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1 Rafsnider, G. T.; Skold, M. D.; Sampath, R. K. 1987. Range survey cost sharing and the efficiency of rangeland use. Land Economics, 63(1):92-101.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: P 2757 Record No: H012663)
2 Richardson, S. B.; Narayan, K. A. 1995. The effectiveness of management options for dryland salinity control at Wanilla, South Australia. Agricultural Water Management, 29(1):63-83.
Salinity control ; Groundwater extraction ; Catchment areas ; Recharge ; Models ; Calibrations ; Crop production ; Grassland management / Australia
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: PER Record No: H017783)
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3 Fairclough, A. J. (Ed.) 1999. Sustainable agriculture solutions: The action report of the Sustainable Agriculture Initiative. London, UK: Novello Press Ltd. 317p. (Sustainable Agriculture Initiative microsectoral report series)
Sustainable agriculture ; Agricultural economics ; Food security ; Agricultural policy ; Land reform ; Environmental effects ; Water use ; Rural development ; Telecommunications ; Risks ; GIS ; Non-governmental organizations ; Agricultural research ; Land management ; Grassland management ; Soil fertility ; Afforestation ; Farmers' attitudes ; Salinity ; Sodic soils ; Erosion ; Desertification ; Water scarcity ; Water use efficiency ; Productivity ; Irrigation systems ; Water resource management ; Groundwater ; Water quality ; Water user associations ; Crop production ; Pest control ; Air pollution ; Plant propagation ; Rice ; Potatoes ; Fertilizers ; Storage ; Livestock ; Animal husbandry ; Deforestation ; Farming systems ; Cropping systems ; Agroforestry ; Fisheries ; Energy ; Electricity supplies / Brazil / China / West Africa / USA
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 338.1 G000 FAI Record No: H024797)
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4 Douglass, W.; Poulton, D. 2000. "Living with limited water:" towards efficient water use on irrigated dairy pastures. ICID Journal, 49(2):29-40.
Water use efficiency ; Irrigation efficiency ; Water distribution ; Grassland management ; Farms ; Irrigation scheduling ; Flood irrigation ; Simulation models ; Sprinkler irrigation / Australia / Northern Victoria
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: PER Record No: H026568)
5 Oswal, M. C. 1999. Watershed management: for dryland agriculture. New Delhi, India: Associated Publishing Co. viii, 201p.
Watershed management ; Planning ; Catchment areas ; Social participation ; Dry farming ; Soil conservation ; Erosion ; Surface drainage ; Cropping systems ; Climate ; Rainfall-runoff relationships ; Estimation ; Sedimentation ; Water storage ; Reservoirs ; Dams ; Seepage ; Land development ; Grassland management ; Water harvesting ; Water use efficiency ; Furrow irrigation ; Irrigation design ; Monitoring ; Economic analysis ; Remote sensing ; GIS / India / Bunga Watershed
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 333.91 G635 OSW Record No: H026730)
6 Machatschek, M. 2000. Erfahrungen zur Melioration von Borstgrasweiden (Nardetum) unter dem Einfluss von Wasserung, Weideorganisation und Pferchen auf osterreichischen und schweizer Almen. [Experiences to improve alpine pastures obtained by irrigation and folding cattle in Australia and Switzerland]. Journal of Applied Irrigation Science, 35(2):245-255.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: PER Record No: H027800)
7 Blank, H. G.; Mutero, C. M.; Murray-Rust, H. (Eds.) 2002. The changing face of irrigation in Kenya: opportunities for anticipating changes in Eastern and Southern Africa. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). xiv, 329p. [doi: https://doi.org/ 10.3910/2010.006]
Small scale systems ; Environmental effects ; Government managed irrigation systems ; Farmer managed irrigation systems ; Health ; Waterborne diseases ; River basins ; Pest control ; Social impact ; Water policy ; Water law ; Institutional development ; Water allocation ; Drip irrigation ; Pumps ; Technology ; GIS ; Databases ; Irrigation programs ; Drainage ; Water resource management ; Economic aspects ; Social aspects ; Water scarcity ; Conflict ; Case studies ; Land management ; Sedimentation ; Flood control ; Wetlands ; Water quality ; Erosion ; Grassland management ; Livestock ; Rain ; Drought ; Participatory management ; Design ; Credit ; Horticulture ; Farmers’ associations ; Farmers’ attitudes ; Gender ; Rice ; Legislation ; Land tenure ; Cooperatives ; Farmer-led irrigation ; Income / Southern Africa / Eastern Africa / Kenya / Upper Ewaso Ng’iro North Basin / Lake Victoria Basin / Tana River Basin / Mwea Irrigation Scheme
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI 631.7 G140 BLA Record No: H030816)
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8 Squires, V.R.; Sidahmed, A.E. 1998. Drylands: sustainable use of rangelands into the twenty-first century. Rome, Italy: IFAD. xvi, 470p.
