The Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayee Yojana programme should concentrate on two low-hanging fruits. First, it should quickly put to use 20-40 million ha of unutilised irrigation potential created in major, medium and minor irrigation projects. Second, it should provide better quality power rations...
Shah, Tushaar
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Mishra, G.
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Kela, Pankaj
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Chinnasamy, Pennan
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[Har Khet Ko Pani?: Madhya Pradesh’s irrigation reform as a model]
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Har Khet Ko Pani?: Madhya Pradesh’s irrigation reform as a model
The potential to increase agricultural production in inland valleys in West Africa has received a good degree of attention in both national development strategies and academic literature, and improving agriculture productivity in inland valleys has been an active area of donor engagement. Despite...
Katic, Pamela G.
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Lautze, Jonathan
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Namara, Regassa E.
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[Impacts of small built infrastructure in inland valleys in Burkina Faso and Mali: rationale for a systems approach that thinks beyond rice?]
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Impacts of small built infrastructure in inland valleys in Burkina Faso and Mali: rationale for a systems approach that thinks beyond rice?
Irrigation for smallholder farming systems is an important approach for sustainable intensification and increased productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa, provided investments in irrigation are properly targeted and accompanied by complementary improvements. Many GIS-based tools have been developed to...
Katic, Pamela G.
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Morris, J.
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[Targeting investments in small-scale groundwater irrigation using Bayesian networks for a data-scarce river basin in Sub-Saharan Africa]
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Targeting investments in small-scale groundwater irrigation using Bayesian networks for a data-scarce river basin in Sub-Saharan Africa
Reliance on rainfall for agriculture and increased climate change and variability pose growing production risks in developing countries. Agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa is dominated by smallholder farmers who depend mainly on rain-fed agriculture, putting food security at both household and nat...
Nhamo, Luxon
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Matchaya, Greenwell C.
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Nhemachena, Charles
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Koppen, Barbara C.M. van
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[The impact of investment in smallholder irrigation schemes on irrigation expansion and crop productivity in Malawi]
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The impact of investment in smallholder irrigation schemes on irrigation expansion and crop productivity in Malawi
The potential to increase agricultural production in inland valleys in West Africa has received a good degree of attention in both national development strategies and academic literature, and improving agriculture productivity in inland valleys has been an active area of donor engagement. Despite...
Katic, Pamela G.
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Lautze, Jonathan
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Namara, Regassa E.
,
[Impacts of small built infrastructure in inland valleys in Burkina Faso and Mali: rationale for a systems approach that thinks beyond rice?]
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Impacts of small built infrastructure in inland valleys in Burkina Faso and Mali: rationale for a systems approach that thinks beyond rice?
The study uses field level data from Niger to investigate whether traditional land tenure systems are an impediment to allocative efficiency in agriculture. The paper begins with a brief review of the emperical evidence available on African and other parts of the world and then describes the land...
The study uses the flexible accelerator model to examine determinants of the level and growth of investment in machinery and equipment for a sample of tea-processing firms in Uganda. Using a dynamic panel data model, we find that, in the long run, the level of investment in machinery and equipmen...
Twine, Edgar E.
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Kiiza, B.
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Bashaasha, B.
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[The flexible accelerator model of investment: An application to Ugandan tea-processing firms]
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The flexible accelerator model of investment: An application to Ugandan tea-processing firms
In recent years, large-scale agricultural investment projects have increased in sub-Saharan Africa as a result of the growing appetites of local and international investors for land resources. Research has so far mainly focused on land issues, but the water implications of these land deals are st...
Hertzog, T.
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Adamczewski, A.
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Molle, Francois
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Poussin, Jean-Christope
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Jamin, Jean-Yves
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[Ostrich-like strategies in Sahelian sands?: land and water grabbing in the Office du Niger, Mali.]
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Ostrich-like strategies in Sahelian sands?: land and water grabbing in the Office du Niger, Mali.
OASIS, an irrigation diagnosis model, is applied to the Zhanghe Irrigation System in central China to investigate the contribution of smaller local storages (in �melons on the vine� configuration) as compared with the main reservoir. Results show that local storages are more important in normal-t...
Xueliang Cai
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Yuanlai Cui
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Dai, J.
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Luo, Y.
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[Local storages: the impact on hydrology and implications for policy making in irrigation systems.]
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Local storages: the impact on hydrology and implications for policy making in irrigation systems.
Kakumanu, Krishna Reddy
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Palanisami, Kuppanan
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Ranganathan, C.R.
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Haileslassie, Amare
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[Assessment of risk premium in farm technology adoption as a climate change adaptation strategy in the dryland systems of India]
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Assessment of risk premium in farm technology adoption as a climate change adaptation strategy in the dryland systems of India