"This paper investigates the effects of wheat genetic diversity and land degradation on risk and agricultural productivity in less favored production environments of a developing agricultural economy.
Extreme interannual variability of precipitation within Ethiopia is not uncommon, inducing droughts or floods and often creating serious repercussions on agricultural and non-agricultural commodities.
Changes in India’s seed regulations during the 1990s favored the growth of privately- as compared to publicly-funded sectors.
" Hungarian home gardens are small-scale farms managed by farm households using traditional management practices and family labor.
The paper discusses the application of the Water Poverty Index (WPI) as a monitoring tool for Benin’s water sector.
"Modern crop production is based on only a few plant species.
We examine access to, use of, and participation in decisions on improved water supply in the Volta basin of Ghana, one of the first countries to introduce a community-based approach to rural water supply on a large scale.
In the subsistence-oriented, semi-arid production systems of Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka, India, the environment is marginal for crop growth and often there is no substitute for millet crops.
"The purpose of the research paper is to characterize biological diversity related to millets in the semi-arid regions of India at various spatial scales of analysis (e.g., farm household versus community levels) and place that evidence in a broad
This study was conducted with the main objective of determining the linkages between poverty and land management practices in Uganda.
"Agricultural biodiversity is an environmental resource.
"Changing perceptions of resource ownership have altered international exchange of genetic resources.
Since 1996, a growing coalition of stakeholders from the private sector, government and donor communities has promoted a new package of agronomic practices for smallholders in Zambia.
This paper examines future prospects for rainfed cereal production, and its importance in the evolving global food system.
The worsening degradation of natural resources urgently requires the adoption of more sustainable management practices. This need has led to growing interest and investment in monitoring systems for tracking the condition of natural resources.
This paper examines the nature of community management of woodlots and investigates the determinants of collective action and its effectiveness in managing woodlots, based on a survey of 100 villages in Tigray, northern Ethiopia.
The competition for limited water resources between agriculture and more highly valued domestic and industrial water uses is rapidly increasing and will likely require the transfer of water out of agriculture.
The sustainability of natural resource management depends not only on appropriate technology and prices, but also upon the institutions involved in resource management at the local level.