providing livelihoods, and building resilience to climate shocks (Grey and Sadoff2007; Cook and Bakker2012; Dalin et al.2017; Matthews et al.2022; FAO2023; Ringler et al.2023; UN2023,2024). Water for agriculture can come directly from rainfall or can be secured through irrigation technologies...
Crop landraces have unique local agroecological and societal functions and offer important genetic resources for plant breeding. Recognition of the value of landrace diversity and concern about its erosion on farms have led to sustained efforts to establ
Water is certainly used for human consumption, but also to wash clothes and sometimes also to water livestock. To the home gardener, water is so much more than a technical message defined in usage by quantity (cubic litres) and where to use it. Although limited in scale, ‘irrigation by ...
The authors would like to acknowledge the staff and management of the Department of Civil Engineering, A.T.B.U. Bauchi, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Bandar Seri Iskandar, Perak Darul Ridzuan Malaysia on their technical and financial advice, supervisio...
The Kenya Youth Development Fund is a State corporation that supplements entrepreneurship by facilitating access to affordable credit for young people. daccess-ods.un.org 肯尼亚青年发 展基金是一个国营公司,它通过为青年人提供负担得 起的贷款,帮助创业。 daccess-ods.un.org [...] Sinohydro, Chi...
I oversaw the desert region facing the Red Sea, investigating the presence of underground water from the mountains through geological and electrical surveys, collecting data, and drilling deep wells for irrigation. Meanwhile, the Italian volun- teer was in charge of the mountainous areas. The ...
China assisted construction projects such as the Emalus Campus of the University of the South Pacific in Vanuatu, the Malawi University of Science and Technology, the teaching building of the Chinese Department at Kabul University in Afghanistan, the library at the University of Dar es Salaam in ...
For each Agricultural Zone, Government will partner with the private sector to provide the necessary irrigation infrastructure, develop access roads, extend power (solar/hydro) and provide mechanization services. Various locations across the country with potential to be food baskets have been identified ...
(Farah et al.2002). These rivers are also notable for its function as an alternative water sources for consumption purposes such as drinking, domestic, and irrigation purposes (Iwegbue,2012; Daso- Osibanjo2018). However, developing countries such as Uganda, Kenya, Cameroon and developed ...
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