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Total Pages : 380 pages
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Download or read book Design for Sustainable Farmer-managed Irrigation Schemes in Sub-Saharan Africa written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Landbouwhogeschool Wageningen. Department of Irrigation and Soil and Water Conservation
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 472 pages
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Download or read book Design for Sustainable Farmer-managed Irrigation Schemes in Sub-Saharan Africa written by Landbouwhogeschool Wageningen. Department of Irrigation and Soil and Water Conservation and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent experiences are presented in 6 analytical introductions and 33 case-studies
Author : Douglas J. Merrey
Publisher : IWMI
ISBN 13 : 9290908122
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (99 download)
Download or read book Review Paper on ‘Garden Kits’ in Africa written by Douglas J. Merrey and published by IWMI. This book was released on 2014-03-01 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this paper is to synthesize the available knowledge and lessons learned from past experiences in promoting kitchen or home gardens for food production, with a special emphasis on water management. The benefits of home gardens for better family nutrition, health status of children and mothers, and as an entry point for empowering women have been documented in some studies. However, there is very little specific evidence to confirm these benefits. The paper also reviews some of the water management practices and garden technologies used in home and market gardens. It recommends building on current home gardening practices, starting with diagnostic appraisals of actual gardening practices, and moving on to participatory action research focused on evaluating promising water management technologies and testing implementation of strategies that empower women.
Author : Hilmy Sally
Publisher : IWMI
ISBN 13 : 9290904941
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (99 download)
Download or read book Private irrigation in Sub-Saharan Africa: regional Seminar on Private Sector Participation and Irrigation Expansion in Sub-Saharan Africa, Accra, Ghana, 22-26 October 2001 written by Hilmy Sally and published by IWMI. This book was released on 2011-10-21 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Only 4 percent of arable land in sub-Saharan Africa is irrigated, using just 2 percent of the available water resources. Furthermore, 18 percent of the area equipped for irrigation is not utilized at all and the intensity of use varies between 50 percent and 80 percent. This highlights the huge potential available for intensifying and expanding irrigated area, provided that the investments required can be successfully mobilized. However, it must be noted that if investments in irrigation are to yield satisfactory returns, investments must also be made in a series of related activities. Current global figures for the amount of private investment in irrigation confirm that good returns can indeed be achieved. Prospects for sub-Saharan Africa would be far more favorable if public development assistance, particularly foreign direct investments, did not show declining trends.
Author : Various Authors
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000398021
Total Pages : 1472 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Routledge Library Editions: Sustainability written by Various Authors and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-03-04 with total page 1472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 4 volumes in this set, originally published between 1988 and 1997, draw together research by leading academics in the area of sustainability and provides a rigorous examination of related key issues. The volumes examine environmental policy and plans for a sustainable future. This set will be of particular interest to students of Environmental Studies.
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Publisher : IWMI
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 49 pages
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Download or read book Gender issues and irrigation management: First annual progress report for 1993/1994 written by and published by IWMI. This book was released on with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Margreet Z. Zwarteveen
Publisher : IWMI
ISBN 13 : 9290903384
Total Pages : 21 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (99 download)
Download or read book A Plot of One's Own written by Margreet Z. Zwarteveen and published by IWMI. This book was released on 1997 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the effects of plots allocation on women’s labor contributions in the Dakiri irrigation system of Burkina Faso. Compares intra-household distribution of income derived from agricultural activities when men are the sole owners of plots to income distribution when both men and women within the same household own irrigated plots.
Author : John Gowing
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 0203477960
Total Pages : 531 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Water and the Environment written by John Gowing and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 531 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Water and the Environment" addresses imbalances between availability and demand, degradation of surface and ground waters, inter-sectorial, inter-regional and international competition in water management.
Author : Charles L. Abernethy
Publisher : IWMI
ISBN 13 : 9290904488
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (99 download)
Download or read book Intersectoral Management on River Basins written by Charles L. Abernethy and published by IWMI. This book was released on 2001 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are four papers focusing on the special recent experience of South Africa, as it replaces former inequitable water laws with a new one tq reflect its major pOlitical reorientation, and at the same time takes this opportunity of change to bring in several other principles of modern thinking about water, with a focus on participation by stakeholders, on the river-basin as management unit, on financial principles such as "users pay" and "polluters pay;' and on the potential role of access to water in addressing social issues such as poverty and gender discrimination. Conflict / Social aspects / Gender / Water law / Institutional constraints / Financing / Investment / Water scarcity / Water users' associations / Privatization / User charges / Water allocation / Political aspects / Water use efficiency / Water policy / Developing countries / Agricultural development / Poverty / Watercourses / River basins / Water management
Author : Paul Gosselink
Publisher : IWMI
ISBN 13 : 9290903228
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (99 download)
Download or read book Participatory Rural Appraisal for Irrigation Management Research written by Paul Gosselink and published by IWMI. This book was released on 1995 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Pay Drechsel
Publisher : IWMI
ISBN 13 : 9290906421
Total Pages : 43 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (99 download)
Download or read book Informal Irrigation in Urban West Africa written by Pay Drechsel and published by IWMI. This book was released on 2006 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report tries to provide a state-of-the-art overview on irrigated urban agriculture in the West African subregion based on a comprehensive literature review supported by the results of three IWMI FAO projects.
