The rapid development of farmer-led irrigation is increasing agricultural productivity, incomes, employment and nutrition, but it might well not achieve its full potential. Small-scale irrigators tend to be younger, male and better-off. Women and resource-poor farmers – the majority of farmers in...
Lefore, Nicole
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Giordano, Meredith A.
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Ringler, C.
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Barron, Jennie
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[Sustainable and equitable growth in farmer-led irrigation in Sub-Saharan Africa: what will it take?]
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Sustainable and equitable growth in farmer-led irrigation in Sub-Saharan Africa: what will it take?
Like rest of Southern India, tanks in Tamil Nadu also suffered massive deterioration as irrigation moved towards being more atomistic and less community-managed. Tank institutions declined and what remained of these irrigation tanks evolved into mostly percolation tanks. In 2017, in the face one ...
The sequential irrigation scheduling problem is one where a set of irrigation jobs have to be scheduled sequentially. In this paper, an integer program is presented to solve this problem. The objective function is a dual-goal function that avoids night irrigation and minimizes earliness or tardin...
Anwar, Arif A.
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Vries, T.T. de
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[Sequential irrigation scheduling avoiding night irrigation]
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Sequential irrigation scheduling avoiding night irrigation
Dalton, Timothy J.
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Lilja, Nina
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Johnson, Nancy L.
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Howeler, Reinhardt H.
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[Human capital accumulation and productivity improvements in Asian cassava systems: are participatory research approaches beneficial?]
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Human capital accumulation and productivity improvements in Asian cassava systems: are participatory research approaches beneficial?
Crop adaptation to climate change requires accelerated crop variety introduction accompanied by recommendations to help
farmers match the best variety with their field contexts. Existing approaches to generate these recommendations lack scalability and predictivity in marginal production environm...
Etten, Jacob van
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Sousa, K. de
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Aguillar, A.
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Barrios, M.
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Coto, A.
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Dell'Acqua, M.
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Fadda, Carlo
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Gebrehawaryat, Y.
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Gevel, J.M.J. van de
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Gupta, A.
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Kiros, A.Y.
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Madriz, B.
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Mathur, P.
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Mengistu, D.K.
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Mercado, L.
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Mohammed, J.N.
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Paliwal, A.
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Pe`, M.E.
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Quirós, C.F.
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Rosas, J.C.
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Sharma, N.
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Singh, S.S.
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Solanki, I.S.
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Steinke, J.
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[Crop variety management for climate adaptation supported by citizen science]
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Crop variety management for climate adaptation supported by citizen science
Lilja, Nina
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Bellon, M.R.
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[Analysis of participatory research projects in the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center]
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Analysis of participatory research projects in the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center
Since the Green Revolution, the public-sector's agricultural research strategy for increasing food crop productivity has been explicitly based on the premise that technology can cross political and agro-climatic boundaries, primarily through the training and visit system of extension (also know...
Lilja, Nina
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Dixon, John A.
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[Responding to the challenges of impact assessment of participatory research and gender analysis]
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Responding to the challenges of impact assessment of participatory research and gender analysis
Amaya, N.
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Bastos, C.
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Haan, Stef de
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[Seleccion participativa de variedades de papa: Analisis disgregado por genero: Caso Peru.]
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Seleccion participativa de variedades de papa: Analisis disgregado por genero: Caso Peru.
This study was commissioned to provide an understanding of the complex impacts climate change will likely have on existing gender and social inequalities. It presents a conceptual framework for understanding the gender dimensions of climate change and smallholder agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa...
Nelson, V
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[Climate change and gender: what role for agricultural research among smallholder farmers in Africa?]
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Climate change and gender: what role for agricultural research among smallholder farmers in Africa?
A decline in minor millet cultivation rings true across much of India. Yet a country wide revival of this cereal crop is in motion. Farmers are again recognising and asserting the value of minor millets, a cereal crop that was once central to their culture. A group of farmers in Madhya Pradesh ha...
Mondal, A.
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King, I.O.
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Roy, S.
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Priyam, S.
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Meldrum, G.
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Padulosi, S.
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Mishra, S.
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[Making millets matter in Madhya Pradesh]
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Making millets matter in Madhya Pradesh