The realities and challenges of contemporary groundwater-based smallholder irrigated farming across the Indus, Ganges and Yellow River basins

Groundwater has played an increasing role in irrigated farming, livelihood support, poverty alleviation, and national food security in India, China, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Nepal since the advent of the green revolution in the 1960s. This paper presents a synthesis of the results of a cross-region...

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Main Authors: Villholth, Karen G., Mukherji, Aditi, Sharma, Bharat R., Wang, J.
Format: Conference Paper
Language:Inglés
Published: 2009
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/38723

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