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1 Awulachew, Seleshi Bekele; Lemperiere, Philippe; Tulu, T. 2009. Training manual on agricultural water management. Nairobi, Kenya: International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI). 227p.
Training materials ; Agricultural development ; Water management ; Smallholders ; Watershed management ; Rainwater ; Water harvesting ; Techniques ; Tanks ; Water storage ; Soil water ; Small scale systems ; Irrigation scheduling ; Irrigation methods ; Surface irrigation ; Drip irrigation ; Furrow irrigation ; Basin irrigation ; Pumps ; Rainfall-runoff relationships ; Catchment areas ; Crops ; Yields ; Planting ; Bunding ; Terrace cropping ; Reservoirs ; Capacity ; Soil management ; Energy sources ; Costs
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI Record No: H044898)
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https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H044898.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H044898.pdf
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The aim of the set of modules is to cover useful elements of AWM from estimating runoff at micro and small watershed level up to irrigated field water management. The modules thus aim at covering water availability estimnation, water control and management, soil-water-plant relationship, water lifting and conveyance and irrigation methods. Each module is divided into a number of chapters and illustrated with figures, tables charts and examples. The modules are also useful as a reference and teaching material at technical, vocational, educational, and training centres and as a field guide. The publication extensively use existing knowledge in the form of texts, figures, demonstration materials derived from various sources such as books, grey literature such as web material, reports, manuals etc. specifically they have immensely used materials from FAO, ICRISAT and IWMI documentations with or without citation to the specific references.
2 Sharma, P. N. (Ed.) 1997. Participatory processes for integrated watershed management. Kathmandu, Nepal: FAO. Participatory Watershed Management Training in Asia (PWMTA) Program. 96p. (FAO PWMTA-FARM Field Document 7)
Watershed management ; Participatory approaches ; Farmers ; Empowerment ; Gender ; Women's participation ; Income ; Land tenure ; Land use ; Legal aspects ; Legislation ; Soil conservation ; Watercourses ; Water conservation ; Sustainable development ; Natural resources Management ; Planting ; Non governmental organizations ; Decision making ; Institutions ; Administrative structures ; Case studies / Asia / Bangladesh / Bhutan / China / India / Myanmar / Nepal / Pakistan / Philippines / Sri Lanka / Thailand / Himalayan Watersheds
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 333.91 G000 SHA Record No: H046343)
3 Hoff, P. 2009. CO2: a gift from heaven: the blue CO2 booklet. Delft, Netherlands: Eburon Academic Publishers. 144p.
Carbon dioxide ; Emission ; Climate change ; Greenhouse gases ; Air pollution ; Energy generation ; Climate change ; Environmental effects ; Planting ; Treaties ; Population growth ; Investment
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 363.7392 G000 HOF Record No: H046474)
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4 International Union of Soil Sciences (IUSS); Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement (IRD); Thailand. Land Development Department (LDD); International Water Management Institute (IWMI); FAO. Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific (FAO RAP); Khon Kaen University. Faculty of Agriculture. 2005. Management of tropical sandy soils for sustainable agriculture: a holistic approach for sustainable development of problem soils in the tropics. Proceedings of the First Symposium on Management of Tropical Sandy Soils for Sustainable Ariculture, Khon Kaen, Thailand, 27 November – 2 December 2005. Bangkok, Thailand: FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific (FAO RAP). 524p.
Soil management ; Sandy soils ; Tropical soils ; Semiarid soils ; Sustainable agriculture ; Poverty ; Food production ; Soil chemicophysical properties ; Planting ; Eucalyptus ; Savannas ; Groundnuts ; Rain ; Farmers ; Farming systems ; Irrigation methods ; Livestock ; Socioeconomic environment ; Clay minerals ; Fertilizers ; Paddy fields ; Water erosion ; Wind erosion ; Case studies ; Hydraulics ; Soil organic matter ; Agroecosystems ; Farm ponds ; Watersheds ; Coastal area ; Infiltration water / Asia / Southern Africa / Eastern Africa / Latin America / Sahel / Northern Burkina Faso / South Africa / West Africa / Cambodia / Vietnam / China / Australia / Malawi / Niger / Guam / Northeast Thailand / Southern Brazil / Ecuador / Hainan / Bình Thuan / Thua Thien Hue / Zululand / Mangodara
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 630 G000 INT Record No: H046693)
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5 Vayda, A. P. 2009. Explaining human actions and environmental changes. Lanham, MD, USA: AltaMira Press. 303p.
