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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2017Ethiopia
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2014Ethiopia
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksNovember, 2018Burkina Faso, Ghana, Western Africa
This Atlas summarizes recent advances in interdisciplinary approaches and research to address the different components of West African urban food systems, including urban and peri-urban agriculture. It thereby draws on the results of several major collaborative research projects and stakeholder consultations conducted in West Africa over the past two decades, and in particular on the UrbanFoodPlus project in Ghana and Burkina Faso (www.urbanfoodplus.org). The publication targets with its innovative design a broad range of stakeholders.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2017Malawi, Uzbekistan
This paper provides a brief synthesis of research conducted on gender in irrigation, and the tools and frameworks used in the past to promote improvement for women in on-farm agricultural water management. It then presents results from the pilot of the Gender in Irrigation Learning and Improvement Tool (GILIT) in locations in Malawi and Uzbekistan in 2015.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2018Ethiopia, Sub-Saharan Africa
As solar panels become more a ordable, solar photovoltaic (PV) pumps have been identi ed as a high potential water lifting technology to meet the growing irrigation demand in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). However, little is known aboutthegeo-spatial potentialofsolarbasedPVpumpingforirrigationtakinginto accountnotonlysolar radiation but also the availability of water resources and linkage to markets. This study developed a suitability framework using multi-criteria analysis in an open source GIS environment and tested it in the case of Ethiopia.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2016India, Sri Lanka, Central Asia, Eastern Africa, Northern Africa, South-Eastern Asia, Southern Africa, Western Africa
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2014Nigeria, Zambia, Brazil, Cambodia, India, Niger, Africa, Asia, Central America, South America
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2004Sri Lanka, South-Eastern Asia
The "Ruhuna Basins" defined for this case study encompass three of the main rivers that flow through ancient Ruhuna, including the longest and most important river in the region, Walawe. The Ruhuna basins are important in the broader Sri Lankan context, the basin being the location of a major hydropower plant, irrigation schemes that make a significant contribution to national food production, and important nature reserves.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2009India, Asia, Southern Asia
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2003India, Pakistan, Thailand, Syrian Arab Republic, China, United States of America
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