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New vegetation type map of India prepared using satellite remotesensing: Comparison with global vegetation maps and utilities
A seamless vegetation type map of India (scale 1: 50,000) prepared using medium-resolution IRS LISS-IIIimages is presented. The map was created using an on-screen visual interpretation technique and has anaccuracy of 90%, ...
Does improvement in irrigation technologies of winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) improve both, water and energy, productivity: case study from the Fergana valley
Improved irrigation technologies are one of the options of adaptation to growing water shortage conditions. This study, carried on loam soils of Fergana Valley with groundwater of 1.5-2 m deep, analyzed the impact of ...
Integrated watershed management in the upper catchments of Karkheh River Basin of Iran
Integrated watershed management should be pursued to improve people’s livelihoods and the ecosystem. It can be achieved when all stakeholders agree on a joint vision and action plan. Scientists should support the process ...
Wastewater Use in Agriculture: Agronomic Considerations
Under water scarce conditions and in the absence of alternative sources, wastewater generated by domestic, commercial, and industrial sectors is used worldwide to irrigate a range of crops. The sustainable use of wastewater ...
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 ...
Proceedings of the International Workshop on: Improving Water Productivity and Livelihood Resilience in Karkheh River Basin in Iran
A two-day international workshop on “Improving Water Productivity and Livelihood Resilience in Karkheh River Basin” was jointly organized by ICARDA and AREO 10-11 September, 2007 in Karaj, Iran, and the presentations are ...
Improving agricultural water productivity: Between optimism and caution
In its broadest sense, water productivity (WP) is the net return for a unit of water used. Improvement of water productivity aims at producing more food, income, better livelihoods and ecosystem services with less water. ...
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 ...
Soil Restoration After Seven Years of Exclosure Management in Nortwestern Ethiopia
Ecological restoration through exclosure establishment has become an increasingly important approach to reversing degraded ecosystems in rangelands worldwide. The present study was conducted in northwestern Ethiopia where ...
Halophytes as forages in saline landscapes: interactions between plant genotype and environment change their feeding value to ruminants
This report focuses on three factors that affect livestock production using halophytes – biomass production, nutritive value (NV) of the biomass and voluntary feed intake (VFI). The growth of halophytic forages is widely ...