Reducing poverty in sub-Saharan Africa through investments in water and other priorities

MA Hanjra, T Ferede, DG Gutta - Agricultural Water Management, 2009 - Elsevier
Water resources are essential to human development processes and to achieve the
Millennium Development Goals that seek, inter alia, to eradicate extreme poverty and …

Improving irrigation access to combat food insecurity and undernutrition: A review

L Domènech - Global Food Security, 2015 - Elsevier
Interventions aimed at increasing water availability for livelihood and domestic activities
have great potential to improve various determinants of undernutrition, such as the quantity …

[图书][B] Water for food water for life: A comprehensive assessment of water management in agriculture

D Molden - 2013 - taylorfrancis.com
Managing water resources is one of the most pressing challenges of our times-fundamental
to how we feed 2 billion more people in coming decades, eliminate poverty, and reverse …

Agricultural water management and poverty linkages

RE Namara, MA Hanjra, GE Castillo… - Agricultural water …, 2010 - Elsevier
Water is critically important to the livelihoods of more than 1 billion people living on less than
$1 a day, particularly for the 850 million rural poor primarily engaged in agriculture. In many …

The social impacts of dams: A new framework for scholarly analysis

J Kirchherr, KJ Charles - Environmental Impact Assessment Review, 2016 - Elsevier
No commonly used framework exists in the scholarly study of the social impacts of dams.
This hinders comparisons of analyses and thus the accumulation of knowledge. The aim of …

[图书][B] Costs and performance of irrigation projects: A comparison of sub-Saharan Africa and other developing regions

AB Inocencio - 2007 - books.google.com
High irrigation investment costs together with declining world prices for food and the failures
of a number of high profile past irrigation projects are the main reasons for the reluctance of …

Effect of small-scale irrigation on the income of rural farm households: The case of Laelay Maichew District, Central Tigray, Ethiopia

K Aseyehegn, C Yirga, S Rajan - 2012 - repo.lib.sab.ac.lk
Agricultural intensification is presumed to be a necessary pre-condition for the development
of the agricultural sector in Ethiopia. To this end, various government and non-governmental …

[PDF][PDF] Forest cover impacts of Chinese development projects in ecologically sensitive areas

A BenYishay, B Parks, D Runfola… - Sais cari 2016 …, 2016 - docs.aiddata.org
Ariel BenYishay, Bradley Parks, Daniel Runfola and Rachel Trichler Abstract: What are the
conservation impacts of Chinese development activities in ecological hotspots? We …

Is small better? A comparison of the effect of large and small dams on cropland productivity in South Africa

E Blanc, E Strobl - The World Bank Economic Review, 2014 - academic.oup.com
We estimate and compare the effects of small and large irrigation dams on cropland
productivity in South Africa. To this end, we construct a panel data set of South African river …

Mapping the social impacts of small dams: The case of Thailand's Ing River basin

Z Fung, T Pomun, KJ Charles, J Kirchherr - Ambio, 2019 - Springer
The social impacts of large dams have been studied extensively. However, small dams'
social impacts have been largely neglected by the academic community. Our paper …