Author : Merrey, D. J.
Publisher : International Water Management Institute (IWMI)
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 34,86 MB
Release : 2018-12-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9290908769
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,37 MB
Release : 2018
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Author : John A. Dixon
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 11,95 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789251046272
A joint FAO and World Bank study which shows how the farming systems approach can be used to identify priorities for the reduction of hunger and poverty in the main farming systems of the six major developing regions of the world.
Author : International Development Research Centre (Canada)
Publisher : IDRC
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 33,75 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Water resources development
ISBN : 088936804X
Water Management in Africa and the Middle East: Challenges and Opportunities
Author : Sarpong, D. B.
Publisher : IWMI
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 41,18 MB
Release : 2022-12-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN :
Based on a systematic literature review using scientific database search engines and an opportunistic review of published and unpublished government, international and nongovernmental organization reports on cocoa from the internet, the paper explores sustainable irrigation financing feasibility and the potential for different cocoa systems. We design a conceptual framework and propose a sustainable financing ecosystem for supplemental irrigated cocoa farming in Ghana and a qualitative data collection tool based on the conceptual framework and insights from the literature review.
Author : Sergio Gomez y Paloma
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 18,58 MB
Release : 2020-01-01
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : 3030421481
This open access book discusses the current role of smallholders in connection with food security and poverty reduction in developing countries. It addresses the opportunities they enjoy, and the constraints they face, by analysing the availability, access to and utilization of production factors. Due to the relevance of smallholder farms, enhancing their production capacities and economic and social resilience could produce positive impacts on food security and nutrition at a number of levels. In addition to the role of small farmers as food suppliers, the book considers their role as consumers and their level of nutrition security. It investigates the link between agriculture and nutrition in order to better understand how agriculture affects human health and dietary patterns. Given the importance of smallholdings, strategies to increase their productivity are essential to improving food and nutrition security, as well as food diversity.
Author : B. G. Sims
Publisher : FAO
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 27,96 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN :
Many previous publications on farm mechanization, draught animal power, hand tool technology, etc. have tended to be narrowly focused. The topic of farm power and mechanization also tended to be separated from the actual process of growing crops. This manual looks at putting the different sources of farm power, mechanization, machines, equipment and tools in a much broader context. Farm power requirements need to be viewed with reference to rural livelihoods and to farming systems as well as to the critical area of labour saving in HIV/AIDS-hit populations. No one particular type of technology is advocated.
Author : Saruchera, D.
Publisher : IWMI
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 17,36 MB
Release : 2019-11-04
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9290908890
Author : McCarthy, Nancy
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 57 pages
File Size : 22,62 MB
Release : 2023-04-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN :
Irrigation is increasingly being called upon to help stabilize and grow food and water security in the face of multiple crises; these crises include climate change, but also recent global food and energy price crises, including the 2007/08 food and energy price crises, and the more recent crises triggered by the COVID 19 pandemic and the war on Ukraine. While irrigation development used to focus on public, large-scale, surface- and reservoir-fed systems, over the last several decades, private small-scale investments in groundwater irrigation have grown in importance and are expected to see rapid future growth, particularly in connection with solar-powered pumping systems. But is irrigation ‘fit-for-purpose’ to support population growth, economic development, and multiple food, energy and climate crises? This paper reviews how fit-for-purpose irrigation is with a focus on economies of scale of surface and groundwater systems, and a particular examination of systems in Sub-Saharan Africa where the need for expansion is largest. The review finds challenges for both larger surface and smaller groundwater systems in the face of growing demand for irrigated agriculture and dwindling and less reliable water supplies. To support resilience of the sector, we propose both a holistic design and management improvement agenda for larger surface systems, and a series of suggestions to improve sustainability concerns of groundwater systems
Author : Otsuka, Keijiro, ed.
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 798 pages
File Size : 21,57 MB
Release : 2021-01-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0896293831
Agricultural Development: New Perspectives in a Changing World is the first comprehensive exploration of key emerging issues facing developing-country agriculture today, from rapid urbanization to rural transformation to climate change. In this four-part volume, top experts offer the latest research in the field of agricultural development. Using new lenses to examine today’s biggest challenges, contributors address topics such as nutrition and health, gender and household decision-making, agrifood value chains, natural resource management, and political economy. The book also covers most developing regions, providing a critical global perspective at a time when many pressing challenges extend beyond national borders. Tying all this together, Agricultural Development explores policy options and strategies for developing sustainable agriculture and reducing food insecurity and malnutrition. The changing global landscape combined with new and better data, technologies, and understanding means that agriculture can and must contribute to a wider range of development outcomes than ever before, including reducing poverty, ensuring adequate nutrition, creating strong food value chains, improving environmental sustainability, and promoting gender equity and equality. Agricultural Development: New Perspectives in a Changing World, with its unprecedented breadth and scope, will be an indispensable resource for the next generation of policymakers, researchers, and students dedicated to improving agriculture for global wellbeing.
