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Water Use and Management
The growing demands for water from the Basin's rivers ... of irrigation production. Environmental benefits will also arise where water moves from degraded areas to areas more suited to irrigation. Given that irrigation is the major user of ...
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"Strategies for an alternative global nation" which involves alternative ...
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Drylands
Many of these dryland areas face severe land degradation, in which marginal areas are turned into wastelands and natural ecosystems are altered through destruction ... , and global climate change. UNU-INWEH’s programme on drylands assists developing countries in dryland areas to better manage their land resources and to achieve sustainable use of their water ...
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Sanctuary Asia - Interviews
Haroti region of the Chambal river catchment. I was given charge of more ... exotics. Water hyacinth is choking the water bodies. Prosopis juliflora and lantana are invading the dryland areas. Uprooting the weeds is an uphill task. We need a whole programme with botanists, zoologists ...
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Desertification
Desertification ... dryland areas face increasingly low and erratic rainfalls, coupled with soil erosion by wind and the drying up of water resources through increased regional temperatures. Deforestation can also reduce rainfall in certain areas ...
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FAO/AGL - TERRASTAT
This land is therefore in most cases not available ... Land degradation severity and population distribution Deserts and dryland areas Actual and potential available arable land Population distribution in deserts and dryland areas Country Ranking Region(s) of interest ...
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Directory of arid lands research institutions 1995
Status Ongoing Findings Hydrologic index of forests in dryland areas of China (Loess Plateau); methods of afforestation in drylands through water harvesting; methods ... (series, vol. 18), Dryland Farming Science Publications list Available History Preparatory work for the Research and Technical Training Center for the Arid and Semiarid areas approved by Ministry ...
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Urban Areas
Areas Urban Areas The image of dryland regions as rural and agrarian is incomplete. Many of the world's largest cities are located in drylands. These urban areas are centers of commerce, ... Beijing's urban core (gray) and surrounding cultivation and land cover (dark red). Other major dryland cities include Mexico City, Los Angeles, Santiago, Madrid, and Teheran. image credit: copyright CNES, ...
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Dryland Degradation
Dryland Degradation Dryland Degradation The Earth's drylands are found in more than 110 nations, and moderate to severe land degradation has reduced the productivity of more than 70% of these areas.
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New Rice for Africa
Asian species has largely replaced its African cousin. But, West African farmers in rainfed (dryland) areas can’t grow the semi-dwarf rice varieties from Asia, because they don’t compete ...
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