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1 Dey, A.; Singh, G.; Gupta, A. K. 2018. Women and climate stress: role reversal from beneficiaries to expert participants. World Development, 103:336-359. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2017.07.026]
Climate change adaptation ; Gender ; Women's participation ; Food supply ; Human nutrition ; Sustainability ; Energy conservation ; Crops ; Varieties ; Villages ; Indigenous knowledge ; Models / India / Uttar Pradesh / Isoulibhari / Shivnathpur / Kharella
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H048594)
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Women, especially in the marginalized communities of the high-risk regions prone to flood and drought are considered most vulnerable to climate change risks. They play a very important role in household nutrition management and resource management in terms of labor, off-farm products, and small savings. In the absence of help from formal and informal R and D and technology institutions, their knowledge and resources’ exchange system has to be very robust to cope with the seasonal shortages arising due to climate fluctuations. The study found that these exchanges, spilling over caste or class boundaries, serve as valuable informal safety nets and contribute to household resilience. Researchers seeking to strengthen community coping strategies should pursue such polices and institutional interventions which strengthen women’s resource exchange and exploitation mechanisms. We offer in the end a 4-E model involving exchange, expertise, ethics, and environmental consciousness which describes how these empower women and help in articulation of their unique coping strength at intra- and inert-community levels. Lateral learning among community members sustains and enhances over time collective and household coping strategies with climate risks.
2 Ainembabazi, J. H.; Abdoulaye, T.; Feleke, S.; Alene, A.; Dontsop-Nguezet, P. M.; Ndayisaba, P. C.; Hicintuka, C.; Mapatano, S.; Manyong, V. 2018. Who benefits from which agricultural research-for-development technologies?: evidence from farm household poverty analysis in Central Africa. World Development, 108:28-46. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2018.03.013]
Agricultural research for development ; Technology assessment ; Innovation adoption ; Farmers ; Households ; Poverty ; Impact assessment ; Social welfare ; Crop production ; Varieties / Central Africa / Burundi / Democratic Republic of the Congo / Rwanda
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H048852)
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It remains a challenge for agricultural research-for-development (AR4D) institutions to demonstrate to donors which technologies contribute significantly to poverty reduction due to a multitude of impact pathways. We attempt to overcome this challenge by utilizing the potential outcomes framework and quantile treatment effects analytical approaches applied on panel household data collected from Central Africa. Our findings show that adoption of AR4D technologies reduced the probability of being poor by 13 percentage points. A large share of this poverty reduction is causally attributable to adoption of improved crop varieties (32%) followed by adoption of post-harvest technologies (28%) and crop and natural resource management (26%), with the rest 14% attributable to unidentified and/or unmeasured intermediate outcomes or factors. The findings further indicate that relatively poor farm households benefit from adopting improved crop varieties more than the relatively better-off households. Correspondingly, the relatively better off households benefit from adopting post-harvest technologies enhancing crop commercialization much more than the relatively poor households. The findings reveal interesting policy implications for successful targeting of agricultural interventions aimed at reducing rural poverty.
3 Rosenstock, T. S.; Nowak, A.; Girvetz, E. (Eds.) 2019. The climate-smart agriculture papers: investigating the business of a productive, resilient and low emission future. Cham, Switzerland: SpringerOpen. 321p. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92798-5]
Climate-smart agriculture ; Climate change adaptation ; Resilience ; Emission ; Forecasting ; Sustainable agriculture ; Farming systems ; Crop production ; Varieties ; Drought tolerance ; Nutrition ; Seed production ; Soils ; Agroforestry ; Participatory approaches ; Public-private cooperation ; Stakeholders ; Smallholders ; Farmers ; Entrepreneurship ; Income ; Agricultural extension ; Innovation ; Supply chain ; Risks ; Uncertainty ; Models ; Policies ; Households ; Welfare ; Women ; Livestock ; Infectious diseases ; Rural finance ; Traditional methods ; Stress ; Religion ; Case studies / Africa / Angola / Zimbabwe / Ethiopia / Kenya / Mozambique / Tanzania / Uganda / Namibia / Planalto / Lushoto
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H049125)
https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2F978-3-319-92798-5.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H049125.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H049125.pdf
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4 Minhas, P. S.; Qadir, M.; Yadav, R. K. 2019. Groundwater irrigation induced soil sodification and response options. Agricultural Water Management, 215:74-85. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agwat.2018.12.030]
Groundwater irrigation ; Soil amendments ; Sodic soils ; Water use ; Conjunctive use ; Infiltration water ; Alkalinity ; Irrigation water ; Irrigation scheduling ; Tillage ; Crop production ; Varieties ; Fertilizer application ; Organic fertilizers
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H049167)
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The continuous surge in irrigation, particularly using groundwater for sustaining food security in many developing countries, has necessitated the utilization of low-quality waters especially in water-scarce arid and semi-arid regions. Inappropriate irrigation with these waters results in land and environment degradation produced by associated salts, sodium and other toxic elements. Generally the soil’s sodification process is insidious and build-up of exchangeable-Na is initially gradual. It stabilises at levels governed by sodicity indices of irrigation water, soil type, cropping sequences and agro-climatic conditions. As the soils become sodic, crop productivity declines and ultimately soils can become unsuitable for cropping. As a result, cultivators are forced to opt for tolerant crops, which are typically of less economic value. To minimize harmful effects of sodicity, remedial measures have been developed at the crop, root zone, farm and district/basin levels. These include water quality driven conjunctive uses, chemical amelioration of soils and irrigation waters, mobilising native calcite through phyto-remediation, growing tolerant crops, and other specialised tillage, fertiliser use and irrigation practices. This review seeks to critically analyse the role of these measures and the crop, water and soil factors defining the sodification vis-à-vis infiltration problems. The conclusions provided here are expected to be helpful for a range of stakeholders to promote irrigation with sodic/alkali waters, thereby partly alleviating the forecasted scarcities in water for agriculture.
