Rainwater-Smart Agriculture in Arid and Semi-Arid Areas

Rainwater-Smart Agriculture in Arid and Semi-Arid Areas

Fostering the Use of Rainwater for Food Security, Poverty Alleviation, Landscape Restoration and Climate Resilience

Leal Filho, Walter; de Trincheria Gomez, Josep

Springer International Publishing AG

06/2019

392

Mole

Inglês

9783319882031

15 a 20 dias

611

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Preface: Rainwater-smart concept, goals and objectives, structure.- Using rainwater for off-season small-scale irrigation in arid and semi-arid areas of sub-Saharan Africa: Key working principles and best practices.- Fostering food security and climate resilience through integrated landscape restoration practices and rainwater harvesting management in arid and semi-arid areas of Ethiopia.- Towards Optimizing the Performance and Cost-effectiveness of Farm Pond Technology for Small-scale Irrigation in Semi-arid Farming Systems of Kenya.- The promise of developing flood based farming systems in arid and semi-arid areas.- Adaptations in water harvesting technologies for enhancing food security and livelihood: A multi-country study in Sub-Saharan Africa.- Roads: instruments for water harvesting and resilience.- Fostering the use of rainwater for off-season small-scale irrigation in arid and semi-arid areas of Ethiopia.- Fostering the adoption of in

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Rainwater harvesting;Arid lands water management;Rainwater for supplementary irrigation;use of rainwater during dry seaons;Dryland agriculture;Food Security in drylands;Dryland Landscape Restoration;Dryland Climate Resilience;Poverty Alleviation in Drylands;climate change;water policy;landscape/regional and urban planning