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A geo-informatics approach for estimating water resources management components and their interrelationships
A remote sensing based geo-informatics approach was developed to estimate water resources management (WRM) components across a large irrigation scheme in the Indus Basin of Pakistan. The approach provides a generalized ...
Mideast Egypt Water
Photo caption (1/8): In this Monday, April 11, 2016 photo, An Egyptian farmer stands in front of wheat crops on his land in Kafr Hamouda village, in Zagazig, 63 miles (100 kilometers) northeast of Cairo, Egypt. Farmers ...
Assessing the Impacts of Agricultural Water Management on Ecosystem Services in the Nile Delta
The objective of this study is to test and identify appropriate water and land management strategies that will increase water and land productivity, reduce the demand for chemical fertilizers, increase farmers’ income, and ...
Managing Scarce Water Resources in Irrigated Drylands of Central Asia
Central Asian farmers use the Soviet era-developed method of irrigation which divides the irrigated areas in Hydro Module Zones (HMZ). Each HMZ has a set of crop-specific recommendations for irrigation based on a) soil ...
Valuation of Ecosystem Services for Improving Agricultural Water Management in Kazakhstan - Project Proposal, budget and Relevant publications
Project Proposal, budget and Relevant publications
On - Farm Irrigation
The present study aims at improving water management in on-farm using CropWat model.
Valuation of Ecosystem Services for Improving Agricultural Water Management in Kazakhstan - Project Briefs
Valuation of Ecosystem Services for Improving Agricultural Water Management in Kazakhstan - Project Briefs
The Interview: How can we integrate gender in the research process?
We sat with Mrs. Bezaiet Dessalegn, a livelihoods and development specialist to discuss the challenges
of integrating gender in the research process in order to increase the participation and empowerment
of women in rural ...
Importance of valuation of ecosystems services for sustainable development
Our health and well-being depends upon the services provided by ecosystems and their components: water, soil, nutrients and organisms. The ecosystem services are the processes by which the environment produces resources ...
Nitrogen Management in Calcareous Soils: Problems and Solutions
Nitrogen (N) is the most widely applied plant nutrient and is a key constituent of animal manures. Improvement in crop
yields and high economic returns have been made possible through supplementation of crops with organic ...