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Anand, the Gujarat town that gave India its dairy cooperative movement, has now spawned in Dhundi village the world’s fi rst solar cooperative that produces Solar Power as a Remunerative Crop. When compared to other models promoting solar irrigation in the country, the SPaRC model, which has succ...


Shah, TushaarDurga, N.Rai, G.P.Verma, S.Rathod, R.[Promoting solar power as a remunerative crop]Promoting solar power as a remunerative crop

Increasing climate variability and challenge in access to water pose major impediments to rainfed agricultural productivity. Extensive flooding of agricultural lands during the rainy season and lack of water during the 8-month long dry season affect the livelihood of the people in the northern Gh...


Owusu, SethMul, Marloes L.Ghansah, BenjaminOsei-Owusu, P.K.Awotwe-Pratt, V.Kadyampakeni, D.[Assessing land suitability for aquifer storage and recharge in northern Ghana using remote sensing and GIS multi-criteria decision analysis technique]Assessing land suitability for aquifer storage and recharge in northern Ghana using remote sensing and GIS multi-criteria decision analysis technique
Autor: Naber, M.A.

The control of groundwater over abstraction is a vexing problem worldwide. Jordan is one of the countries facing severe water scarcity which has implemented a wide range of measures and policies over the past 20 years. While the gap between formal legal and policy frameworks and local practices o...


Naber, M.A.[Controlling groundwater over abstraction: state policies vs localpractices in the Jordan highlands]Controlling groundwater over abstraction: state policies vs localpractices in the Jordan highlands

Drip irrigation in India has expanded slowly. One reason cited is the high capital costs facing the smallholder-dominated agricultural sector. Governments have provided capital subsidies in response. This study finds that, rather than improving access to drip, the subsidy system holds the technol...


Malik, Ravinder Paul SinghGiordano, MarkRathore, M.S.[The negative impact of subsidies on the adoption of drip irrigation in India: evidence from Madhya Pradesh]The negative impact of subsidies on the adoption of drip irrigation in India: evidence from Madhya Pradesh

This article shows how large-scale commercial farmers, individually and collectively, are responding to land and water reform processes in the Thukela River basin, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. With a high degree of innovative agency, commercial farmers have effectively executed four strategies, e...


Mendez-Barrientos, L.E.Kemerink, J.S.Wester, P.Molle, Francois[Commercial farmers’ strategies to control water resources in South Africa: an empirical view of reform]Commercial farmers’ strategies to control water resources in South Africa: an empirical view of reform

This paper focuses on the application of the concept of Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) in Tanzania. It asks: how did IWRM affect the rural and fast-growing majority of smallholder farmers' access to water which contributes directly to poverty alleviation and employment creation in a...


Koppen, Barbara C.M. vanTarimo, A.K.P.R.Eeden, A. vanManzungu, EmmanuelSumuni, P.M.[Winners and losers of IWRM [Integrated Water Resources Management] in Tanzania]Winners and losers of IWRM [Integrated Water Resources Management] in Tanzania

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 vanSousa, K. deAguillar, A.Barrios, M.Coto, A.Dell'Acqua, M.Fadda, CarloGebrehawaryat, Y.Gevel, J.M.J. van deGupta, A.Kiros, A.Y.Madriz, B.Mathur, P.Mengistu, D.K.Mercado, L.Mohammed, J.N.Paliwal, A.Pe`, M.E.Quirós, C.F.Rosas, J.C.Sharma, N.Singh, S.S.Solanki, I.S.Steinke, J.[Crop variety management for climate adaptation supported by citizen science]Crop variety management for climate adaptation supported by citizen science

The overuse and misuse of chemical pesticides has widely been reported in vegetable cultivation in Sri Lanka. While safer and environmental friendly pest and disease management methods such as Integrated Pest Management (IPM) are popular around the world, only little effort has been taken to prom...


Jayasooriya, H.J.C.Aheeyar, Mohamed M.M.[Adoption and factors affecting on adoption of integrated pest management among vegetable farmers in Sri Lanka]Adoption and factors affecting on adoption of integrated pest management among vegetable farmers in Sri Lanka

Duncan, Alan J.Öborn, IngridNziguheba, G.Temesgen, TameneMuoni, T.Okeyo, I.Shiluli, M.Berhanu, T.Walangululu, J.Vanlauwe, Bernard[Supporting smallholder farmers’ decisions on legume use in East Africa—The LegumeCHOICE approach]Supporting smallholder farmers’ decisions on legume use in East Africa—The LegumeCHOICE approach

Awio, BrunoKatungi, EnidNkalubo, Stanley T.Mukankusi, Clare MugishaMalinga, Geoffrey MaxwellGibson, PaulRubaihayo, PatrickEdema, Richard[Participatory farmers’ selection of common bean varieties (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) under different production constraints]Participatory farmers’ selection of common bean varieties (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) under different production constraints

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