This paper provides a quantitative impact assessment of the community-based integrated natural resources management project (CBINReMP) in the Lake Tana region in Ethiopia during 2011-2019.
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Low-cost and sustainable agricultural management practices are being promoted in many countries but continue to face low adoption among farmers.
Migration and gender dynamics of irrigation governance in Nepal
Nepal has a long history of irrigation, including government and farmer-managed irrigation systems that are labor- and skill-intensive. Widespread male migration has important effects on Nepalese society.
Women and small-scale irrigation: A review of the factors influencing gendered patterns of participation and benefits
Small-scale irrigation is expanding rapidly in parts of the world, especially sub-Saharan Africa, offering smallholder farmers an opportunity to improve their livelihoods, diets, and resilience to climate change among other benefits.
Assessing the economic cost of depleting groundwater in Balochistan: A Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) multiplier approach
Prolonged droughts and depleting groundwater resources have been a serious challenge to the economy of province of Balochistan, Pakistan.
Are smallholder farmers credit constrained? Evidence on demand and supply constraints of credit in Ethiopia and Tanzania
Credit constraint is considered by many as one of the key barriers to adoption of modern agricultural technologies, such as chemical fertilizer, improved seeds, and irrigation technologies, among smallholders.
Smallholder irrigation technology diffusion in Ghana: Insights from stakeholder mapping
Irrigated agriculture can support food and nutrition security, increase rural employment and incomes and can act as a buffer against growing climate variability and change.
Género y seguridad alimentaria en Honduras
El presente estudio, con el respaldo del Servicio Holandés de Cooperación al Desarrollo (SNV), obtuvo información sobre una serie de temas relativos a la seguridad alimentaria y la nutrición, el género y el acceso al agua en ciertos caseríos espec
The diffusion of small-scale irrigation technologies in Ethiopia: Stakeholder analysis using Net-Map
Small-scale irrigation (SSI) provides great benefits to farmers in terms of increased yields and profits, better food and nutrition security and greater resilience to climate shocks.
Gender and food security in Honduras
This study, supported by the Netherlands Development Organisation (SNV), obtained information on a range of topics associated with food security and nutrition, gender, and water access in selected villages of Honduras.
This report describes the baseline data collected from 1,835 men and women respondents in 998 households in two irrigation sites in the central dry zone in Myanmar to help diagnose, design, and test interventions to enhance the Myanmar Agricultura
Agriculture and youth in Nigeria: Aspirations, challenges, constraints, and resilience
Nigeria’s rural youth are facing various challenges in agriculture, with limited job opportunities outside the sector.
Drivers of adoption of small-scale irrigation in Mali and its impacts on nutrition across sex of irrigators
Irrigation is an important strategy to increase agricultural productivity, improve nutrition security and reduce climate-related risks in rural Africa, but adoption of this technology has been low.
What does empowerment mean to women in northern Ghana? Insights from research around a small-scale irrigation intervention
Women’s empowerment is important to improve the status of women and achieve greater gender equity. It is also an important vehicle for achieving other development goals related to food security, nutrition, health, and economic growth.
Irrigation-nutrition linkages: Evidence from northern Ghana
We analyze the linkages between irrigation and nutrition using data from irrigators and non-irrigators in Northern Ghana.
Irrigation and women’s diet in Ethiopia: A longitudinal study
Some agricultural practices, such as irrigation, have the potential to buffer seasonal dietary gaps and thus improve diets, particularly for subsistence farmers but also for rural and urban households that purchase irrigated produce from local mar
Indonesia has managed to combine high rates of growth, rapid reductions in rural poverty and a significant structural transformation of its economy all at the same time without a big increase in urban manufacturing.
Sustainable land management and its effects on water security and poverty: Evidence from a watershed intervention program in Ethiopia
This paper investigates the impacts of sustainable land management (SLM) on water security and poverty based on an evaluation of a watershed level SLM program promoted in Amhara regional state of Ethiopia.
Contract farming, productivity and fertilizer usage: Empirical evidence from specialty crop production
This study investigates the impact of contract farming (CF) in baby corn production on yield, irrigation costs, fertilizer costs and usage of chemical fertilizer.
‘Sticky Rice’: Variety inertia and groundwater crisis in a technologically progressive state of India
This paper studies the high adoption of Pusa 44, a long-duration and old rice variety cultivated in Punjab, despite the availability of new short-duration varieties and the overall technological advancement of agriculture.