5 Mullick, Md. R. A.; Das, N. 2021. Estimation of the spatial and temporal water footprint of rice production in Bangladesh. Sustainable Production and Consumption, 25:511-524. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.spc.2020.12.002]
Water footprint ; Estimation ; Agricultural production ; Rice ; Varieties ; Cultivated land ; Spatial analysis ; Water resources ; Water availability ; Water use ; Sustainability ; Irrigation water / Bangladesh
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H050145)
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As Bangladesh has expanded its irrigation coverage and has become self-sufficient on rice production to feed its vast population, there has been a strain on the country's water resources. Water footprint (WF) is an effective metric that estimates the overall water use for any product or service. This study quantified the water footprints and their components for the Aus, Aman, and Boro produced in Bangladesh. The analysis was spatially distributed for the year 1997, 2007, and 2017. The combined, estimated, spatially averaged WF for all three rice varieties (based on unit production) decreased over this 20-year period (5365 m3/tonne, 3980 m3/tonne, and 3404 m3/tonne for 1997, 2007, and 2017, respectively). Irrigation-intensive Boro rice had the lowest WF with the highest contribution from the blue WF part. In contrast, the spatially averaged WF based on total production was estimated to be 98,136 Mm3/year, 115,133 Mm3/year and 123,505 Mm3/year in 1997, 2007, and 2017, respectively. This gradual increase of WF due to an increase in total rice production will affect future water availability, particularly during the irrigation-intensive dry season. Exploratory spatial clustering identified the central-north region as a High-High clustered zone for WFblue– indicating a significant pressure on water resources. As a potential means of reducing this pressure, the feasibility of switching from Boro rice to wheat has been studied. The analyses will help policymakers adopt region-specific plans for crop-related water use to ensure food security, considering water resources sustainability as a prime intent.
6 Traore, K.; Traore, B.; Diallo, A.; Synnevag, G.; Aune, J. B. 2022. Farmer participatory evaluation of sorghum varieties in flood recession agriculture systems in North-Western Mali. Agronomy, 12(6):1379. [doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy12061379]
Farmer participation ; Participatory approaches ; Sorghum ; Varieties ; Breeding ; Farming systems ; Crop yield ; Floodplains ; Soil profiles ; Food security ; Villages ; Households / Mali / Kayes / Yelimane
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H051182)
https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4395/12/6/1379/pdf?version=1654674736
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H051182.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H051182.pdf
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Flood recession farming is an important cropping system for ensuring food security in western Mali. The present study identified sorghum varieties adapted to this farming system. In the first year, numerous varieties were tested in the fields of 12 farmers. The 22 best-performing varieties, based on farmers’ scores using a preference index (PI), were further studied the following year. In the third year, the four varieties with the highest PI scores were tested against the local variety, Samé. The best-performing varieties were given the names Yélimané 1, Yélimané 2, Yélimané 3, and Yélimané 4. Across the three years, the best-performing variety, Yélimané 1, showed a 60.2% and 55.3% greater grain and stover yield, respectively, compared to the local Samé variety. The four improved varieties also reached maturity 30 days sooner than the local variety. A survey involving 101 farmers showed that the improved varieties, combined with higher plant density, seed priming and microdosing of mineral fertilizer, reduced the number of food-insecure months by 3.59 months. These varieties combined with improved agronomic practices have the potential to improve food security in flood recession areas in West Africa
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