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Assessment of risk premium in farm technology adoption as a climate change adaptation strategy in the dryland systems of India
Purpose: Changing climate has increasingly become a challenge for smallholder farmers.
Identification of technical, institutional and policy interventions as coping and adaptation
strategies, and exploring risks of their ...
Beyond the state order? Second crop production in the Ferghana Valley, Uzbekistan
After independence in 1991, Uzbekistan introduced a policy on food security and consequently
reduced the irrigated area allocated to cotton and increased the area of winter wheat.
Shifting to winter wheat allowed farmers ...
Mapping of groundwater potential zones across Ghana using remote sensing, geographic information systems, and spatial modeling
Groundwater development across much of
sub-Saharan Africa is constrained by a lack of knowledge
on the suitability of aquifers for borehole construction.
The main objective of this study was to map
groundwater potential ...
Empirical evaluation of sustainability of divergent farms in the dryland farming systems of India
The present study argues that there are heterogeneous farm systems within the drylands and each farm
system is unique in terms of its livelihood asset and agricultural practice, and therefore in sustainability.
Our method ...