Trees are increasingly grown on-farm to supply wood and biomass needs within developing countries. Over the last several decades, within the irrigated rice-wheat growing lands of northern India, fast-growing poplar trees have been planted on tens of thousands of small farms. Recent debate regardi...
Zomer, Robert J.
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Bossio, Deborah A.
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Trabucco, Antonio
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Yuanjie, Li
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Gupta, Diwan C.
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Singh, Virendra P.
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[Trees and water: smallholder agroforestry on irrigated lands in Northern India]
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Trees and water: smallholder agroforestry on irrigated lands in Northern India
This report highlights the potentially significant impacts on the hydrologic cycle and the importance of considering secondary effects, particularly with regard to water, resulting from the widespread adoption of global climate change mitigation measures. It is recommended that the implicit hydro...
Zomer, Robert J.
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Trabucco, Antonio
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Straaten, Oliver van
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Bossio, Deborah A.
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[Carbon, land and water: a global analysis of the hydrologic dimensions of climate change mitigation through afforestation / reforestation]
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Carbon, land and water: a global analysis of the hydrologic dimensions of climate change mitigation through afforestation / reforestation
This paper examines the hypotheses "The prominence of high-value agricultural enterprises is not only predicated by climatic conditions; market Development plays a significant role", "Market Development has a greater influence on higher-value agricultural enterprises in more favorable zones", "Hi...
Place, Frank
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Kristjanson, Patricia M.
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Staal, Steven J.
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Kruska, R.L.
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Wolff, T. de
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Zomer, Robert J.
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Njuguna, E.C.
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[Development pathways in medium to high-potential Kenya: A meso-level analysis of agricultural patterns and determinants]
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Development pathways in medium to high-potential Kenya: A meso-level analysis of agricultural patterns and determinants