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1 Lefore, Nicole; Weight, Elizabet; Rubin, D. 2017. Gender in irrigation learning and improvement tool. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE). 40p. [doi: https://doi.org/10.5337/2017.203]
Gender ; Women's participation ; Men ; Equity ; Irrigation schemes ; Decision making ; Policy making ; Irrigation schemes ; Stakeholders ; Learning ; Training ; Literacy ; Land allocation ; Water resources ; Water use ; Domestic water ; Agricultural production ; Participatory approaches ; Governance ; Performance evaluation ; Investment ; Monitoring
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI Record No: H048080)
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2 Karki, M.; Gasparatos, A.; Senaratna Sellamuttu, Sonali; Kohsaka, R.; Thaman, R.; Leimona, B.; Opgenoorth, L.; Han, K. H.; Magni, P.; Saito, O.; Talukdar, G.; Zadegan, S. S.; Pandit, R.; Hyakumura, K.; Isa, S. S.; Lasmana, F. (Eds.) 2018. Setting the scene. In Karki, M.; Senaratna Sellamuttu, Sonali [IWMI]; Okayasu, S.; Suzuki, W. (Eds.); 2018. The regional assessment report on biodiversity and ecosystem services for Asia and the Pacific. Bonn, Germany: Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES). 616p. pp.1-64.
Biodiversity conservation ; Ecosystem services ; Geographical distribution ; Socioeconomic environment ; Assessment ; Environmental policy ; Governance ; Urbanization ; Local communities ; Sustainable Development Goals ; Landscape ; Land allocation ; Wetlands ; Forest management ; Grasslands ; Mangroves ; Coral reefs / Asia and the Pacific
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H049097)
https://www.ipbes.net/system/tdf/2018_asia_pacific_full_report_book_v3_pages.pdf?file=1&type=node&id=29507
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H049097.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H049097.pdf
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3 Suhardiman, Diana; Keovilignavong, Oulavanh; Kenney-Lazar, M. 2019. The territorial politics of land use planning in Laos. Land Use Policy, 83:346-356. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2019.02.017]
Land use planning ; Territories ; Political aspects ; Bureaucracy ; Local organizations ; Corporate culture ; Land governance ; Land policies ; Land allocation / Lao People's Democratic Republic
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H049143)
This paper examines land use planning processes in Laos, particularly how they are shaped and reshaped by key actors’ interests and strategies across scales and how they are closely interlinked with state logics of territorialization. It critiques dominant perspectives that view land use planning as a tool for bridging policy and institutional divides to generate holistic land governance. Instead, it presents land use planning as a function of power and a contested arena of power struggle, driven primarily by the development targets of sectoral ministries and the interests of powerful local actors. We show how bureaucratic competition and sectoral fragmentation prevail directly within Laos’s National Land Master Plan formulation process. The paper shows how the logics of land governance in Laos are comprised of a disjuncture between national and local land use planning processes and, a disconnect between formal land use planning and actual land use across scales.
