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Securing Irrigation in Rainfed Areas
, 2017 The World Bank supported West Bengal Accelerated Development of Minor Irrigation Project assumes a centre stage position in the current context of bringing water to every farm (Har Khet ko Pani) under the recently launched Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayee Yojana (PMSKY).
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Local Elites in Chile's Pisco Valley: Dispossession, Legal Mobilisation and Intertwined Citizenship
Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In countries in the Global South, citizenship is often closely tied to access to water and land ownership. In Latin America, the literature has primarily explored social mobilisation and identity reconfiguration in response to development‐driven processes of land and water dispossession affecting peasants, rural and Indigenous communities ...
Chloé Nicolas‐Artero
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Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Large‐scale irrigation schemes are central to agrarian transformation in sub‐Saharan Africa, yet their political implications are often reduced to questions of land redistribution or agrarian differentiation. Although existing scholarship has documented how irrigation restructures agrarian relations and generates dispossession, less attention ...
William's Daré
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Effectes of supplemental irrigation on grain yield and its components of bread wheat genotypes in Gorgan [PDF]
فیزیولوژی محیطی گیاهی, 2009 Grain yield and its components of twenty genotypes of bread wheat evaluated and compared under rainfed and two Supplemental Irrigations at Gorgan agricultural research station in 2006-2007.
V Arazi +3 more
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The Current Adoption of Dry-Direct Seeding Rice (DDSR) in Thailand and Lessons Learned for Mekong River Delta of Vietnam [PDF]
, 2019 The paper documents the joint study trip, organized by CCAFS Southeast Asia for Vietnamese rice researchers, extension workers, as well as local decision makers, to visit Thailand in April 2018.
Ngo, Minh D +4 more
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Plant Biotechnology Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT To safeguard global food security against rapid population growth and a warming world, the effective genetic improvement of cereals is imperative. Flower opening time (FOT) critically affects the seed setting rate. In this study, we identified a gene, EARLY‐MORNING FLOWERING 3 (EMF3), in which single‐nucleotide substitutions strongly modulate ...
Takuma Ishizaki +18 more
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Evaluation of FAO AquaCrop Model for Simulating Rainfed Maize Growth and Yields in Uganda
Agronomy, 2018 Uganda’s agriculture is mainly rainfed. While farmers make efforts to increase food output to respond to the demands of a fast growing population, they are vulnerable to losses attributed to fluctuating weather patterns due to the global climate ...
Tadeo Mibulo, Nicholas Kiggundu
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Impact of simulated airborne soot on maize growth and development [PDF]
, 2012 Various effects of the dry deposition of soot on maize were investigated in Keszthely (Hungary) in two consecutive years. In order to be able to study a wider range of weather conditions, some of the plants were placed in a Thorn-thwaite-Matter type ...
Anda, Angéla, Illés, Bernadett
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Plant, Cell &Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The increasing frequency of concurrent heat and drought stress poses a significant challenge to agricultural productivity, particularly for cool‐season grain legumes, including broad bean (Vicia Faba L.), lupin (Lupinus spp.), lentil (Lens culinaris Medik), chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.), grasspea (Lathyrus sativus L.), pea (Pisum sativum L ...
Manu Priya +2 more
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Water security for food security: findings of the Comprehensive Assessment for Sub-Saharan Africa. [This report draws directly from the book Water for food, water for life: a Comprehensive Assessment of Water Management in Agriculture]. [PDF]
Rainfed farmingIrrigated farmingFood securityWater ...
Molden, David
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