Grassland management ; Remote sensing ; Nomadism ; Arid zones ; Land degradation ; Sustainable development ; Environmental monitoring / Middle East
(Location: IWMI-SEA Call no: 333.74 G000 SQU Record No: BKK-112)
Papers presented at a workshop held in Jeddah, 3 to 6 November 1996
9 Hegde, N. G.; Sharma, M. S.; Rawal, R. 2003. Community pasture development: A sustainable model for food and ecological security in Rajasthan. Indian Farming, 52(10):26-29.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: P 6336 Record No: H032312)
10 Kamara, A.; Swallow, B.; Kirk, M. 2002. Role of policies and development interventions in pastoral resource management: the Borana rangelands in southern Ethiopia. Nairobi, Kenya: International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI); Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). vii, 34p. (ILRI Socio-economics and Policy Research Working Paper 53)
Grassland management ; Peasant workers ; Institutional development ; Policy ; Drought ; Land use / Ethiopia
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI 636 G136 KAM Record No: H032442)
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The Borana rangelands of southern Ethiopia are characterised by extensive livestock production in response to the area’s natural characteristics - aggregate mean rainfall ranges between 300 and 900 mm per annum with high seasonal and inter-annual variability. Though traditionally transhumant pastoralists, the Boranas have recently increased their reliance on crops, with evidence of communal pastures becoming either privatised, or accessible to only a small sub-group of individuals or households. Built on earlier quantitative assessment of the socio-economic drivers of the above changes, this paper focuses on the role of national level policies implemented in the area over the past decades, and how these have affected the traditional institutional setting that determines land use, property rights and pathways of livestock development. Intensive literature review was combined with in-depth key informant and group interviews to identify key policies and interventions, assess their impacts and explore the responses and strategies adopted at both individual and community levels to cope with the changing situation. While acknowledging the role of demographic and market forces as highlighted in the quantitative assessment, the paper concludes that different pathways from transhumant pastoralism have been shaped by policies and external interventions.
11 Tadesse, G.; Peden, D. 2003. Livestock grazing impact on vegetation, soil and hydrology in a tropical highland watershed. In McCornick, P. G.; Kamara, A. B.; Tadesse, G. (Eds). Integrated water and land management research and capacity building priorities for Ethiopia: proceedings of a MoWR/EARO/IWMI/ILRI International Workshop held at ILRI, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 2-4 December 2002. Nairobi, Kenya: International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI); Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI); Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: Ethiopian Ministry of Water Resources; Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: Ethiopian Agricultural Research Organization. pp.87-97.
Livestock ; Grassland management ; Watersheds ; Hydrology ; Runoff ; Measurement ; Infiltration / Ethiopia / Ginchi
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: IWMI 333.91 G636 MCC Record No: H032452)
12 Suenaga, K.; Oshibe, A.; Taniguchi, T. (Eds.) 2004. Development of sustainable agro-pastoral systems in the subtropical zone of Brazil. Tsukuba, Japan: JIRCAS. iii, 81p. (JIRCAS working report no.36)
Pastoralism ; Grassland management ; Soil fertility ; Nitrogen ; Fertilizers ; Recycling ; Environmental degradation ; Wetlands ; Economic evaluation / Brazil
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 633.202 G514 SUE Record No: H035349)
13 Holden, N. M.; Brereton, A. J. 2002. An assessment of the potential impact of climate change on grass yield in Ireland over the next 100 years. Irish Journal of Agricultural and Food Research, 41:213-226.
Climate change ; Agroclimatology ; Forecasting ; Pastures ; Grassland management ; Livestock ; Simulation models / UK / Ireland
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: P 7367 Record No: H037153)
14 Smeal, D; O’Neill, M. K.; Arnold, R. N. 2005. Forage production of cool season pasture grasses as related to irrigation. Agricultural Water Management, 76(3):224-236.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: PER Record No: H037144)
15 Geerken, R.; Ilaiwi, M. 2004. Assessment of rangeland degradation and development of a strategy for rehabilitation. Remote Sensing of Environment, 90:490-504.
