Agricultural biodiversity
- Environmental payments: bane or boon?
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This paper develops a conceptual framework for analysing the conditions under which Payments for Ecogical Services (PES) programmes can help reduce poverty. It considers the impact of two types of PES programmes: programmes where lands are diverted from agricultural production to other land uses; and those where lands remain in agriculture but production activities are modified to achieve environmental objectives. The analysis concludes that there is a wide array of circumstances where PES can both promote environmental quality and reduce poverty.
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- Better integrated management of water resources and regulation is needed to manage chronic water scarcity in this region
- ( K. Frenken (ed) / Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations , 2009)
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This FAO report aims to provide an accurate status of rural water resources management, with a special focus on irrigation, highlighting the major changes that have occurred in the last d...
- A training manual on water management in agriculture in Ethiopia
- ( S.B. Awulachew;P. Lemperiere;T. Tulu / International Livestock Research Institute , 2009)
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This training manual on agricultural water management has been prepared with the aim of providing reference and guidance materials on smallholders' agricultural management, primarily for Ethio...
- Towards better agricultural production through an accounting framework for green and blue water
- ( T. Sulser;C. Ringler;T. Zhu / International Food Policy Research Institute , 2009)
- Water scarcity is a critical issue for food production in the poor developing countries because agriculture is the primary consumer of the dwindling freshwater around the globe. This paper calls for s...
- Can user associations improve water management?
- ( N. McCarthy;T. Essam / International Food Policy Research Institute , 2009)
- In rural areas of Chile, where water is mostly used as an essential farm input via irrigation canals, Comunidades de Agua (CdA), or water communities, have gained recognition as an alternative to nati...
- Is it feasible to model water quality and quantity management?
- ( M., G. Alcoforado de Moraes;X. Cai;C. Ringler / International Food Policy Research Institute , 2009)
- Water management in the Pirapama River Basin in northeastern Brazil is affected by both water quantity and water quality constraints. The region is known for significant sugarcane-based ethanol produc...
- Improving the well being of sub-Saharan Africa: focus on agriculture
- ( A. Calzadilla;T. Zhu;K. Rehdanz / International Food Policy Research Institute , 2009)
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This report takes cognizance of the fact that agriculture is very important to sub-Saharan Africa and there is potential to increase agricultural productivity through irrigation. It employs two pos...
- Is large-scale private land acquisition beneficial to Africa?
- ( L. Cotula;S. Vermeulan;R. Leonard / Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations , 2009)
- Over 2008 large-scale acquisitions of farmland in Africa, Latin America, Central Asia and Southeast Asia have increased. This report discusses key trends and drivers in land acquisitions, the contract...
- Land acquisition: is there a code of conduct?
- ( J. von Braun (ed);R. Meinzen-Dick (ed) / International Food Policy Research Institute , 2009)
- One of the effects of the food price crisis on the world food system is the increasing acquisition of farmland in developing countries by other countries seeking to ensure their food supplies....
- Interplay and linkages in the relevance of Malaysia’s strategic approach to food security
- ( L.C.Y. Wong / Institute of Strategic and International Studies, Malaysia , 2009)
- High food prices from 2007 through mid-2008 spawned serious implications for food security, macroeconomic stability and even political stability in many countries, especially developing ones. Subseque...
- Does climate change pose a big threat to maize yield?
- ( W. Akpalu;R. Hassan;C. Ringler / International Food Policy Research Institute , 2009)
- This paper investigates the impact of climate variability on maize yield in the Limpopo Basin of South Africa using the Generalized Maximum Entropy (GME) estimator and Maximum Entropy Leuven Estimator...
