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1 Mapedza, Everisto; Amede, Tilahun; Geheb, Kim; Peden, D.; Ayalneh, W.; Faki, H.; Mpairwe, D.; Alemayehu, M.; Boelee, Eline; van Hoeve, E.; van Koppen, Barbara; Tegegne, S. D.; Descheemaeker, Katrien. 2010. Gendered aspects of livestock-water interactions in the Nile River Basin. In Institute of Water and Sanitation Development. 11th WaterNet/WARFSA/GWP-SA Symposium, Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, 27-29 October 2010. IWRM for national and regional integration: where science, policy and practice meet: water and society. Harare, Zimbabwe: Institute of Water and Sanitation Development (IWSD). pp.191-211.

Gender ; Livestock ; Water productivity ; Women ; Households ; Case studies / Ethiopia / Sudan / Uganda / Africa South of Sahara / Nile River Basin

(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H043403)

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Gender is central in understanding crop and livestock systems within the developing world. The different roles and responsibilities that society ascribes to both men, women, children and the different age groups will impact on the innovations within the Livestock Water Productivity in the Nile Basin. Livestock can be a mechanism for improving the livelihoods of the rural farmers in the Nile Basin. It is however important to understand who benefits from such livestock innovations and improvements. Using a gender disaggregated approach will shade more light on the costs and benefits from the improved livestock water interactions. This study focused on the costs and benefits for women and men but do appreciate that gender goes beyond women and men. The major findings were that for successful poverty alleviation, it is important to understand which types of livestock are benefitting women, men and children and under what circumstances they have improved the livelihoods of the poor. This paper attempts to make such an assessment for Ethiopia, Sudan and Uganda.

2 Yayeh, S. G.; Alemayehu, M.; Haileslassie, Amare; Dessalegn, Y. 2017. Economic and agronomic optimum rates of NPS fertilizer for irrigated garlic (Allium sativum L) production in the highlands of Ethiopia. Cogent Food and Agriculture, 3(1):1-10. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/23311932.2017.1333666]

Economic analysis ; Agronomy ; Fertilizer application ; Crop production ; Plantation crops ; Garlic ; Highlands ; Irrigation systems ; Biomass ; Living standards ; Productivity ; Nutrients / Ethiopia / Yilmana Densa

(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H048178)

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Field experiment has been conducted in Yilmana Densa District during the 2014/2015 irrigation season with the objective of identifying the economical and agronomically optimum rate of the newly introduced NPS fertilizer for garlic production under irrigated smallholder farming system in the Highlands of Northwestern Ethiopia. Twelve NPS fertilizer rates, laid down on Randomized Complete Block Design with three replications were tested on local garlic variety. Accordingly, most of the growth and yield parameters were significantly affected by NPS fertilizer rates where non-fertilized plants were inferior in all parameters. Significantly highest plant height (69.23 cm) and above ground biomass (25.33 g) were recorded on garlic plants supplied with N:P2O5:S at the rate of 105:122.6:22.6 kg ha-1. Similarly, the biggest bulb diameter (4.27 cm) and the highest leaf number (13.4) as well as marketable (17.42 t ha-1) and total bulb yields (17.8 t ha-1) were recorded on plants which were supplied with 140:122.6:22.6 kg ha-1 N:P2O5:S that were similar with the effects of N:P2O5:S at the rate of 140:92:17 kg ha-1. N:P2O5:S at the rate of 140:92:17 kg ha-1 recorded the highest marginal rate of return that can be recommended to increase the yield of garlic and thus to improve the livelihoods of farmers in the study area.