Search Results - "Yellow River"

Water policy, management, and institutions: The role of pro-poor water allocation in the Yellow river basin by Wang, Jinxia, Zhang, Lijuan

“…The Yellow River Basin (YRB) is the breadbasket of China. …”
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Optional water development strategies for the Yellow River Basin: balancing agricultural and ecological water demands by Cai, Ximing, Rosegrant, Mark W.

“…The Yellow River Basin is of the utmost importance for China in terms of food production, natural resources management, and socioeconomic development. …”
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Optional water development strategies for the Yellow River Basin: balancing agricultural and ecological water demands by Xueliang Cai, Rosegrant, Mark W.

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Water management in the Yellow River Basin: background, current critical issues and future research needs by Giordano, Mark, Zhu, Zhongping, Xueliang Cai, Hong, S., Zhang, X., Xue, Y.

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Water management reforms in the Yellow River Basin: implications for water savings, farm incomes and poverty by Wang, S., Xu, Z., Huang, J., Rozelle, S., Hussain, Intizar, Biltonen, Eric

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Water-use accounts in CPWF basins: Simple water-use accounting of the Yellow River Basin by Mainuddin, M., Eastham, Judy, Kirby, M., Thomas, M.

“…This paper applies the principles of water-use accounts, developed in the first of the series, to the Yellow River basin in China. The Yellow River rises in the Bayan Har Mountains in Qinghai Province in western China, and empties into the Bohai Sea. …”
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Improving irrigation water use efficiency, productivity and equity: Simulation experiments in the downstream Yellow River Basin by Roost, N.

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Can water allocation in the Yellow River basin be improved? Insights from a multi-agent system model by Cai, Ximing, Yang, Yi-Chen E., Jianshi, Zhao, Ringler, Claudia

“…In 1999, the Government of China enforced a cross-provincial, quota-based Water Allocation Agreement that was developed in 1987 and titled Unified Water Flow Regulation (UWFR) to ensure that flow to the Yellow River mouth would not be cut off. This policy was in line with the refocus of the Government, over the last decade, on sustainable water use and keeping the Yellow River healthy. …”
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Groundwater governance in Asia: Capacity building through teaching and action research in Indo-Gangetic and Yellow River Basins by Sharma, Bharat R.

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The role of groundwater in agriculture, livelihoods and rural poverty alleviation in the Indo-Gangetic and Yellow River basins: a review by Villholth, Karen G., Mukherji, Aditi, Sharma, Bharat R., Wang, J.

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Identifying water saving opportunities: examples from three irrigation districts in China's Yellow River and Yangtze basins by Roost, N., Molden, David J., Zhu, Z., Loeve, R.

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The realities and challenges of contemporary groundwater-based smallholder irrigated farming across the Indus, Ganges and Yellow River basins by Villholth, Karen G., Mukherji, Aditi, Sharma, Bharat R., Wang, J.

“…This paper presents a synthesis of the results of a cross-regional research effort, based on surveys in more than 60 villages, to map the contemporary realities and constraints of groundwater use and adaptation in irrigated agriculture within smallholder farmer communities across the alluvial plains of the major Indus, Ganges and Yellow river basins in Asia. The results show a general over-exploitation of groundwater resources in Pakistan, western India, and China and relative under-utilization in eastern India and Bangladesh. …”
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Governance, Laws, and Water Interventions in the Yellow River Basin Over the Past 60 Years: From Supply- to Demand- Side Management by Xue, Yunpeng, Sun, Yan, Ringler, Claudia

“…For thousands of years, the Yellow River Basin (YRB) has been the cultural and economic center of China. …”
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Modeling field-scale effects of conservation agriculture practices on soil water balance in the dryland regions of the Yellow River Basin, China by Nangia, Vinay, Du, Jian Tao, Ahmad, Mobin-ud-Din, Yan, Changrong

“…Soil erosion by water is a severe problem for sustainability of agricultural systems in the dryland regions of the Yellow River Basin. Conservation agriculture (featuring reduced or zero tillage, mulch retention, crop rotations and cover crops) offers a possible solution. …”
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Regional extreme-dry-spell frequency analysis using the L-moments method in the middle reaches of the Yellow River Basin, China by She, D-X., Xia, J., Zhang, D., Ye, A.Z., Sood, Aditya

“…In this research, the regional extreme-dry-spell frequency in the middle reaches of the Yellow River Basin (YRB) is studied by the L-moments method. …”
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From colossal anarchy to sustainable development: Groundwater governance in the Indo-Gangetic and Yellow River Basins and Australia: Case studies of feasible approaches by McKay, J., Sharma, Bharat R.

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Valuing the role of living aquatic resources to rural livelihoods in multiple-use, seasonally-inundated wetlands in the Yellow River Basin of China, for improved governance by Kam, Suan Pheng

“…Supported by the CPWF, this two-year project titled “Valuing the role of living aquatic resources to rural livelihoods in multiple-use, seasonally-inundated wetlands in the Yellow River Basin of China, for improved governance” focused on linking the use of wetlands resources by local communities and value of wetlands ecosystem services with management implications for the riverine and coastal wetlands in Henan and Shandong provinces. …”
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Conservation agriculture for the dry-land areas of the Yellow River Basin: Increasing the productivity, sustainability, equity and water use efficiency of dry-land agriculture, while protecting downstream water users by International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center

“…Soil erosion is a major problem in the Yellow River Basin: the river is one of the most sediment-laden in the world. …”
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Combining urban and rural water use for a sustainable North China Plain by Kendy, E., Steenhuis, Tammo S., Molden, David J.

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Growing more rice with less water: an overview of research in Liuyuankou Irrigation System, Henan province, China by Loeve, R., Barker, Randolph, Dawe, D., Hong Lin, Dong Bin

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