Author : James Sumberg
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136450254
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (364 download)
Download or read book Contested Agronomy written by James Sumberg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-03-15 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dramatic increases in food prices experienced over the last four years, and their effects of hunger and food insecurity, as well as human-induced climate change and its implications for agriculture, food production and food security, are key topics within the field of agronomy and agricultural research. Contested Agronomy addresses these issues by exploring key developments since the mid-1970s, focusing in particular on the emergence of the neoliberal project and the rise of the participation and environmental agendas, taking into consideration how these have had profound impacts on the practice of agronomic research in the developing world especially over the last four decades. This book explores, through a series of case studies, the basis for a much needed ‘political agronomy’ analysis that highlights the impacts of problem framing and narratives, historical disjunctures, epistemic communities and the increasing pressure to demonstrate ‘success’ on both agricultural research and the farmers, processors and consumers it is meant to serve. Whilst being a fascinating and thought-provoking read for professionals in the Agriculture and Environmental sciences, it will also appeal to students and researchers in agricultural policy, development studies, geography, public administration, rural sociology, and science and technology studies.
Author : Eric Antwi Ofosu
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 0415621038
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (156 download)
Download or read book Sustainable Irrigation Development in the White Volta sub-Basin written by Eric Antwi Ofosu and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2011-12-16 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sub-Saharan Africa has an irrigation potential of about 42 million hectares of which only 17% is developed. Despite several investments in irrigation the growth is slow. This study aims at helping to achieve sustainable irrigation in sub-Saharan Africa, through gaining a better understanding of productive irrigation water use and effective management of irrigation development. The study is conducted in the White Volta sub-basin specifically in Northern Ghana and Southern Burkina Faso which have been experiencing rapid irrigation development since the mid 1990s. The study identified growing markets for irrigated products as an important driving force behind the expansion of irrigation which has given rise to new technologies. The new technologies have spread because they gave farmers direct control over water sources. These new technologies allow relatively small farm sizes which can be adequately managed by the surveyed farmers. As a result high productivities are achieved. The hydrological impact of upscaling irrigation in the sub-basin is sustainable and will maximize the overall benefits derived from water resources in the Volta Basin.
Author : H. Roggeri
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401583986
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Tropical Freshwater Wetlands written by H. Roggeri and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wetlands could be described as land and water at Tropical wetlands: one and the same time, and as such are very specific on the brink ecosystems. Their often rich variety of resources makes them highly valuable to the peoples who live With a few exceptions (like the Everglades in the or regularly stay in them. However, access to them United States), the last remaining large wetlands are to be found in developing countries. Perhaps this can is difficult and those unaware of their services be explained by insufficient financial resources, frequently associate wetlands with such nuisances and calamities as mosquitos, disease, floods, impen lower popUlation density or a different concept of etrable wastelands, etc. As a result these areas are development and well-being. Whatever the reasons, often perceived as obstacles to human development many tropical wetlands still exist and support the and well-being. subsistence of many communities. But for how much History reflects these two views. Wetlands may longer? have been the cradle of great civilizations (like the During the last few decades tropical wetlands Maya, Inca, Aztec, Nilotic and Mesopotamian have also been destroyed or considerably altered. Dams and embankments now prevent water from civilizations), but elsewhere their destruction allowed other societies to develop. For example the Nether spreading into the floodplains of several rivers, like lands literally 'emerged from the waters' thanks to the Senegal, Volta and Nile.
Author : Carlos Garces-Restrepo
Publisher : Fao
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Irrigation Management Transfer written by Carlos Garces-Restrepo and published by Fao. This book was released on 2007 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present water report is the final product emanating from efforts by FAO, IWMI and others to document and understand the implications of the irrigation sector embarking on a wide reform process. It is intended to be a knowledge synthesis document that captures the global experiences emerging from a wide-reaching process targeting the reform of the irrigation sector. This study indicates that irrigation management transfer (IMT) is an approach for irrigation sector reform with the potential to improve the sustainability of irrigation systems. The process requires inter alia strong political commitment, negotiations among stakeholders, and long-term capacity development. Irrigation management transfer should not be seen as a process that has a clear "beginning" and "end". While the former can be more easily identified, the latter is much more difficult to determine. In fact, IMT can be the initial stage of an evolving long reform process. The accompanying CD-ROM contains IMT country profiles and case studies, an international IMT e-mail conference, a bibliography and links.--Publisher's description.
Author : Caren Grown
Publisher : Earthscan
ISBN 13 : 1844072223
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Taking Action written by Caren Grown and published by Earthscan. This book was released on 2005 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Ashok Subramanian
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780821338551
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (385 download)
Download or read book User Organizations for Sustainable Water Services written by Ashok Subramanian and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Russia is a recognized leader in forest conservation, research and development. This book analyzes the country's forest sector and the severe management problems that threaten its socioeconomic stability and environmental integrity. It outlines the significance of Russia's forest resources, review the sector's performance, identifies the key challenges, proposes and agenda for forest sector reform, and assesses the need for assistance from the international community. The book's main focus is on Siberia and the Far East. Tables, boxes and figures show various factors that contribute to and are affected by Russia's environmental problems and the expected reforms in the forest sector. Also available in Russian: Stock No. 14005 (ISBN 0-8213-4005-0).
