More Crop Per Drop

Author : Meredith Giordano,Frank R. Rijsberman,R. Maria Saleth
Publisher : IWA Publishing
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781843391128

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More Crop Per Drop by Meredith Giordano,Frank R. Rijsberman,R. Maria Saleth Pdf

This volume is an analytical summary and a critical synthesis of research at the International Water Management Institute over the past decade under its evolving research paradigm known popularly as 'more crop per drop'. The research synthesized here covers the full range of issues falling in the larger canvas of water-food-health-environment interface. Besides its immediate role in sharing knowledge with the research, donor, and policy communities, this volume also has a larger purpose of promoting a new way of looking at the water issues within the broader development context of food, livelihood, health and environmental challenges. More crop per drop: Revisiting a research paradigm contrasts the acquired wisdom and fresh thinking on some of the most challenging water issues of our times. It describes new tools, approaches, and methodologies and also illustrates them with practical application both from a global perspective and within the local and regional contexts of Asia and Africa. Since this volume brings together all major research works of IWMI, including an almost exhaustive list of citations, in one single set of pages, it is very valuable not only as a reference material for researchers and students but also as a policy tool for decision-makers and development agencies.

Author : Giordano, Meredith,Turral, H.,Scheierling, S. M.,Treguer, D. O.,McCornick, Peter G.
Publisher : Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI) Washington, DC, USA: The World Bank
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789290908487

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9789290908487 by Giordano, Meredith,Turral, H.,Scheierling, S. M.,Treguer, D. O.,McCornick, Peter G. Pdf

Author : Worldwatch Institute
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136529979

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State of the World 2011 by Worldwatch Institute Pdf

Over the last two years, Worldwatch's Nourishing the Planet team has travelled to 25 sub-Saharan African nations - the places where hunger is greatest - and uncovered a treasure trove of innovations from farmers groups, private voluntary organizations, universities, and even agribusiness companies. These innovations offer global benefits - from the continent's role in preventing disastrous climate change to the way urban farmers are feeding people in cities and why even determined locavores are sustained by the crop diversity preserved by farmers thousands of miles away. This book assesses the state of agricultural innovations from cropping methods to irrigation technology to agricultural policy with an emphasis on sustainability, diversity, and ecosystem health in the hope of guiding governments, foundations, and concerned citizens in their efforts to eradicate hunger and poverty. Published annually in 28 languages, State of the World is long established as the most authoritative and accessible annual guide to our progress towards a sustainable future. It is relied upon by national governments, UN agencies, development workers and law-makers for its up-to-the-minute analysis and information.

Author : Andy Clark
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2008-07
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781437903799

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Managing Cover Crops Profitably (3rd Ed. ) by Andy Clark Pdf

Cover crops slow erosion, improve soil, smother weeds, enhance nutrient and moisture availability, help control many pests and bring a host of other benefits to your farm. At the same time, they can reduce costs, increase profits and even create new sources of income. You¿ll reap dividends on your cover crop investments for years, since their benefits accumulate over the long term. This book will help you find which ones are right for you. Captures farmer and other research results from the past ten years. The authors verified the info. from the 2nd ed., added new results and updated farmer profiles and research data, and added 2 chap. Includes maps and charts, detailed narratives about individual cover crop species, and chap. about aspects of cover cropping.

Author : Jeff L. Bennetzen,Sarah C. Hake
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 593 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2008-12-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780387794181

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Handbook of Maize: Its Biology by Jeff L. Bennetzen,Sarah C. Hake Pdf

Handbook of Maize: Its Biology centers on the past, present and future of maize as a model for plant science research and crop improvement. The book includes brief, focused chapters from the foremost maize experts and features a succinct collection of informative images representing the maize germplasm collection.

Author : David William Seckler
Publisher : IWMI
Page : 23 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Integrated water development
ISBN : 9789290903253

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The New Era of Water Resources Management by David William Seckler Pdf

The problem of water management; Increasing the productivity of water.

