Resultados de búsqueda - "river"

Irrigation and agricultural transformation in Ethiopia por Mekonnen, Dawit Kelemework, Abate, Gashaw T., Yimam, Seid

“…Ethiopia’s rivers and streams (Figure 1) and its ground water potential of 2.6 billion m3 of groundwater potential (Awulachew et al., 2008) is estimated to have a potential to irrigate 5.3 million hectares of land. …”
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Measuring livelihoods and environmental dependence: methods for research and fieldwork por Angelsen, A., Larsen, H.O., Lund, J.F., Smith-Hall, C., Wunder, Sven

“…Quantifying households' dependence on multiple environmental resources (forests, bush, grasslands and rivers) is particularly difficult and often simply ignored in the surveys. …”
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Spatial variation in the willingness to accept payments for conservation of a migratory wildlife corridor in the Athi-Kaputiei Plains, Kenya por Leeuw, Jan de, Said, Mohammed Yahya, Kifugo, S.C., Ogutu, Joseph O., Osano, Philip M.

“…We model the relation between WTA and distances to roads, towns and rivers, annual precipitation and slope and display the predicted spatial variation in WTA. …”
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Recommendations for the regionalizing of coffee cultivation in Colombia: a methodological proposal based on agro-climatic indices por García López, Juan Carlos, Posada Suárez, Húver, Läderach, Peter R.D.

“…Altitude notably influenced zone differentiation, however other factors such as large air currents, low-pressure atmospheric systems, valleys of the great rivers, and physiography also played an important role. …”
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Effect of soil fertility on host response to black leaf streak of plantain (Musa spp. AAB group) under traditional farming systems in southwestern Nigeria por Mobambo, K.N., Zuofa, K.E., Gauhl, F., Adeniji, M., Pasberg-Gauhl, C.

“…An on‐farm survey for BLS severity in relation to soil fertility was conducted in two different geomorphological zones, the main plantain‐growing areas of Rivers State where plantain is mostly cultivated in compound gardens and in outlying fields mixed with other food crops. …”
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Tanzania Country Climate Risk Profile Series. Iringa District por International Center for Tropical Agriculture, CARE Tanzania

“…Associated effects of these changes include geographic shifts of agro-ecological zones (AEZs), rainfall variability, prolonged dry spells, and reduction of water volumes in rivers, lakes, and other water bodies. Climate projections indicate that the adverse effects of climate change are expected to increase in magnitude in the coming years. …”
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Supply- and demand-side management of water in Gujarat, India: What can we learn? por Kishore, Avinash

“…Farmers, farm communities and the state government in Gujarat have responded to this requirement by implementing large-scale water supply and demand management projects like interlinking of rivers, the world's largest popular recharge movement, electricity distribution reforms to limit use of subsidized energy for groundwater irrigation and rapid expansion of areas under micro-irrigation. …”
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Principles, barriers, and challenges of Indigenous water governance around the world por Kehinde, M. O., Bharadwaj, L. A., Bataebo, S., Schuster-Wallace, C. J.

“…These must focus on the overall health of the rivers, lakes, or freshwater entity and the holistic health of communities and be preceded by genuine nation-to-nation relationships.…”
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Village Baseline Study: Site Analysis Report for Kagera Basin – Rakai, Uganda por Onyango, Leah, Mango, Joash, Zziwa, A., Kurui, Zena, Wamubeyi, B., Sseremba O, Asiimwe, J.

“…Nonetheless, there is a general decline in the state of natural resources such as rivers, lakes and forests, and the current use of the same resources is not sustainable over time. …”
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Village Baseline Study: Site Analysis Report for Usambara – Lushoto, Tanzania (TZ0105) por Onyango, Leah, Mango, Joash, Kurui, Zena, Wamubeyi, B., Basisi H, Musoka E, Sayula, George

“…It also calls for promoting agroforestry systems in the farmlands and allowing riverine vegetation to mature, in order to ensure clean waters in the rivers. The discussion groups identified 32 organisations, and 60% of them were involved in food security assistance, prioritizing food availability. …”
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Improving crop water productivity under stressed environment por Sharma, Bharat R.

“…As a consequence, pollution is increasing and rivers are drying up because of greater agricultural production and water consumption; land and water resources are being stressed through erosion, salinization, nutrient depletion and the intrusion of seawater; and groundwater levels are declining rapidly in densely populated areas of North Africa, North China, India, and Mexico because of overexploitation. …”
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Integrating gender considerations in rice research for development in Africa por Agboh-Noameshie, A.R., Kabore A, Misiko, Michael T.

“…In Mali, rice was traditionally grown only by women near rivers and wetlands (Synnevag, 1997, cited by FAO, 2004b). …”
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Gobernanza para la gestión forestal en las microcuencas de los ríos La Esperanza y Lancetilla, del Bosque Modelo Atlántida, Honduras por Ponce Salgado, J.A.

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Elite domination of Freshwater Canals in Southwest Bangladesh: A Feminist Political Ecology Analysis por Sarker, Mou Rani, Mannan, Fouzia, Rahman, M. Mokhlesur

“…Freshwater canals - the drainage peripheries of large rivers are the lifeline to water access and availability for crop, livestock, and fish production and processing for large numbers of smallholder farmers in southwestern Bangladesh, who grapple with severe challenges of saline water intrusion and waterlogging in the region. …”
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Commoning the commons: A sourcebook to strengthen management and governance of water as commons por Foundation for Ecological Security, International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, International Food Policy Research Institute

“…There is also an increasing attention to issues of universal and equitable access, water-use efficiency, protecting and restoring water related ecosystems (mountains, forests, wetlands, rivers, aquifers and lakes) (Goal 6, Sustainable Development Goals).…”
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Growing enough food without enough water por David, S.

“…With several water-related limits reached or breached - groundwater decline, shrinking rivers and threatened fisheries - we must ask, 'Will there be enough water to grow enough food? …”
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From shifting cultivation to teak plantation: effect on overland flow and sediment yield in a montane tropical catchment por Ribolzi, Olivier, Evrard, O., Huon, S., Rouw, Anneke de, Silvera, N., Latsachack, K.O., Soulileuth, B., Lefevre, I., Pierret, A., Lacombe, Guillaume, Sengtaheuanghoung, Oloth, Valentin, Christian

“…Soil erosion supplies large quantities of sediments to rivers of Southeastern Asia. It reduces soil fertility of agro-ecosystems located on hillslopes, and it degrades, downstream, water resource quality and leads to the siltation of reservoirs. …”
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Prospects and determinants of adoption of IITA plantain and banana based technologies in three Niger Delta States of Nigeria por Faturoti, B.O., Emah, G.N., Isife, B.I., Tenkouano, A., Lemchi, J.

“…Average adoption level was 40.33% ranging from Rivers 36%, Akwa-Ibom 38% and Bayelsa 47%. The adoption process was strongly influenced by household size, educational attainment, farming experience, frequency of extension visit, overall experience from innovation, market access, access to credit and profit as a result of the technology. …”
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Aspects of erosion of restored trout spawning beds in two streams in Northern Sweden por Granlund, Frida Michelle

“…Many rivers and streams in northern Sweden have been channelized due to timber floating. …”

Masculinities and hydropower in India: a feminist political ecology perspective por Shrestha, Gitta, Joshi, Deepa, Clement, Floriane

“…We adopt a feminist political ecology lens to analyse some of the barriers to reduce social inequalities in the management of global commons such as international rivers. Our findings highlight the leap of faith made in the belief that gender toolkits, as they exist, will filter through layers of a predominantly masculine institutional culture to enable change in ground realities of complex inequalities by gender. …”
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