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Growth and timber quality of Tectona grandis in high input plantations of Costa Rica por Pérez Cordero, L.D., Kanninen, M.

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A note on the response of sheep to differently priced sorghum stover traded concomitantly and implications for the economy of feeding por Rao, P.P., Blümmel, Michael

“…One low cost and two premium type sorghum stover purchased from fodder market in Hyderabad, India were investigated for Organic matter intake (OMI), organic matter digestibility (OMD) and organic matter intake and digestible organic matter intake (DOMI) with feeding trials on sheep. …”
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Influences of increasing temperature on Indian wheat: quantifying limits to predictability por Köhler, Ann-Kristin, Challinor, Andrew J., Hawkins, E., Asseng, Senthold

“…We used a perturbed-parameter climate model ensemble with two methods of bias-correction as input to a regional-scale wheat simulation model over India to examine future yields. This model configuration accounted for uncertainty in climate, planting date, optimization, temperature-induced changes in development rate and reproduction. …”
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Species distribution models: ecological explanation and prediction of an endemic and endangered plant species (Pterocarpus santalinus L.f.). por Babar, S., Amarnath, Giriraj, Reddy, C.S, Jentsch, A., Sudhakar, S.

“…(Red Sanders) is an endemic and endangered species largely confined to the southern portion of the Eastern Ghats, Andhra Pradesh, India. To understand its ecological and geographic distribution, we used ecological niche modelling (ENM) based on field sample-based distributional information, in relation to climatic and topographic datasets. …”
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Impact of homestead farming system on rural economy: A study in South 24 Pargana district of West Bengal por Bhattacharya, A., Deo, Ashutosh D., Sundaray, J.K., Ponniah, A.G.

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The sociology of warabandi: a case study from Pakistan por Merrey, Douglas J.

“…This was the assumption of the designers of the large irrigation systems built by the British and post colonial governments in present day Pakistan and the northwestern states of India.…”
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Reducing poverty through integrated management of groundwater and surface water por International Water Management Institute, Global Water Partnership

“…An integrated water resources management (IWRM) approach reveals opportunities to reduce poverty and improve overall agricultural productivity and sustainability in these systems. Research in India and Pakistan has highlighted one such opportunity?…”
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The multiple-use water services (MUS) project por van Koppen, Barbara, Smits, S., Moriarty, P., Vries, F.P. de, Mikhail, M., Boelee, Eline

“…The CPWF-supported project ‘Models for implementing multiple-use water supply systems for enhanced land and water productivity, rural livelihoods and gender equity’ (‘CPWF-MUS’) innovated, tested, and documented homestead-scale and communityscale models for Multiple Use water Services in 30 rural and peri-urban sites in 8 countries: the Andes (Bolivia and Colombia), Indus-Ganges (India, Nepal), Limpopo (South Africa and Zimbabwe), Mekong (Thailand) and Nile (Ethiopia). …”
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Drivers of change in fragile environments: challenges to governance in Indian wetlands por Narayanan, N.C., Venot, Jean-Philippe

“…This paper adopts a polycentric perspective to the study of wetlands management in India to assess the scope for sustainable and equitable use of these remarkable and threatened ecosystems. …”
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Water-food-energy-environment synergies and tradeoffs: major issues and case studies por McCornick, Peter G., Awulachew, Seleshi Bekele, Abebe, M.

“…Using both a brief global overview as well as a closer review of four case studies from India, Ethiopia, Jordon and the USA, this paper tries to (i) a present the nature of the tradeoffs under different hydrological, energy, agricultural and environmental contexts and (ii) provide some anecdotal evidence and illustrative cases for the available policy options for minimizing conflicts but maximizing synergies between water, energy, food and environment.…”
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Scaling-up participatory watershed management: Evidence from the Himalayan foothills por Kurian, Mathew, Dietz, T., Murali, K.S.

