Search
Now showing items 1-10 of 147
Land degradation and the Sustainable Development Goals: Threats and potential remedies
The concern for the well-being of land is often directly related to one’s proximity to the land, be it physically, economically or culturally. Land is more precious if one’s livelihood depend on it immediately than if one ...
Soil indicators to assess the effectiveness of restoration strategies in dryland ecosystems
Soil indicators may be used for assessing both land
suitability for restoration and the effectiveness of restoration
strategies in restoring ecosystem functioning and services. In
this review paper, several soil indicators, ...
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 ...
Supplemental Irrigation: A Highly Efficient Water‐Use Practice - 2nd Edition
Rain-fed agriculture accounts for about 80% of the world’s farmland and two-thirds
of global food production. Despite the higher risks and generally lower
productivity compared to irrigated areas, rainfed agriculture will ...
Management practices for improving water productivity in the Dasht-e-Azadegan
Wheat is the main cultivated crop in the LKRB (mainly the Dashte- Azadegan plain). Its average yield is 1500 kg/ha (Agricultural Statistics 2004). Irrigation management practices are traditional and the region suffers from ...
Methods of Soil, Plant, and Water Analysis: A manual for the West Asia and North Africa Region: Third Edition
This laboratory manual of analytical methods has been compiled to be used primarily by research
assistants, technicians and student trainees working in the laboratory. The methods have been
selected from different sources ...
Soil and water conservation effects of stone bunds at different scales – a case study from Gumara-Maksegnit watershed, Lake Tana Basin, Ethiopia
Various soil and water conservation (SWC) interventions across the Ethiopian farmlands are supposed to prevent ongoing land degradation and soil depletion related to rainfall driven soil erosion.
Water and land productivities of wheat and food legumes with deficit supplemental irrigation in a Mediterranean environment
Selecting appropriate crops and applying deficit irrigation can help increase water productivity in waterlimited
regions such as the Mediterranean. The objective of this study was to develop water production
functions of ...
Social Stabilization through Comprehensive Agricultural Support for Refugee Host Communities in Lebanon: Rainfed Agriculture
This poster made for workshop 1 "Improving agriculture and water productivity" under "Social Stabilization through Comprehensive Agricultural Support for Refugee Host Communities in Lebanon" project