Resources Tagged: Water Management
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Agriculture holds the key to successfully achieving the objectives and aspirations articulated in the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Agreement on climate change. It is also crucial to the livelihoods of hundreds of millions of smallholder farmers and rural communities worldwide....
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2009-07-01 Throughout the world, and even in the United States, engineers are tackling the challenges of sustainable development and public health - challenges that engineers are uniquely qualified to address. Yet engineers working abroad on development projects often lack the knowledge and information to...
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Over the past 2-3 years CFGB staff and partners have been developing and field testing CA training materials designed to be used at the farmer level. We are pleased that the African Conservation Tillage network has agreed to host these materials on their website athttp://caguide.act-africa.org/so...
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1986-01-19 This book is an effort by FAO to compile an up-to-date, comprehensive text on rural structures and services in the tropics, focusing on structures for small- to medium-scale farms and, to some extent, village-scale agricultural infrastructure. The earlier edition, entitled Farm structures in...
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1990-01-01 This booklet aims to give insight into the subject matter so that you will be able to apply the methods described when carrying out small-scale measures. These measures include: staking out and digging a canal, staking out and construction a terrace, and levelling a field. Small-scale measures...
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1994-01-01 This book is directed at agricultural projects whose staff do not have the specialised skills of the hydrologist and at hydrologists whose experience in the agricultural field is limited. It is aimed especially at those working in developing countries, where resources will be limited and where it...
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1988-01-01 This manual includes five parts; the basic compacted earth microdam technology used by the MCC-Gaous program, variations on the given technology, recommendations forpost-construction activities for the village that has successfully constructed a micro-dam, a suggested process or methodology, and...
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1986-01-01 This publication contains research in the Sudan and a guide for new projects. 541 pages, illustrated, tables
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1982-01-06 This guide is intended for use by all who are concerned with the development of irrigated land for increasing food production in developing nations. 23 pages, photos
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2003-01-01 This report analyses the water productivity and water-saving initiatives in the Syr-Darya river basin of Central Asia. The report presents institutional and political aspects of water resources management in the basin-particularly a brief descript of pre- and post-soviet developments in water...