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Gender and socially inclusive WASH in Nepal: moving beyond “technical fixes”

open access: yesFrontiers in Human Dynamics, 2023
The enactment of a new Constitution in 2015 in Nepal marked a shift to a representative system of federal governance. Earlier in 2002, the country's Tenth Five Year Plan had committed to a core focus on gender equality and social inclusion (GESI) in ...
Manohara Khadka   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Barriers to the uptake of solar-powered irrigation by smallholder farmers in sub-saharan Africa: A review

open access: yesEnergy Strategy Reviews
Irrigation expansion is critical for agricultural and rural development, food and nutrition security, and climate change adaptation in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA).
Neha Durga   +11 more
doaj   +1 more source

Concepts and applications of the Flanders Hydrological Model environment

open access: yesE3S Web of Conferences, 2016
Today, water authorities face a set of water management challenges, related to new European policies, climate change adaptation, land use planning, urban wastewater and storm water management.
Vansteenkiste Thomas   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Effect of irrigation network rehabilitation on water management-case study: Tanta Navigation canal – Egypt

open access: yesAlexandria Engineering Journal, 2019
Tanta Navigation canal is a 38.0 km long main canal serving 65,000 ha. in the Nile Middle Delta of Egypt. The main branch of Tanta canal is El-Kased canal with 34.0 km long, and serving 60% of Tanta Canal served area.The main problem was the inability to
Talaat ElGamal   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Technology for whom? Solar irrigation pumps, women, and smallholders in Nepal

open access: yesFrontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2023
Agricultural technologies are often promoted as a medium for women’s economic empowerment, which can transform unequal gender relations in rural agrarian societies.
Gitta Shrestha   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

State-of-the-art approaches for evidence-based springshed management to increase resilience to climate change in Nepal [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
• A thorough understanding of spring systems is essential to design evidence-based springshed interventions. The necessary information can be collected by conducting hydrometeorological monitoring, hydrogeological assessments and isotope analysis ...
International Water Management Institute
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Preferences of Pediatric Patients and Their Caregivers for Chemotherapy‐Induced Nausea and Vomiting Control Endpoints: A Mixed Methods Study

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Purpose Although not always achieved, complete chemotherapy‐induced nausea and vomiting (CINV) control is the conventional goal of CINV prophylaxis. In this two‐center, mixed‐methods study, we sought to understand the preferences of adolescent patients and family caregivers for CINV control endpoints.
Haley Newman   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Solar pumps and South Asia’s energy-groundwater nexus: exploring implications and reimagining its future

open access: yesEnvironmental Research Letters, 2018
South Asia’s groundwater economy stands at the threshold of a revolution in adoption of solar irrigation pumps (SIPs). This has potential to unlock the region’s perverse energy-groundwater nexus.
Tushaar Shah   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

The (Glg)ABCs of cyanobacteria: modelling of glycogen synthesis and functional divergence of glycogen synthases in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803

open access: yesFEBS Letters, EarlyView.
We reconstituted Synechocystis glycogen synthesis in vitro from purified enzymes and showed that two GlgA isoenzymes produce glycogen with different architectures: GlgA1 yields denser, highly branched glycogen, whereas GlgA2 synthesizes longer, less‐branched chains.
Kenric Lee   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Insight for sustainable supplemental irrigation development for Cocoa in changing Ghana’s agroforestry landscapes

open access: yesDiscover Sustainability
Cocoa production in Ghana faces challenges from climate change and land use dynamics, necessitating sustainable intensification through supplemental irrigation.
Seifu A. Tilahun   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

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