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New Paradigm to Unlock the Potential of Rainfed Agriculture in the Semiarid Tropics

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Title New Paradigm to Unlock the Potential of Rainfed Agriculture in the Semiarid Tropics
 
Creator Wani, S P
Rockstroma, J
Venkateswarlu, B
 
Subject Agriculture-Farming, Production, Technology, Economics
 
Description The twenty-first century has presented complex and multiple challenges for humankind
and the main challenge is to achieve food security for all with scarce water
resources and increasing land degradation. The world is facing a severe water scarcity
that is already complicating national and global efforts to achieve food security
in several parts of the world. Agriculture is the world's second largest consumer of
water after forestry. The second important factor controlling world food production
is soil health, which is severely affected due to land degradation. The growing
human population is reducing the per capita avaiiability of land as well as water differently
in different parts of the world. Growing............
 
Publisher CRC Press
 
Date 2012
 
Type Book Section
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/5510/2/New_Paradigm_to.pdf
Wani, S P and Rockstroma, J and Venkateswarlu, B (2012) New Paradigm to Unlock the Potential of Rainfed Agriculture in the Semiarid Tropics. In: World Soil Resources and Food Security. CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida, pp. 419-469. ISBN 978-1-4398-4451-9