
| 6.9 | The 'sausage' method of constructing water storage tanks |
| 7.1 | Reduced vegetation from overgrazing, Zimbabwe |
| 7.2 | Satellite imagery showing overgrazing, Namibia |
| 7.3 | Spreading floodwater to improve pasture, Australia |
| 7.4 | Pasture furrows to spread surface run-off, Australia |
| 7.5 | Marking out semi-circular hoops, Burkina Faso |
| 7.6 | Building the low stone wall, Burkina Faso |
| 7.7 | The opposed disc pitter, Western Australia |
| 7.8 | Opposed discs with ripper and grass seeder, Western Australia |
| 7.9 | Pits and furrows formed by machine, Western Australia |
| 7.10 | Range pitting, New South Wales, Australia |
| 7.11 | A spiked roller for range improvement, Western Australia |
| 7.12 | The imprinter for corrugating range land, New South Wales, Australia |
| 7.13 | The effect of excluding grazing, Ethiopia |
| 7.14 | Restoration of grazing land, India |
| 7.15 | A roller chopper to control shrubs, New South Wales, Australia |
| 7.16 | Staggered furrows to increase infiltration, Northern Territory, Australia |
| 7.17 | Ponding banks to leach salinity, New South Wales, Australia |
| 7.18 | Spirals of furrows to increase infiltration, Northern Territory, Australia |
| 7.19 | Grass seeded in pits, Northern Territory, Australia |
| 7.20 | Microcatchments for growing fruit trees |
| 7.21 | Half-moons for tree planting in Niger |
| 7.22 | Grass between rows of leucaena, India |
| 7.23 | Double rows of leucaena for mulch or fodder with space for arable crops, India |
