Flood-based farming is among the potential options in ensuring access to water for crop and livestock production for small-scale farmers in the arid and semiarid lowlands of sub-Saharan Africa, and Ethiopia in particular. Flood-based irrigation while inexpensive is rooted in tradition in many rur...
Erkossa, Teklu
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Langan, Simon J.
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Hagos, Fitsum
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[Constraints to the development, operation and maintenance of spate irrigation schemes in Ethiopia]
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Constraints to the development, operation and maintenance of spate irrigation schemes in Ethiopia
Langan, Simon J.
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Erkossa, Teklu
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[Conclusion and next steps for spate irrigation research]
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Conclusion and next steps for spate irrigation research
With its total area of about 200,000 square kilometers (km2), which is 20% of the country?s land mass, and accommodating 25% of the population, the Upper Blue Nile Basin (Abbay) is one of the most important river basins in Ethiopia. About 40% of agricultural products and 45% of the surface water ...
Erkossa, Teklu
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Awulachew, Seleshi Bekele
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Haileslassie, Amare
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Yilma, Aster Denekew
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[Impacts of improving water management of smallholder agriculture in the Upper Blue Nile Basin]
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Impacts of improving water management of smallholder agriculture in the Upper Blue Nile Basin
Crop production is a function of water, nutrient, climate and soil environment. Provided that all other requirement are satisfactorily for proper growth and production, rainfall rarely meets the time with required amount of water application for plant growth. As a result average yield of agricult...
Hordofa, T.
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Menkir, Michael
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Awulachew, Seleshi Bekele
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Erkossa, Teklu
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[Irrigation and rain-fed crop production system in Ethiopia]
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Irrigation and rain-fed crop production system in Ethiopia
It is the belief of many analysts that agrarian countries like Ethiopia that depend on rain-fed agriculture are significantly vulnerable to rainfall variability, the risk which tends to aggravate with global climate change. Consequently, it is believed that future increases in food supplies and e...
Loulseged, Makonnen
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Awulachew, Seleshi Bekele
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Jayasinghe, Gayathree
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Hagos, Fitsum
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Erkossa, Teklu
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[Inventory, sustainability assessment, and upscaling of best agricultural water management practices]
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Inventory, sustainability assessment, and upscaling of best agricultural water management practices
The study examined whether the use of spate irrigation in drought-prone areas of Ethiopia reduced poverty. Each of about 25 users of indigenous and modern spate irrigation schemes and an equal number of corresponding nonusers from the same peasant associations in Oromia and Tigray regional states...
Hagos, Fitsum
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Erkossa, Teklu
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Lefore, Nicole
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Langan, Simon J.
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[Spate irrigation and poverty in Ethiopia]
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Spate irrigation and poverty in Ethiopia
The study examined whether access to spate irrigation leads to better nutrition outcomes. The results showed that there is an overall improvement in the study sites compared to the 2011 DHS study. As far as households with access to spate irrigation are concerned, weight-for-height z-scores indic...
Hagos, Fitsum
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Mulugeta, A.
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Erkossa, Teklu
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Lefore, Nicole
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Langan, Simon J.
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[Diversion of flashy floods for agricultural use and its effect on nutrition in Ethiopia]
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Diversion of flashy floods for agricultural use and its effect on nutrition in Ethiopia
Erkossa, Teklu
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Haileslassie, Amare
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Amede, Tilahun
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[Agricultural water productivity across landscape positions and management alternatives]
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Agricultural water productivity across landscape positions and management alternatives
The Ethiopian part of the Nile basin is dominated by a mixed crop-livestock rainfed agriculture constrained by temporal and spatial variations in climate, relief, soil, and sever land degradation exacerbated by lack of appropriate technologies. The continued shrinking per capita agricultural land...
Erkossa, Teklu
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Awulachew, Seleshi Bekele
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Hagos, Fitsum
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Denekew, Aster
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[Characterization and productivity assessment of the farming systems in the Upper part of the Nile Basin]
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Characterization and productivity assessment of the farming systems in the Upper part of the Nile Basin
Mamo, T.
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Tedla, A.
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Erkossa, Teklu
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[The effect of undersowing wheat with clovers on wheat grain yield, total crop residue yield and nutritive value of straw and fodder grown on Vertisols in Ethiopia]
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The effect of undersowing wheat with clovers on wheat grain yield, total crop residue yield and nutritive value of straw and fodder grown on Vertisols in Ethiopia