Providing the water needed to produce food for more than 9 billion people by 2050 seems simple: agriculture must produce more food with less water. However, three complex issues are involved: First, water, food production and rural development do not have a simple correlation. Second, there are i...
Woolley, Jonathan N.
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Cook, Simon E.
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David, S.
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Harrington, Larry W.
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[Water, food and development: the CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food]
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Water, food and development: the CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food
We compare water availability, water use, water productivity and poverty across the diverse river basins studied by the CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food. Water productivity tends to be higher in drier areas and where livestock grazing is integrated with rainfed crop production. We find t...
Harrington, Larry W.
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Cook, Simon E.
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Lemoalle, Jacques
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Kirby, Mac
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Taylor, C.
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Woolley, Jonathan N.
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[Cross-basin comparisons of water use, water scarcity and their impact on livelihoods: present and future]
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Cross-basin comparisons of water use, water scarcity and their impact on livelihoods: present and future
Community-managed irrigation systems are commonly faced with problems of low system-level performance. A comprehensive survey was undertaken to assess and quantify the causes of the low irrigation performance in a community-managed oasis in southern Tunisia. At the irrigation system level, result...
Ghazouani, Wafa
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Marlet, S.
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Mekki, I.
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Harrington, Larry W.
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Vidal, Alain
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[Farmers' practices and community management of irrigation: why do they not match in Fatnassa oasis?]
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Farmers' practices and community management of irrigation: why do they not match in Fatnassa oasis?