Agriculture in semi-arid environments
LOSS OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY AND BIODIVERSITY IN THE SEMI ARID ENVIRONMENTS 0F NORTH EASTERN NIGERIA
... work agriculture itself is one of the major cause of deforestation in the dry lands by implication, the outright clearance of woodlands to provide extra cropland and rangeland is an important cause of ...
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Adaptation to drought in arid and semi-arid environments: Case of the Zambezi Valley, Zimbabwe
... The qualitative data were grouped and analysed thematically (Enfors & Gordon 2008). When the data were structured into themes, this yielded practical analytical categories that simplified the exploration of common ...
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Groundwater recharge rates and surface runoff response to land use and land cover changes in semi-arid environments
... The neo-Malthusian theory suggests that land use change is triggered by overuse of resources mainly attributed by an increase of human population. The over- use of resources includes activities such as overgrazing, ...
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Where does blue water go in the semi-arid area of northern China under changing environments?
... the semi-arid region of northern China show a decreasing trend in terms of ...for agriculture, water withdrawal from streams, and abstraction from aquifers for irrigation are the direct and main ...
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Irony In The Teaching Of Agriculture In Kenya’s Arid And Semi Arid Secondary Schools: The Students’ And Teachers’ Perspective
... by agriculture teachers influence agriculture curriculum implementation in ASAL ...of agriculture depends partly on choice and use of appropriate teaching ...senses. Agriculture subject in ...
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AMINO ACID AND PROTEIN PROFILES OF VICIA FABA SALT-STRESSED SEEDLINGS GROWN FROM THERMALLY-STRESSED SEEDS
... Seeds of Vicia faba L. cv. Giza 843 (broad beans) were supplied by the Ministry of Agriculture (Cairo, Egypt). The seeds were exposed to three temperature treatments for 48 h before sowing: 4 °C, 25 °C, and 40 °C. ...
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Viability of indigenous knowledge based strategies in mitigation of drought in Gachoka Division, Embu County-Kenya
... According to Mohammad (1992), indigenous knowledge is the term often used for vernacular ‘’local knowledge of the physical environment’’ and to this end, some have used the terms ‘’people’s science’’, ‘’folk science’’, ...
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Assessing Sprinkler Irrigation Performance Using Field Evaluations at the Medjerda Lower Valley of Tunisia
... Irrigation uniformity and wind drift and evaporation losses (WDEL) are major concerns for the design and management of sprinkler irrigation systems under arid or semi-arid conditions. Field trials ...
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Effects of antecedent soil moisture on runoff modeling in small semiarid watersheds of southeastern Arizona
... Abstract. This study presents unique data on the effects of antecedent soil moisture on runoff generation in a semi-arid environment, with implications for process-based modeling of runoff. The data were ...
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Green Grab by Bricolage - The Institutional Workings of Community Conservancies in Kenya
... of community conservancies, it is instructive to relect on the exercise of agency by groups of women. Whilst women can apparently form associations and beneit from bead-making enterprises through NRT-T, it is probable ...
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The impact of adoption of conservation agriculture on smallholder farmers’ food security in semi-arid zones of southern Africa
... of agriculture, the southern African countries seem to have been bypassed by the Green Revolution because deepening hunger and abject poverty continue to impede the development prospects in much of sub-Saharan ...
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Socio-economic effect on socially-deprived communities of developing drinking water quality problems in arid and semi- arid area of central Rajasthan
... Groundwater occurs almost everywhere beneath the Earth surface. It is not in a single widespread aquifer, but in thousands of local aquifer systems and compartments that have similar characters. Knowledge of the ...
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PRELIMINARY ASSESSESMENT ON THE EPIDEMIOLOGY AND PUBLIC HEALTH IMPLICATION OF CAMEL TUBERCULOSIS IN PASTORAL AREA OF ETHIOPIA
... According to Kleebebrg (1984), tubercle bacilli has been found in milk product such as yogurt and cheese made from non-pasteurized milk 14 days after processing and in butter as long as 100 days after processing. ...
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VARIETAL RESISTANCE TO SALINITY IN MAIZE M. RAl*
... Maize is a crop of the arid and semi-arid tracks of India. Keeping ever increasing salinity problem in view, it is worthwhile to assess the impact of saline water irri[r] ...
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Statistical model of daily flow in arid and semi arid regions
... Although intermittent streams play an important role in providing the scarce water resources in arid regions, however they have attracted limited scientists. Intermittent river in which surface water ceases to ...
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The Effect of Shelterbelts on Ecosystem Stabilization and Improvement of Local Communities Livelihood
... in arid, semi-arid and sub humid dry areas resulting from various factors, including climatic variation and human activities, (UNCED, ...and semi-desert are the most vulnerable ...
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Indigenous Knowledge and Techniques of Runoff Harvesting (Bandsar and Khooshab) in Arid and Semi Arid Regions of Iran
... With acceptance of average area of 5 ha and wheat cultivation, the total income of Khooshabs is equal to US $4,850,000. The results of other research conducted by Tavasoli to evaluate Khooshab, reveal that in excellent ...
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Large reservoirs: are they the last Oasis for the survival of cities in India?
... over agriculture and industrial water demands, and since then a large part of the total water harnessed by reservoirs is kept reserved for supplying to urban and rural ...
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Natural Regeneration of Tree in Arid and Semi-Arid Zones in West Africa
... The comparison of aerial photographs from 1975 with satellite images of high resolution of 2005 for the same areas in Niger shows a sharp increase in tree densities in fields (15 to 20 times more trees in 2005 than ...
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Assessment of spatial distributions of some climate indices in Iraq
... hyper- arid, arid, semi-arid, sub-humid and humid zones (Mohamed and Mohamed, ...with arid class at about (75 to 85%) of the region which is located at the south, while the humid class ...
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