Human impact on the environment in the Ethiopian and Eritrean highlands—a state of the art

J Nyssen, J Poesen, J Moeyersons, J Deckers… - Earth-science …, 2004 - Elsevier
This review analyses the environmental evolution of the Ethiopian highlands in the late
Quaternary. The late Pleistocene (20,000–12,000 14C years BP) was cold and dry, with (1) …

The use of the marasha ard plough for conservation agriculture in Northern Ethiopia

J Nyssen, B Govaerts, T Araya, WM Cornelis… - Agronomy for …, 2011 - Springer
Indigenous tillage systems are often undervalued in conservation agriculture (CA). In
Ethiopia, since the 1970s there have been several attempts to develop and implement often …

Conservation agriculture in irrigated intensive maize-based systems of north-western India: Effects on crop yields, water productivity and economic profitability

CM Parihar, SL Jat, AK Singh, B Kumar, S Pradhan… - Field Crops …, 2016 - Elsevier
In north-western India, maize-based systems are being advocated as an alternative to rice-
based systems to address the issues of resource degradation, particularly declining water …

Conservation agriculture in an irrigated cotton–wheat system of the western Indo-Gangetic Plains: Crop and water productivity and economic profitability

TK Das, R Bhattacharyya, S Sudhishri, AR Sharma… - Field Crops …, 2014 - Elsevier
Cotton–wheat cropping system is the second most important wheat based system in the
South Asia (4.5 M ha) and India (2.6 M ha) and contributes significantly to the food security …

The impact of rainfall variability and crop production on vertisols in the central highlands of Ethiopia

HR Bedane, KT Beketie, EE Fantahun… - Environmental Systems …, 2022 - Springer
Background Understanding the yearly, seasonal, monthly, and weekly rainfall variability is
crucial for improved agricultural practice in Ethiopia, where agriculture depends on rainfall …

Bio-energy, water-use efficiency and economics of maize-wheat-mungbean system under precision-conservation agriculture in semi-arid agro-ecosystem

CM Parihar, SL Jat, AK Singh, K Majumdar, ML Jat… - Energy, 2017 - Elsevier
The maize-wheat-mungbean (MWMb) cropping system is being advocated as an alternative
to the traditional rice-based cropping systems of north-western Indo-Gangetic Plains (IGP) to …

Effects of precision conservation agriculture in a maize-wheat-mungbean rotation on crop yield, water-use and radiation conversion under a semiarid agro-ecosystem

CM Parihar, SL Jat, AK Singh, A Ghosh… - Agricultural Water …, 2017 - Elsevier
In recent years, water resources have decreased and water saving has become an
important issue in the Indo-Gangetic Plains (IGP) of South Asia. Maize-wheat-mungbean …

Resource conserving mechanization technologies for dryland agriculture

N Kumar, G Upadhyay, S Choudhary, B Patel… - Enhancing resilience of …, 2023 - Springer
The continuous deterioration in natural resources and climate change has put enormous
challenges before researchers to further improve the crop productivity to meet the food …

Hydrological modeling and scenario analysis for water supply and water demand assessment of Addis Ababa city, Ethiopia

GW Tefera, YT Dile, R Srinivasan, T Baker… - Journal of Hydrology …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Study region Addis Ababa, capital city of Ethiopia. Addis Ababa's surface water
reservoirs and groundwater infrastructures are in the Akaki watershed of the Awash Basin …

Effects of conservation agriculture on crop productivity and water-use efficiency under an irrigated pigeonpea–wheat cropping system in the western Indo-Gangetic …

TK Das, KK Bandyopadhyay… - The Journal of …, 2016 - cambridge.org
In search of a suitable resource conservation technology under pigeonpea (Cajanus cajan
L.)–wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) system in the Indo-Gangetic Plains, the effects of …