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Transforming Agricultural Water Management Through the Water–Energy–Food Nexus: Trends, Opportunities, Barriers and Solutions

Irrigation and Drainage, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Agricultural water management (AWM) is increasingly transitioning towards transformative thinking, where interconnected sectors, including water, energy and food, are managed holistically. Trends point towards cross‐sectoral and harmonised strategies to optimise water use efficiency and productivity, integrate renewable energy, promote ...
Luxon Nhamo, Cuthbert Taguta, Sylvester Mpandeli, Tinashe Dirwai, Stanley Liphadzi, Tafadzwanashe Mabhaudhi   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

iomass production and grain yield of three sorghum lines differing in drought resistance

, 2012
Sergio Castro-Nava, J. Ortíz-Cereceres, María del Carmen Mendoza-Castillo, A.J. Huerta   +3 more
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Towards Water, Food and Energy Security: The Global Challenges and Possible Solutions for a Holistic Vision of Sustainability

Irrigation and Drainage, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This invited paper gives an overview of the challenges the world is facing and offers a possible solution for water and food security within the holistic integrated concept of the water–energy–food (WEF) nexus. The paper summarizes the experience the author gained through working on various research projects at national and international ...
Ragab Ragab
wiley   +1 more source

Mechanisms of drought resistance in grain legumes I: Osmotic adjustment

, 2004
Tilahun Amede, Sven Schubert, Karl Stahr
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Understory plant communities show resistance to drought, hurricanes, and experimental warming in a wet tropical forest

, 2022
Aura M. Alonso‐Rodríguez, Tana E. Wood, Jamarys Torres‐Díaz, Molly A. Cavaleri, Sasha C. Reed, Bénédicte Bachelot   +5 more
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Enhancing Drought Tolerance and Striga hermonthica Resistance in Maize Using Newly Derived Inbred Lines from the Wild Maize Relative, Zea diploperennis [PDF]

, 2021
Abdulwahab S. Shaibu, Baffour Badu‐Apraku, M. A. Ayo-Vaughan   +2 more
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Workfare and forest cover: The case of NREGS in India

Journal of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, EarlyView.
Abstract We examine the impacts of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS), the world's largest workfare program, on forest cover as proxied by vegetation density. We estimate null effects on vegetation for the overall sample as well as for the subsample where we are best able to isolate changes in forest cover, but we find ...
Shourish Chakravarty, Conner Mullally, Jared Gars, Monojit Saha   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Putative megaenzyme DWA1 plays essential roles in drought resistance by regulating stress-induced wax deposition in rice [PDF]

, 2013
Xiaoyi Zhu, Lizhong Xiong
openalex   +1 more source

Wild Animal Suffering Is Not Intractable: A Precautionary Approach to Compassionate Intervention

Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Wild animals suffer due to human activity, yet natural factors contribute far more significantly to their suffering. In light of this, some propose that we have a pro tanto obligation to intervene in ecosystems to improve wild animal welfare.
Tristan Katz
wiley   +1 more source

Effects of Plant Densities under Two Irrigation Regimes on Leaf Water Potential, Leaf Diffusive Resistance during Drought Stress Period and Grain Yield of Grain Sorghum

, 1978
Shigeru INUYAMA
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