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Sensitivity and uncertainty propagation in coupled models for assessing smallholder farmer food security in the Olifants River Basins, South Africa

Journal Articles & Books
July, 2014

Using family balance (i.e., combined net farm and non-farm incomes less family expenses), an output from an integrated model, which couples water resource, agronomic and socio-economic models, its sensitivity and uncertainty are evaluated for five smallholder farming groups (AeE) in the Olifants Basin. The crop management practiced included conventional rainfed, untied ridges, planting basins and supplemental irrigation.

Resumen de los datos del sondeo de sistemas y prácticas de manejo de los recursos agrícolas : Comunidades con sistemas de producción con un porcentaje alto en áreas con cultivos anuales, agricultura de secano, sin tracción mecánica y animal, Honduras: ...

Resumen de los datos del sondeo de sistemas y prácticas de manejo de los recursos agrícolas : Comunidades con sistemas de producción de cultivos anuales con uso de riego, tracción animal y mecánica, alta, Honduras: Reporte interno

Sequential cropping of Vertisols in the Ethiopian highlands using a broadbed-and-furrow system

Journal Articles & Books
December, 1989
Ethiopia
Africa
Eastern Africa

Investigates the effects of improved surface drainage on the productivity of Vertisols in a wheat-and-chickpea cropping trial conducted in 1987 at ILCA;s Debre Zeit research site in the Ethiopian highlands. Chickpea plots were subjected to four irrigation treatments, viz, no irrigation, irrigation at planting, 35 days and 70 days after planting. The trial showed that with a starter irrigation to aid the germination of a second crop, sequential cropping of two crops in the same growing season is feasible in the Debre Zeit.

RETA 5866: fourth agriculture and natural resources research at CGIAR centers: developing sustainable forage technologies for resource-poor upland farmers in Asia: Forages for Smallholders Project phase-II, six-monthly report, 1 January-31 June 2001

RETA 5866: fourth agriculture and natural resources research at CGIAR centers: developing sustainable forage technologies for resource-poor upland farmers in Asia: Forages for Smallholders Project: Six-monthly report, 1 January-30 June 2002

Review of the CPWF small grants initiative

Reports & Research
December, 2011
Burkina Faso
Cambodia
Ghana
India
Kenya
Laos
South Africa
Thailand
Vietnam
Africa
Asia
South-Eastern Asia

This working paper reviews the experiences of the Challenge Program on Water and Food (CPWF) with 14 “small

grants for impact” that were contracted in early 2006 and operated for periods of 12 to 18 months. For a total

investment of under US$1 million – less than the equivalent of a typical 3-5 year CPWF research for development

project in Phase 1, the small grant projects made significant contributions to identifying water and food technology

for specific end users (thus showing the potential of CPWF research in general); to better understanding of

Rice landscape management for raising water productivity, conserving resources, and improving livelihoods, in upper catchments of the Mekong and Red River basins

Reports & Research
July, 2010
Laos
Vietnam
South-Eastern Asia

The project validated and disseminated a large number of improved rice-based cropping systems technologies suited to upland agro-ecologies. These improved technologies have good potentials to raise the productivity of water, land, and labor. The innovative strategies employed by the project including the paradigm of landscape management, multi-institutional partnership, multidisciplinary teamwork, farmer participatory approach to technology validation, and community-based seed production led to successful generation and dissemination of technologies.