Environmental effects ; Human behaviour ; Forest fire management ; Mangroves ; Planting ; Pest management ; Insect control ; Indigenous knowledge ; Deforestation ; Tropical forests ; Highlands ; Social sciences ; Anthropology ; Interdisciplinary research ; Ecological factors ; Models ; Land conflicts ; War ; Political aspects ; Case studies / Indonesia / Philippines / New Guinea / Maring
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 304.2 G000 VAY Record No: H047655)
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6 Assefa, S.; Biazin, B.; Muluneh, A.; Yimer, F.; Haileslassie, Amare. 2016. Rainwater harvesting for supplemental irrigation of onions in the southern dry lands of Ethiopia. Agricultural Water Management, 178:325-334. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agwat.2016.10.012]
Rainwater ; Water harvesting ; Irrigation systems ; Supplemental irrigation ; Vegetables ; Onions ; Arid zones ; Dry season ; Wet season ; Dry spells ; Water productivity ; Water supply ; Water requirements ; Irrigation water ; Soil properties ; Runoff ; Planting ; Rainfed farming / Africa South of Sahara / Ethiopia / Halaba District
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H047784)
7 Lan, L. N.; Wichelns, D.; Milan, Florence; Hoanh, Chu Thai; Phuong, N. D. 2016. Household opportunity costs of protecting and developing forest lands in Son La and Hoa Binh Provinces, Vietnam. International Journal of the Commons, 10(2):902-928. [doi: https://doi.org/10.18352/ijc.620]
Opportunity costs ; Household expenditure ; Forest land use ; Forest management ; Forest protection ; Bamboos ; Cassava ; Maize ; Payment agreements ; Environmental services ; Planting ; Farmers ; Smallholders ; Ecosystem services / Vietnam / Son La Province / Hoa Binh Province
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H047824)
https://www.thecommonsjournal.org/articles/10.18352/ijc.620/galley/581/download/
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H047824.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H047824.pdf
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Vietnam has pilot-tested a payment for forest environmental services (PFES) program in an effort to restore and protect forest areas, some of which have been severely degraded by the excessive cutting of trees by small-scale farmers planting annual crops on steep, sloping lands. The pilot program implemented in southern Vietnam seems to be successful, yet the program in northern Vietnam has not produced the desired rates of planting and maintaining forest areas. The reasons for these mixed results include differences in socio-economic characteristics and also the production and marketing opportunities available to rural households in the project areas. To gain insight regarding program participation, we examine the household-level opportunity costs of planting and maintaining small plots of forest trees in northern Vietnam. We find that small-scale farmers in Hoa Binh Province, with limited financial resources, prefer the annual revenue stream provided by crops such as maize and cassava, rather than waiting for 7 years to obtain revenue from a forest planting. Farmers in Son La Province, with limited access to markets, prefer annual crops because they are not able to sell bamboo shoots and other forest products harvested from their small plots. In both provinces, the payments offered for planting and maintaining forest trees are smaller than the opportunity costs of planting and harvesting annual crops. Thus, most households likely would choose not to participate in the PFES program, at current payment rates, if given the opportunity to decline.
8 Negussie, A.; Achten, W. M. J.; Norgrove, L.; Mekuria, Wolde; Hadgu, K. M.; De Both, G.; Leroy, B.; Hermy, M.; Muys, B. 2016. Initial effects of fertilization and canopy management on flowering and seed and oil yields of Jatropha curcas L. in Malawi. BioEnergy Research, 9:1231-1240. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12155-016-9767-6]
Fertilizer application ; Fertilization ; Nitrogen fertilizers ; Inorganic fertilizers ; Canopy ; Flowering ; Seed production ; Oilseeds ; Jatropha curcas ; Biofuels ; Bioenergy ; Agronomy ; Agronomic practices ; Pruning implements ; Planting ; Spacing ; Soil sampling / Malawi
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H047879)
Appropriate canopy management, including planting density and pruning, and application of fertilizer may increase flowering success and seed and oil yields of Jatropha curcasL.Twofieldexperimentswereperformedfrom2009to 2011 in Balaka, Malawi, to assess the effect of planting density and pruning regime and single fertilizer application (N, P, and K) on male and female flower number and seed and oil yields of J. curcas. Planting density influenced flower sex ratio and female flower number. Branch pruning treatments did not influence the flower sex ratio but reduced seed and final oil yield by 55 % in the following year. It is claimed that J.curcas can be grown on soils with low nutrient content, but this study revealed that yield was low for non-fertilized trees. WeobservedhigherseedandoilyieldsathigherNapplication rates(upto203±42%seedand204±45%oilyieldincrease) compared with the non-fertilized control. The study suggests thatcurrentlyusedheavypruningpracticeisnotrecommended for J.curcas cultivation, although it needs further longer term investigation. Applying nitrogen fertilizer is effective in increasing yield.