Author : Asian Development Bank
Publisher : Asian Development Bank
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789292575441

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Asian Water Development Outlook 2016 by Asian Development Bank Pdf

The Asian Water Development Outlook charts progress in water security in Asia and the Pacific over the past 5 years. This 2016 edition of the report uses the latest available data to assess water security in five key dimensions: household access to piped potable water and improved sanitation, economic water security, providing better urban water services to build more livable cities, restoring healthy rivers and ecosystems, and resilience to water disasters. The region shows a positive trend in strengthening water security since the 2013 edition of the report, when 38 out of 49 countries were assessed as water-insecure. In 2016, that number dropped to 29 out of 48 countries. This study was supported by ADB’s Water Financing Partnership Facility.

Author : Laura Reynolds,Danielle Nierenberg
Publisher : Worldwatch Inst
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0916468585

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Innovations in Sustainable Agriculture by Laura Reynolds,Danielle Nierenberg Pdf

Publisher description: Agriculture, when done sustainably, holds an important key to mitigating climate change. The United Nations estimates that the global agricultural sector could potentially reduce and remove 80 to 88 percent of the carbon dioxide that it currently produces. By tapping into the multitude of climate-friendly farming practices that already exist, agriculture can continue to supply food for the human population, as well as income for the world's 1.3 billion farmers. Climate-friendly agriculture also can play a critical role in the global reduction of greenhouse gas emissions of climate change --cSource other than Library of Congress.

Author : David Groenfeldt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02-21
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781351200172

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Water Ethics by David Groenfeldt Pdf

Fully revised and updated, this second edition of Water Ethics continues to consolidate water ethics as a key dimension of water-related decisions. The book introduces the idea that ethics are an intrinsic dimension of any water policy, program, or practice, and that understanding what ethics are being acted out in water policies is fundamental to an understanding of water resource management. Alongside updated references and the introduction of discussion questions and recommended further reading, this new edition discusses in depth three significant developments since the publication of the first edition in 2013. The first is the growing awareness of the climate crisis as an existential threat, and associated concern about adaptive strategies for sustainable water management and ways of using water management for climate mitigation (e.g., practically through agricultural soil management and conceptually through ethics awareness). Second, there has been increased clarity among the religious community, Indigenous leaders, and progressive academics that ethics needs to become an arena for application and action (e.g., the Vatican encyclical Laudato Si, protests at Standing Rock and Flint, Michigan, in the US, and climate demonstrations worldwide). Thirdly, there have been new normative water standards ranging from "water stewardship" (industry initiative), water charters (Berlin) and the on-going initiative to develop a global water ethics charter. Drawing on case studies from countries including Australia, India, the Philippines, South Africa, and the United States, this textbook is essential reading for students of environmental ethics and water governance and management.

Author : Publications Division
Publisher : Publications Division Ministry of Information & Broadcasting
Page : 53 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Kurukshetra June 2023 (English) by Publications Division Pdf

A monthly published in Hindi and English. The journal is devoted to all aspects of rural reconstruction and village democracy. The journal carries educative and informative articles on rural development and is useful for scholars, academicians and students preparing for civil services and other competitive examinations.

Author : Thomas Sinclair,Thomas W. Rufty
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 69 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2023-01-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783031144141

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Bringing Skepticism to Crop Science by Thomas Sinclair,Thomas W. Rufty Pdf

Global food production and climate change among other concerns are societal issues that require major research input from crop science. While suggestions are abundant on how crop science can help to resolve these issues, many of the suggestions come from people who are not actually familiar with the challenges and requirements to modify crop plants grown under field conditions to achieve the necessary improvements. Efforts to alter a gene or even several genes have very rarely proven successful in having impact on crop production under realistic field conditions. This lack of success has not been addressed head on. This book serves as a reminder to crop scientists and others that open, clear-minded assessments of the entirety of evidence concerning a hypothesis is required before making claims of possible increases in crop performance. This attitude of skepticism is not a negative attitude but rather an employment of the cornerstone of scientific investigation based on formation and evaluation of hypotheses. Skeptical analyses are to be presented in the book on some of the common suggestions for improving crop plants. The six specific topics to be addressed are photosynthesis, seed number, nitrogen use efficiency, water use efficiency, crop water loss, and unconfirmed field observations. Each of the topics in this book, will first be reviewed to present the origins of the popular assumptions about how specific plant modification will result in improved crop performance. The review of the background information will be followed by an examination of the evidence, logic, and predicted outcomes for the assumed benefits of the modifications. Finally, each chapter will offer novel, alternate approaches to plant modification that have documented support for positively impacting crop performance. The book will not be written in specialized, detail language but offer access for those with a wide range of interests in options for increasing crop production in the future. The goal of the book is to provide information that is useful to those with interests ranging from climatologist to food-oriented sociologists. Of course, the topics covered will be of direct interest to those studying plant sciences, particularly crop scientists. The hope is to challenge a reader to re-examine some of her/his assumptions about crop improvement and approach the topic with a renewed practice of skepticism in formulating and evaluating hypotheses.

