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Relatives, neighbors, or friends: Information exchanges among irrigators on new on-farm water management tools
CONTEXT: On-farm water application in Ethiopia, as in much of Sub-Saharan Africa, is dominated by furrow irrigation, which resulted in inefficient water uses and related economic and environmental problems.
Conservation agriculture improves adaptive capacity of cropping systems to climate stress in Malawi
Improving adaptive capacity of crop systems through minimum mechanical soil disturbance, permanent soil organic cover, and crop species diversification.
Sub-Saharan Africa has long been beset with food insecurity. Investment in small-scale irrigation may provide a solution to address the challenge by extending crop production into the dry season.
Spatial farm typology analysis found that specific contexts, including rates of mineral fertilizer application, livestock ownership, and rainfall, can factor in the suitability of CA.
Assessing the harvested area gap in China
Strategic approaches to targeting technology generation
Soil nutrient depletion in Uganda is one of the leading environmental degradation problems threatening the livelihoods of most farmers in the region.
Methods for studying collective action in rural development
Sustainable irrigation water management should simultaneously achieve two objectives: sustaining irrigated agriculture for food security and preserving the associated natural environment.