The resolution adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations on 25 September 2015 is symptomatic of the water-energy-food (WEF) nexus. It postulates goals and related targets for 2030 that include (1) End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition, and promote sustainable agricu...
Ringler, Claudia
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Willenbockel, Dirk
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Pérez, N.
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Rosegrant, Mark W.
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Zhu, T.
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Matthews, Nathaniel
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[Global linkages among energy, food and water: an economic assessment]
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Global linkages among energy, food and water: an economic assessment
Uganda lies almost wholly within the Nile Basin and is a country characterised as well-endowed with water resources. Receiving considerable inflows of aid since the early 1990s, some of this aid emerging after the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro enabled the country to begin a process of Integ...
Nicol, Alan
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Odinga, W.
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[IWRM [Integrated Water Resources Management] in Uganda - progress after decades of implementation]
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IWRM [Integrated Water Resources Management] in Uganda - progress after decades of implementation
Awan, Usman K.
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Tischbein, B.
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Martius, C.
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[A GIS-based approach for up-scaling capillary rise from field to system level under soil-crop-groundwater mix]
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A GIS-based approach for up-scaling capillary rise from field to system level under soil-crop-groundwater mix
Bobojonov, Ihtiyor
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Lamers, J.P.A.
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Bekchanov, Maksud
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Djanibekov, Nodir
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Franz-Vasdekic, Jennifer
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Ruzimov, J
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Martius, C.
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[Options and constraints for crop diversification: a case study in sustainable agriculture in Uzbekistan]
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Options and constraints for crop diversification: a case study in sustainable agriculture in Uzbekistan
Devkota, M.
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Gupta, R.K.
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Martius, C.
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Lamers, J.P.A.
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Sayre, K.D.
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Vlek, Paul L.G.
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[Soil salinity management on raised beds with different furrow irrigation modes in salt-affected lands]
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Soil salinity management on raised beds with different furrow irrigation modes in salt-affected lands
Climate change is a complex and cross-cutting problem that needs an integrated and transformative systems approach to respond to the challenge. Current sectoral approaches to climate change adaptation initiatives often create imbalances and retard sustainable development. Regional and internation...
Mpandeli, S.
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Naidoo, D.
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Mabhaudhi, T.
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Nhemachena, Charles
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Nhamo, Luxon
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Liphadzi, S.
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Hlahla, S.
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Modi, A.T.
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[Climate change adaptation through the water-energy-food nexus in southern Africa]
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Climate change adaptation through the water-energy-food nexus in southern Africa
Study region : Transboundary aquifers (TBAs) of Africa.
Study focus: Review of work on TBAs in Africa, including an overview of assessments and management efforts that have taken place over the last half century.
New hydrological insights : Seventy-two TBAs have been mapped in Africa. They underl...
Nijstena, G-J.
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Christelis, G.
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Villholth, Karen G.
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Braune, E.
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Gaye, B.C.
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[Transboundary aquifers of Africa: Review of the current state of knowledge and progress towards sustainable development and management]
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Transboundary aquifers of Africa: Review of the current state of knowledge and progress towards sustainable development and management
Deficit irrigation could be considered as one potential option to improve water productivity and obtain some level of assured income under water scarcity and drought conditions in Central Asia. This article investigates water productivity and economic returns to two varieties of potato crop under...
Pavelic, Paul
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Brindha, Karthikeyan
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[Identifying priority watersheds to mitigate flood and drought impacts by novel conjunctive water use management]
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Identifying priority watersheds to mitigate flood and drought impacts by novel conjunctive water use management
This article traces the history of integrated water resources management (IWRM) in South Africa since the 1970s. It examines IWRM according to its three common pillars, which are also reflected in South Africa's National Water Act: economic efficiency, environmental sustainability, and equity. Th...
Koppen, Barbara C.M. van
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Schreiner, B.
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[Moving beyond Integrated Water Resources Management: Developmental Water Management in South Africa]
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Moving beyond Integrated Water Resources Management: Developmental Water Management in South Africa
Collective farming has been suggested as a potentially useful approach for reducing inequality and transforming peasant agriculture. In collectives, farmers pool land, labor, irrigation infrastructure, agricultural inputs and harvest to overcome resource constraints and to increase their bargaini...
Leder, Stephanie
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Sugden, F.
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Raut, Manita
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Ray, D.
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Saikia, P.
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[Ambivalences of collective farming: feminist political ecologies from eastern India and Nepal]
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Ambivalences of collective farming: feminist political ecologies from eastern India and Nepal