Author : J. C. Rodda,Lucio Ubertini
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1901502570

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The Basis of Civilization--water Science? by J. C. Rodda,Lucio Ubertini Pdf

Author : Megh R. Goyal
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781771883412

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Emerging Technologies in Agricultural Engineering by Megh R. Goyal Pdf

This book covers an array of issues on emerging agricultural engineering and technology, featuring new research and studies. The volume is broken into three parts: emerging technologies, energy management in agriculture, and management of natural resources, in which particular attention is paid to water management, a necessary consideration for successful crop production, especially in water-scarce regions. Topics include: alleviating drainage congestion solar energy for agriculture anaerobic digestion by inoculation with compost self-propelled inter-cultivators agrobiodiversity watershed development and management This volume offers academia, engineers, technologists, students, and others from different disciplines information to gain knowledge on the breadth and depth of this multifaceted field of agricultural engineering. There is an urgent need to explore and investigate the current shortcomings and challenges of the current innovations and challenges.

Author : Masayoshi Satoh,Samir Aboulroos
Publisher : Springer
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-07
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783319302164

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Irrigated Agriculture in Egypt by Masayoshi Satoh,Samir Aboulroos Pdf

This book targets the issue of water scarcity in Egypt as a typical example of the world water crisis. Today, the available water resource is facing its limit because of rapid increase in water demand as a result of population growth and changes in peoples’ life-style. The basic idea to solve the problem of water scarcity is that the irrigation sector, the biggest user of water, should increase water use efficiency. However, the real problem is how this can be achieved in view of the crucial need for water in this sector. This book addresses this challenge through case studies from the Nile delta in Egypt. The water problem in the Nile delta, the major source for water in Egypt, is discussed in this book from all its various aspects. This book covers the situation before and after the advent of the Aswan High Dam, so that the reader understands the entire development. Another special feature are the extensive and scientific descriptions of contemporary topics in water and agriculture, especially from the viewpoint of water saving and sustainability. These descriptions are based on field experiments and surveys in a six-year international research project. Topics of this book are local, but their implications are global.

Author : Ashok Dalwai,Arvind Mehta,Alok Shrivastava,Ajay Tyagi,Rina Ray,Rajesh Singh,Sutradhar Shailendra Joshi,Shreemat Pandey,Satish Tewary,Tarun Shridhar
Publisher : Blue Rose Publishers
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2023-05-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Reflections on India's Public Policies: by India's Experienced Policy makers by Ashok Dalwai,Arvind Mehta,Alok Shrivastava,Ajay Tyagi,Rina Ray,Rajesh Singh,Sutradhar Shailendra Joshi,Shreemat Pandey,Satish Tewary,Tarun Shridhar Pdf

Packing order in civil services is determined by the year of entry. Older the number of entry, senior an officer becomes. Each individual officer from the entry into service onwards gains diverse experiences at various levels till his/ her exit from the service. Most of the civil servants share their experiences at the personal level in the form of their memoirs. There are very few and far references in the public policy domain of sharing practical experiences in an objective manner. In the annals of the Indian civil services, it is for the first time that Ten officers of a batch had come together to share their experiences with constructive suggestions on a number of important issues. This kind of canvas covering wide-ranging subjects will be helpful to present and future policymakers and implementers. The topics covered and the authors involved make the book a shear magic.