Remote sensing ; Erosion ; Sedimentation ; Barley ; Rain-fed farming ; Grassland management ; Overgrazing ; Rehabilitation / Syria / Bishri Mountain
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: P 7654 Record No: H039400)
16 Aynekulu, E.; Mekuria, Wolde; Tsegaye, D.; Feyissa, K.; Angassa, A.; de Leeuw, J.; Shepherd, K. 2017. Long-term livestock exclosure did not affect soil carbon in southern Ethiopian rangelands. Geoderma, 307:1-7. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2017.07.030]
Grassland management ; Rangelands ; Carbon sequestration ; Soil sampling ; Soil properties ; Land degradation ; Ecosystem services ; Dry season ; Semiarid zones ; Savannas / Ethiopia
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H048465)
Controlled grazing management is considered as an effective strategy to enhance soil carbon sequestration, but empirical evidences are scarce. Particularly, the role of livestock exclusion related to soil carbon sequestration is not well understood in arid and semiarid savannas of Africa. We investigated the effectiveness of long-term (14–36 years old) exclosures in enhancing soil carbon in the semiarid savanna, southern Ethiopia. We tested for differences in soil carbon content between exclosures and adjacent open-grazed rangelands, while accounting for effects of age of exclosures and soil depths. We collected soil samples at two soil depths (0–20 cm and 20–50 cm depths) from 96 plots from 12 exclosure and adjacent open grazing sites. We found no significant differences (P > 0.05) between exclosures and adjacent open-grazed rangelands in soil carbon content in both soil depths. The age chronosequence further suggested a weak non-linear trend in increasing soil carbon content with increasing duration of exclosures. These results thus challenge the opinion that controlled grazing enhances soil carbon sequestration in semiarid savannas. However, we remain cautious in regard to the conclusiveness of these findings given the paucity of information regarding other confounding factors which may disentangle the effects of the exclosure, and most importantly in the absence of soil data prior to exclosures.
17 Leh, Mansoor D.K.; Sharpley, A. N.; Singh, G.; Matlock, M. D. 2018. Assessing the impact of the MRBI [Mississippi River Basin Healthy Watersheds Initiative] program in a data limited Arkansas Watershed using the SWAT model. Agricultural Water Management, 202:202-219. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agwat.2018.02.012]
Watersheds ; Resource conservation ; Best practices ; Development programmes ; Water quality ; Stream flow ; Ponds ; Wetlands ; Soils ; Land use ; Simulation models ; Crop management ; Cover plants ; Grassland management ; Forage ; Biomass production / USA / Arkansas / Lake Conway Point Remove Watershed / Mississippi River Basin
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H048717)
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The USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) developed the Mississippi River Basin Healthy Watersheds Initiative (MRBI) program to improve the health, water quality and wildlife habitat within the Mississippi River Basin. Lake Conway Point Remove (LCPR) watershed was identified as one of the watersheds for the MRBI program implementation. The goal of this paper is to evaluate the effectiveness of the MRBI program in LCPR watershed using a computer simulation model. Seven best management practices (BMPs) (pond, wetland, pond and wetland, cover crops, vegetative filter strips, grassed waterways and forage and biomass planting) were modelled under four placement strategies: random placement in 30% of the watershed, random placement in 30% hydrologic response units (HRUs) of the high priority hydrological unit code (HUCs), placement in the top 30% of the high priority HUCs, and top 30% of the HRUs in the HUCs near the outlet of the watershed. The model was calibrated for flow for the period 1987–2006 and validated for the period 2007–2012. Sediment and nutrients were validated from 2011 to 2012. Out of the BMPs evaluated, grassed waterways proved to be the most effective BMP in reducing sediment and nutrient loads from row crop (soy beans) and pasture fields. Reductions at the watershed outlet ranged 0–1% for flow, 0.28–14% for sediment, 0.3–10% for TP and 0.3–9% for TN. Relatively higher reductions were observed at the subwatershed level, flow reductions ranged 0–51%, sediment reductions -1 to 79%, TP -1 to 65% and TN -0.37 to 66% depending on BMP type, placement scenario, and watershed characteristics. The results from this study provide the data to help prioritize monitoring needs for collecting watershed response data in LCPR and BMP implementation evaluations, which could be used to inform decisions in similar studies.
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