Groundwater provides nearly 100 % of the water supplies in some districts of Sri Lanka and is a major source of domestic water in all other districts. However, the resource remains largely neglected and invisible to society and policymakers. Groundwater offers the advantage of being a more reliab...
Aheeyar, Mohamed M.M.
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Manthrithilake, Herath
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Pathmarajah, S.
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Makin, Ian W.
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[Groundwater development through sprinkler irrigation: consequences of a lack of a governance structure in Kalpitiya, Sri Lanka]
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Groundwater development through sprinkler irrigation: consequences of a lack of a governance structure in Kalpitiya, Sri Lanka
Ever since the oil, financial and food crises of 2008, sub-Saharan Africa has witnessed a marked increase in large-scale investment in agricultural land. The drivers of this investment are varied and include growing food, water and energy insecurity as well as social and economic interests of inv...
Williams, Timothy O.
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Sidibe, Yoro
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[Can current land and water governance systems promote sustainable and equitable large-scale agricultural investments in sub-Saharan Africa?]
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Can current land and water governance systems promote sustainable and equitable large-scale agricultural investments in sub-Saharan Africa?
In this paper, concepts from Socio-Ecological Systems (SES) theory are applied to explore interactions among ecosystem services, livelihoods and resilience of SES. The approach was to i) examine trends in the stock of bundle of ecosystem services in three study landscapes namely Fogera, Jeldu and...
Lemenih, Mulugeta
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Bossio, Deborah A.
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Langan, Simon J.
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[Exploring ecosystem services contribution to social-ecological resilience in Ethiopian agricultural landscapes.]
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Exploring ecosystem services contribution to social-ecological resilience in Ethiopian agricultural landscapes.
Johnston, R.
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McCornick, Peter G.
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Lacombe, Guillaume
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Noble, A.D.
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Hoanh, Chu Thai
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Bartlett, R.
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[Water for food and energy in the GMS [Greater Mekong Subregion]: issues and challenges to 2020.]
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Water for food and energy in the GMS [Greater Mekong Subregion]: issues and challenges to 2020.
Irrigated agriculture is undeniably a significant modification to natural ecosystems, and one which has not been without significant adverse impacts on the ecology and hydrology of the landscapes and river basins in which irrigation systems are located. A lack of consideration for broader ecosyst...
Makin, Ian W.
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Manthrithilake, Herath
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[Sustainable intensification of agriculture with sustainable irrigated agroecosystem services]
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Sustainable intensification of agriculture with sustainable irrigated agroecosystem services
The main limiting factor impeding the operationalisation of the WEF nexus has been lack of metrics and tools to translate the concept into a fully-fledged operational framework to support policy and decision-making. This study developed a WEF nexus model by (i) defining WEF nexus sustainability i...
Nhamo, Luxon
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Mabhaudhi, T.
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Mpandeli, S.
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[A model to integrate and assess water-energy-food nexus performance: South Africa case study]
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A model to integrate and assess water-energy-food nexus performance: South Africa case study