“…This paper presents a post-project evaluation of an award winning Joint Forest Management (JFM) program in the Shiwalik Hills, Haryana, India. The focus is on the development and management of a series of small dams which commanded the major proportion of funds in the project. …”
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Conservation and “land grabbing” in rangelands: Part of the problem or part of the solution? por Ykhanbai, H., Garg, R., Singh, A., Moiko, Stephen S., Beyene, C.E., Roe, D., Nelson, F., Blomley, T., Flintan, Fiona E.

“…This Issue Paper documents experiences from the rangelands of Mongolia, Kenya, India, Ethiopia, and other countries, which were presented at a Conference on Conservation and Land Grabbing held in London in 2013.…”
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From IWRM back to integrated water resources management por Giordano, Mark, Shah, Tushaar

“…This paper explains these issues and uses examples of transboundary water governance in general, groundwater management in India and rural–urban water transfer in China to show that there are (sometimes antithetical) alternatives to IWRM which are being successfully used to solve major water problems. …”
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Game changers for irrigated agriculture—do the right incentives exist? por Bird, Jeremy

“…WLE research has contributed to reductions in fertilizer use through substitution with reused organic waste products, improved groundwater governance in India and changing the policy framework for smallholder farmers in Africa to improve their access to simple water management technologies. …”
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Work, education and out-migration among children and youth in upland Asia: changing patterns of labour and ecological knowledge in an era of globalisation por Punch, S., Sugden, Fraser

“…In the context of ecological and economic change, this paper identifies the impact of ongoing transformations in young people's labour contribution in four natural resource-dependent regions in India, Vietnam and China. Children's work is important to maximise household labour productivity, while also endowing them with the ecological knowledge necessary to sustain key productive livelihood activities. …”
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Projected shifts in Coffea arabica suitability among major global producing regions due to climate change por Ovalle Rivera, Oriana, Läderach, Peter R.D., Bunn, Christian, Obersteiner, Michael, Schroth, Götz

“…Coffee regions in Ethiopia and Kenya are projected to become more suitable but those in India and Vietnam to become less suitable. Globally, we predict decreases in climatic suitability at lower altitudes and high latitudes, which may shift production among the major regions that produce Arabica coffee.…”
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Temperature-based phenology modeling and GIS-based risk mapping: A tool for forecasting potential changes in the abundance of Mealybug Phenacoccus solenopsis Tinsley (Hemiptera: Ps... por Fand, B.B., Tonnang, Henri E.Z., Kumar, M. Dinesh, Kamble, A.L., Bal, S.K.

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Value from faecal sludge and municipal organic waste: fertilizer cum soil conditioner in Ghana por Impraim, Robert, Nikiema, Josiane, Cofie, Olufunke O., Rao, Krishna

“…The International Water Management Institute (IWMI), since 2001. has researched into nutrient and organic matter recovery from faecal sludge and organic solid waste in Ghana and some Asian countries such as India, Sri Lanka or Bangladesh. This has led to the production of various formulations of faecal sludge based compost (with "Fortifer" as a generic 'brand '), both in the form ofpellets and powders, and specifically an ongoing project aiming at producing and commercializing the Fortifer in Ghana through a Public Private Partnership. …”
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Basin perspectives on the Water–Energy–Food Security Nexus por Lawford, R., Bogardi, J.J., Marx, S., Jain, S., Wostl, C. P., Knüppe, K., Ringler, Claudia, Lansigan, F., Meza, F.

“…These findings are based on a survey that was undertaken for the Global Catchment Initiative (GCI) within the Global Water System Project (GWSP) complemented by case studies for a transboundary basin (the Lake Winnipeg Basin), a national basin (Yellow Basin in China), and a number of the basins in a nation (India). The analysis also includes ranking of river basin issues related to the WEF Nexus based on the views of experts in nine basins. …”
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Geological and geomorphological controls on groundwater occurrence in a hard rock region por Rajaveni, S.P., Brindha, Karthikeyan, Elango, L.

“…Based on these, the mapping and identification of groundwater potential zones were carried out in a part of Nalgonda district, Telangana, India. The regions were categorised as high, moderate and low groundwater potential, and they were validated with the groundwater levels and yield of wells located in the corresponding zones. …”
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