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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 ...
Gender, Tenurial niches in the Kandeu informal irrigation scheme of Malawi and their implications for drought mitigation
The presentation addresses the issue of understanding the gendered tenurial niches in the informal irrigation in the Kandeu informal irrigation scheme of Malawi and
their implications for drought mitigation, presented by ...
Shallow wells, the untapped resource with a potential to improve agriculture and food security in southern Mali
Background:
Excessive rainwater during the rainy season and lack of water in the dry season have been challenging
the agricultural productivity and food security for rural communities in southern Mali. Various soil and ...
Local conventions governing natural resource management in Southern region of Mali
Poster of Local conventions governing natural resource management in Southern region of Mali
Estimating water use efficiency under conventional and conservation soil tillage practices at Gairatdin farm in Karayuziak district of Karakalpakistan
The studies on “Water use efficiency under conventional and conservation soil tillage” has been conducted in 2015 in Karayuziak district of Karakalpakstan jointly, by ICARDA and IWMI. The report summarizes the main ...
Farmers’ Adaptation to Groundwater Shortage in the Dry Areas: Improving Appropriation or Enhancing Accommodation?
The objective of this paper is to identify farmers’ strategies to adapt to groundwater shortage in vulnerable arid areas of south Tunisia.
In the selected area, the potential of rainfed agriculture is very limited and ...
Use of Reclaimed Wastewater in Agriculture: Literature Review
Due to the rapid development of urban and rural domestic water supplies, conventional water resources have been seriously depleted and reclaimed wastewater (RWW) use for irrigation, among other non-conventional water ...
A Review of Continental-to-Global Sustainable Water Use Assessment
Freshwater scarcity and unsustainable water use are some of the growing concerns in many parts of the world. Increasing water demand accompanied by increasing climate change leads to the unsustainable use of freshwater ...
Bio-energy, water-use efficiency and economics of maize-wheat-mungbean system under precision-conservation agriculture in semi-arid agro-ecosystem
The maize-wheat-mungbean (MWMb) cropping system is being advocated as an alternative to the traditional rice-based cropping systems of north-western Indo-Gangetic Plains (IGP) to address the is- sues of energy and nutritional ...
Transhumant practices and its effects on natural resource management in the Sudano-Sahelian Zone of Mali
Poster of Transhumant practices and its effects on natural resource management in the Sudano-Sahelian Zone of Mali