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  1. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    July, 2013
    Brazil, Canada, China, Denmark, India, Niger, Tanzania, Vietnam, Central America, South America, Northern America, Southern Asia, South-Eastern Asia, Western Africa, Africa, Asia, Eastern Asia, Eastern Africa

    This paper identifies sixteen cases of large-scale actions in the agriculture and forestry sectors that have adaptation and/or mitigation outcomes, and distils lessons from the cases. The cases cover policy and strategy development (including where climate-smart objectives were not the initial aim), climate risk management through insurance, weather information services and social protection, and agricultural initiatives that have a strong link to climate change adaptation and mitigation.

    Key lessons learned include:

  2. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 1997
    Burkina Faso, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, India, Sudan, Egypt, United States of America, Niger, Philippines, China, Indonesia, Nepal, Bangladesh, Colombia, Western Africa, Asia, Africa

    This volume reviews the findings and results of research of the International Irrigation Management Institute during its first decade. The book also reviews several of the institute?s major institutional strengthening activities.

  3. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2001
    China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Philippines, Portugal, United States of America, Eastern Africa

    More irrigated land is devoted to rice than to any other crop. A method to save water in irrigated rice cultivation is the intermittent drying of the rice fields, known as alternate wet/dry irrigation (AWDI). This report reviews previous studies in AWDI, with a focus on mosquito vector control, water saving, and rice yields. Examples are provided from a number of countries.

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    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2012
    India, China, Mexico, Spain, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Asia, Eastern Asia, Southern Asia, Northern America

    Besides India, there are a few other countries like Mexico, Spain, Pakistan, Bangladesh and China which also make intensive use of groundwater. This highlight reviews groundwater institutions and policies in these countries, with a special focus on the interlinkages between energy and groundwater. It finds that while there are useful lessons from international experience, none of the other countries offer unmetered electricity to farmers as India does. It is this lack of energy accounting and resistance to metering that is at the heart of the invidious energy-irrigation nexus in India.

  5. Library Resource
    Conference Papers & Reports
    December, 2011
    United States of America, Vietnam, Peru, Belarus, Australia, Kazakhstan, India, Russia, Republic of Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand

    This paper discusses the economic implications of the preferential trade agreements that New Zealand is currently negotiating, using a computable general equilibrium modelling framework. The New Zealand dairy industry is a particular focus in the results, which come from the GTAP model produced by Purdue University.

  6. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2015
    Australia, Brazil, Canada, United States of America, India, Russia, China

    Groundwater vulnerability assessment is an important task in water resources and land management. The most sophisticated among the vulnerability assessment techniques is the GIS-based DRASTIC model. However, despite its popularity, it is marred with excessive subjectivity glitches; little research has been conducted to address the shortcomings associated with this method. This study investigates various issues regarding the application of the GIS-based DRASTIC model through a critical review of relevant literatures.

  7. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2013
    India, Brazil, China, United States of America, Europe

    Remote sensing images obtained by remote sensing are a key source of data for studying large-scale geographic areas. From 2013 onwards, a new generation of land remote sensing satellites from USA, China, Brazil, India and Europe will produce in 1year as much data as 5 years of the Landsat-7 satellite. Thus, the research community needs new ways to analyze large data sets of remote sensing imagery. To address this need, this paper describes a toolbox for combing land remote sensing image analysis with data mining techniques.

  8. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    October, 2009
    Indonesia, United States of America, India, Malaysia, China, Asia

    The production of biofuels has been supported by many conservationists and environmentalists on the grounds that it reduces greenhouse gas emissions and is a renewable energy substitute for non-renewable fossil fuels, mainly oil. More recently the domestic production of biofuels (and the domestic supply of other forms of alternative energy) have been welcomed by several nations as ways to reduce their oil imports and increase their energy self-sufficiency, as for example, has happened in the United States.

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