9 Rajurkar, G. B.; Patel, N.; Natarajan, Rajmohan; Rajput, T. B. S.; Prathapar, S. A.; Varghese, C. 2016. Irrigation application efficiency and uniformity of water distribution using multi-outlet pipe and resource conservation technologies. Journal of Applied and Natural Science, 8(4):1868-1877.
Irrigation efficiency ; Irrigation systems ; Irrigation water ; Water distribution ; Water storage ; Pipe drainage ; Resource conservation ; Technology ; Zero tillage ; Crop production ; Seasonal cropping ; Planting ; Cultivation ; Wheat ; Farmers ; Soil water / India / Haryana State / Karnal District / Karnal
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H048909)
https://journals.ansfoundation.org/index.php/jans/article/view/1055/1014
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H048909.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H048909.pdf
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Irrigation experiments were conducted during November to April under wheat crop in the winter season of 2012-13 and 2013-14 in the farmer’s field at Galibkhedi village located in Karnal District, Haryana State, India. In the study, collapsible multi-outlet pipe (MOP) along with single outlets pipe (SOP) was tested in farmer’s field under wheat cultivation. Irrigation was carried out in five treatments including tillage (T) with SOP and MOP; zero-tillage (ZT) with SOP and MOP, and furrow irrigation with raised bed (FIRB). Iso-time profile of waterfront spreading and advance indicated that irrigation water distribution was uniform under the plot irrigated using MOP as compared to plot irrigated using SOP. In addition, water distribution was uniform under zero tilled plots as compared to tilled plot. Results implied that MOP has several advantages over SOP in terms of application efficiency (AE) and uniformity of water distribution. Average application efficiency for the first study year was found to be in the order of ZT-MOP (82.41%) > FIRB (76.79%) > ZT-SOP (75.25%) > T-MOP (74.85%) > T-SOP (69.79%). Average application efficien-cy for the second study year was found to be in the same order as first year with some deviation in values. In the second year values of mean application efficiencies were ZT-MOP (82.58%) > FIRB (77.13%) > ZT-SOP (73.04%) > T-MOP (69.65%) > T-SOP (66.13%). Overall, this study concludes that irrigation under wheat crop using collapsible multi-outlet pipe (MOP) with zero tillage practices is a suitable option for surface irrigation that accomplishes uniform distribution of water with higher application efficiency.
10 Gomez-Zavaglia, A.; Mejuto, J. C.; Simal-Gandara, J. 2020. Mitigation of emerging implications of climate change on food production systems. Food Research International, 134:109256. (Online first) [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodres.2020.109256]
Food production ; Climate change mitigation ; Food security ; Risk assessment ; Strategies ; Crops ; Yields ; Planting ; Harvesting ; Irrigation ; Arable land ; Pests ; Livestock ; Aquaculture ; Fisheries ; Emission reduction ; Public health ; Models
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H049677)
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Crops, livestock and seafood are major contributors to global economy. Agriculture and fisheries are especially dependent on climate. Thus, elevated temperatures and carbon dioxide levels can have large impacts on appropriate nutrient levels, soil moisture, water availability and various other critical performance conditions. Changes in drought and flood frequency and severity can pose severe challenges to farmers and threaten food safety. In addition, increasingly warmer water temperatures are likely to shift the habitat ranges of many fish and shellfish species, ultimately disrupting ecosystems. In general, climate change will probably have negative implications for farming, animal husbandry and fishing. The effects of climate change must be taken into account as a key aspect along with other evolving factors with a potential impact on agricultural production, such as changes in agricultural practices and technology; all of them with a serious impact on food availability and price. This review is intended to provide critical and timely information on climate change and its implications in the food production/consumption system, paying special attention to the available mitigation strategies.
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