Add to ORKGThree thousand years ago, precursors of the Aztecs of Mexico built large-scale water management systems. The canal network in southern Mexico’s Tehuacan Valley is the largest known prehistoric water management system in the New World. But that was at a time when water and food scarcity were relatively unknown. However, the 600 million poor inhabiting the semi-arid tropics today have to grapple with poverty and parched lands; degraded natural resources and burgeoning populations; besides a single rainy-season crop grown on degraded lands, and not forgetting the abysmal state of infrastructure and the moneylender giving chase
Limiting natural resources, erratic rainfall, land degradation, soil erosion, poverty, and burgeonin...
Faczng the food and poverty crzses zn developzng countnes wzll requzre a new emphaszs on smallscale ...
At the Rio Conchos basin, located in the arid northern Mexico, the 1994-2006 drought associated with...
Improved water management offers a range of benefits to people living in the dryland tropics, where ...
Green” to “blue”, another way of saying from rainfed to full irrigation. Who are the principal playe...
Facing the food and poverty crises in developing countries will require a new emphasis on small-scal...
A number of complex sustainable development challenges beset the 21st century. Central among them ar...
Limiting natural resources, erratic rainfall, land degradation, soil erosion, poverty, and burgeonin...
Water and watersheds are difficult to separate for management purposes. Providing irrigation as a su...
Over 70% of Mexican farms produce only for self subsistence and lack the necessary economies of scal...
Water and watersheds are difficult to separate for management purposes. Providing irrigation as a su...
In the Vilcanota valley in Peru, where Practical Action's food production programme works with small...
Rainfed agriculture (1.25 billion hectares out of 1.55 billion hectares arable area) plays an import...
Asian Paints Umited and International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) c...
In a country like India, where 69% of arable land is rainfed, drought is a constant threat in one o...
Limiting natural resources, erratic rainfall, land degradation, soil erosion, poverty, and burgeonin...
Faczng the food and poverty crzses zn developzng countnes wzll requzre a new emphaszs on smallscale ...
At the Rio Conchos basin, located in the arid northern Mexico, the 1994-2006 drought associated with...
Improved water management offers a range of benefits to people living in the dryland tropics, where ...
Green” to “blue”, another way of saying from rainfed to full irrigation. Who are the principal playe...
Facing the food and poverty crises in developing countries will require a new emphasis on small-scal...
A number of complex sustainable development challenges beset the 21st century. Central among them ar...
Limiting natural resources, erratic rainfall, land degradation, soil erosion, poverty, and burgeonin...
Water and watersheds are difficult to separate for management purposes. Providing irrigation as a su...
Over 70% of Mexican farms produce only for self subsistence and lack the necessary economies of scal...
Water and watersheds are difficult to separate for management purposes. Providing irrigation as a su...
In the Vilcanota valley in Peru, where Practical Action's food production programme works with small...
Rainfed agriculture (1.25 billion hectares out of 1.55 billion hectares arable area) plays an import...
Asian Paints Umited and International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) c...
In a country like India, where 69% of arable land is rainfed, drought is a constant threat in one o...
Limiting natural resources, erratic rainfall, land degradation, soil erosion, poverty, and burgeonin...
Faczng the food and poverty crzses zn developzng countnes wzll requzre a new emphaszs on smallscale ...
At the Rio Conchos basin, located in the arid northern Mexico, the 1994-2006 drought associated with...