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1 Brabeck-Letmathe, P. 2009. Water and the food industry. In Chartres, Colin (Ed.). Words into action: delegate publication for the 5th World Water Forum, Istanbul, Turkey, 16-22 March 2009. London, UK: Faircount Media Group. pp.118-124.
Water use ; Governance ; Best practices ; Water security ; Water scarcity ; Food production ; Grain crops ; Cereals ; Biofuels ; Wastewater treatment ; Rivers ; Aquifers ; Water distribution ; Milk production
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI 333.9162 G635 SAL Record No: H042195)
2 Varghese, S. 2011. Women at the center of climate-friendly approaches to agriculture and water use. Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) 20p.
Climate change ; Gender ; Community organizations ; Women farmers ; Empowerment ; Agricultural practices ; Food security ; Millets ; Rice ; Grain crops ; Farming systems ; Agricultural practices ; Water use ; Arid zones ; Rural areas ; Villages ; Case studies / India / Tamil Nadu
Call no: P 8052 Record No: H044188)
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This paper examines proven agricultural practices that reduce greenhouse gas emissions and strengthen resilience to climate change through a case study of the Tamilnadu Women’s Collective in India. The collective, a federation of village-level women’s groups with over 150,000 members—the majority of which belong to the lowest caste—follow three principles for food security: 1.) empowerment of women; 2.) democratic local governance; and 3.) multifunctional agriculture.
3 Kogan, F.; Powell, A. M. Jr.; Fedorov, O. (Eds.) 2009. Use of satellite and In-Situ data to improve sustainability: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Using Satellite Data and In-Situ Data to Improve Sustainability, Kiev, Ukraine, 9-12 June 2009. 313p. (NATO Science for Peace and Security Series - C: Environmental Security)
Meteorological satellites ; Satellite surveys ; Data collection ; Sustainability ; Agrometeorology ; Monitoring ; Environmental effects ; Climate change ; Natural disasters ; Drought ; Flooding ; Rain ; Temperature ; Glaciers ; Snow cover ; Earthquakes ; Ecosystems ; Magnetic field ; Land cover ; Pastures ; Crop production ; Grain crops ; Food security ; Health ; Vegetation ; Remote sensing ; GIS ; Models ; Energy balance ; Biomass ; Precipitation ; Evapotranspiration ; Coastal area ; Air pollution ; Nitrogen oxides ; Emission / Ukraine / Russia / Mongolia / Africa South of Sahara
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 384.51 G000 KOG Record No: H046311)
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4 Bai, Y.-I.; Fu, C.; Thapa, B.; Rana, R. B.; Zhang, L.-X. 2022. Effects of conservation measures on crop diversity and their implications for climate-resilient livelihoods: the case of Rupa Lake Watershed in Nepal. Journal of Mountain Science, 19(4):945-957. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11629-020-6426-3]
Agrobiodiversity ; Diversification ; Climate change ; Resilience ; Livelihoods ; Watersheds ; Cash crops ; Grain crops ; Vegetables ; Households ; Farmland / Nepal / Gandaki / Kaski / Rupa Lake Watershed
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H051119)
https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s11629-020-6426-3.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H051119.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H051119.pdf
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Agrobiodiversity conservation is vital for achieving sustainability, but empirical studies on the effects of different practices or measures on crop diversity are rare. This study aims to estimate the effects of raising conservation awareness (RCA), building diversity blocks (BDB), and their combination on crop diversity among 240 randomly selected households surrounding the Rupa Lake Watershed in Nepal. Based on descriptive analysis and multiple regression models, the results indicate that the two single measures had no significant effect on the numbers of crop species and varieties grown by households in 2018. However, the combination of RCA and BDB had a significantly positive effect on the number of crop varieties, especially for grain and vegetable crops. Considering that these crops are essential in the daily lives of local people, the results indicate that a strategy that combines both awareness raising and on-farm conservation measures can generate higher crop diversity and better serve the climate-resilient livelihoods of people in mountainous areas.
5 Xu, H.; Yang, R.; Song, J. 2023. Water rights reform and water-saving irrigation: evidence from China. Water Science and Technology, 88(11):2779–2792. [doi: https://doi.org/10.2166/wst.2023.385]
Water rights ; Reforms ; Water conservation ; Drip irrigation ; Trickle irrigation ; Agricultural production ; Agricultural water use ; Water productivity ; Water extraction ; Grain crops ; Cash crops ; Water scarcity ; Water resources ; Land area ; Cultivated land ; Precipitation / China
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H052441)
https://iwaponline.com/wst/article-pdf/88/11/2779/1340235/wst088112779.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H052441.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H052441.pdf
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As a market-based water resource management, the water rights reform (WRR) will allocate water rights to water users and allow water users to trade water rights, which can realize the reallocation across water users. In this context, the adoption of water-saving irrigation (WSI) is an important technical form to adapt to the reform. Based on this, this paper studies the impacts of the WRR on WSI using the difference-in-differences (DID) strategy. The results show that the WRR could increase the land area for WSI by an average of 13.63%. The WRR could promote the expansion of high-efficiency irrigation mainly because the WRR could promote the expansion of spray and drip irrigation areas, and micro-irrigation land areas, which are high-efficiency water-saving irrigation technologies. In addition, the WRR also could improve agricultural production by increasing agricultural water productivity and planting area (including the sown area of grain crops and cash crops), but the WRR does not reduce agricultural water extraction. Therefore, the WRR could increase agricultural production without increasing agricultural water extraction.
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