4 Balana, Bedru B.; Sanfo, S.; Barbier, B.; Williams, Timothy; Kolavalli, S. 2019. Assessment of flood recession agriculture for food security in northern Ghana: an optimization modelling approach. Agricultural Systems, 173:536-543. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agsy.2019.03.021]
Agricultural practices ; Floodplains ; Water management ; Crop production ; Food security ; Models ; Supplemental irrigation ; Household income ; Food consumption ; Smallholders ; Farmers ; Rainfed farming ; Soil moisture ; Dry season ; Wet season ; Land allocation ; Communities / Ghana / White Volta River Basin / Bawku West / Talensi / West Mampurusi
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H049190)
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Food insecurity is a recurrent problem in northern Ghana. Food grown during the rainy season is often insufficient to meet household food needs, with some households experiencing severe food insecurity for up to five months in a year. Flood recession agriculture (FRA) – an agricultural practice that relies on residual soil moisture and nutrients left by receding flood water – is ordinarily practiced by farmers along the floodplains of the White Volta River in northern Ghana under low-input low-output conditions. Opportunities abound to promote highly productive FRA as a means of extending the growing season beyond the short rainy season (from May to September) into the dry season and thereby increase household income and food security of smallholder farmers. This study uses an optimization modelling approach to explore this potential by analyzing the crop mix and agricultural water management options that will maximize household income and enhance food security. Results indicate that growing cowpea, groundnut and melon under residual-moisture based FRA and high value crops (onion, pepper, and tomato) under supplementary irrigation FRA maximize household income and food security. The cash income from the sale of FRA crops was sufficient to purchase food items that ensure consumption smoothing during the food-insecure months. The study concludes that the full potential of FRA will be realized through a careful selection of crop mixtures and by enhancing access of farmers to improved seeds, integrated pest management and credit and mainstreaming FRA through targeted policy interventions and institutional support.
5 Agamile, P.; Dimova, R.; Golan, J. 2021. Crop choice, drought and gender: new insights from smallholders’ response to weather shocks in rural Uganda. Journal of Agricultural Economics, 28p. (Online first) [doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/1477-9552.12427]
Weather hazards ; Choice of species ; Drought ; Gender analysis ; Women ; Rural areas ; Smallholders ; Farmers ; Risk ; Crop water use ; Water requirements ; Land allocation ; Rain ; Households / Africa South of Sahara / Uganda
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H050250)
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.1111/1477-9552.12427?download=true
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H050250.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H050250.pdf
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We analyse gender differences in the response of smallholder farmers to droughts, taking the duration and severity of the event into account. Using a novel weather shock measure that combines spatial rainfall data with detailed cropping calendars, survey data from Uganda and standard econometric techniques, we find that adverse weather events provide an opportunity for women to enter the commercial crop market by allocating land from subsistence to income generating crops. This counterintuitive pattern is, in part, explained by the greater propensity of men to allocate time to non-agricultural activities in the event of weather shocks.
6 Saray, M. H.; Haghighi, A. T. 2023. Energy analysis in water-energy-food-carbon nexus. Energy Nexus, 11:100223. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nexus.2023.100223]
Energy consumption ; Renewable energy ; Analysis ; Carbon ; Greenhouse gas emissions ; Fossil fuels ; Water resources ; Nexus approaches ; Land use ; Land allocation ; Sustainable development ; Food production ; Food security ; Cropping patterns ; Crop rotation ; Wheat ; Barley ; Maize ; Rapeseed ; Potatoes ; Medicago sativa ; Sugar beet ; Silage ; Conservation tillage / Iran (Islamic Republic of)
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H052228)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772427123000530/pdfft?md5=39360593a8e1f30b8cddb341cbb9d2e0&pid=1-s2.0-S2772427123000530-main.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H052228.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H052228.pdf
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This study evaluated the comprehensive Water-Energy-Food-Carbon Nexus (WEFC) by focusing on energy assessment in northwest Iran. The energy evaluation indices for different products were calculated by estimating the total input and output energies. Multi-objective optimization based on five individual objectives and WEFC Nexus policies was used to identify the optimal land-use allocation of wheat, barley, rapeseed, and sugar beet, silage corn, and potato while minimizing water and energy consumption and CO2 emissions, and maximizing food production and profit. The results indicate that the suggested framework provides a practical methodology for determining the optimal land-use allocation considering quantitative WEFC Nexus. To increase economic efficiency and reduce energy consumption, agricultural practices and policy recommendations should be adopted, including promoting renewable energy sources, implementing energy-saving technologies, improving fertilizer management, improving crop rotation practices, conservation tillage, and improving water management and adoption of sustainable farming practices. The results allow policymakers to optimize multiple resources and recommend the best resource allocation under recommendation policy, technology, and constraints to achieve sustainable development in agriculture.
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