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Integrated Farm Management Practices and Upscaling the Impact for Increased Productivity of Rainfed Systems

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Title Integrated Farm Management Practices and Upscaling the Impact for Increased Productivity of Rainfed Systems
 
Creator Sreedevi, T K
Wani, S P
 
Subject Watershed management
 
Description Most countries in the world depend primarily on
rainfed agriculture for their food grains. Despite
large strides made in improving productivity and
environmental conditions in many developing
countries, more than 850 million poor people in
Africa and Asia still face poverty, hunger, food
insecurity and malnutrition, where rainfed agriculture
is the main agricultural activity. Although
the importance of rainfed agriculture varies
regionally, it produces most food for poor
communities in developing countries (Rockström
et al., 2007; also see Chapter 1, this volume).
These problems are exacerbated by adverse
biophysical growing conditions and the poor
socio-economic infrastructure in many areas in
the semi-arid tropics (SAT). The SAT is home to
38% of the developing countries’ poor, 75% of
whom live in rural areas. Over 45% of the world’s
hungry and more than 70% of its malnourished
children live in the SAT.
 
Publisher CAB Inernational
 
Contributor Wani, S P
Rockstrom, J
Oweis, T
 
Date 2009
 
Type Book Section
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/3619/1/Rainfed_Agriculture222-257.pdf
Sreedevi, T K and Wani, S P (2009) Integrated Farm Management Practices and Upscaling the Impact for Increased Productivity of Rainfed Systems. In: Rainfed agriculture: unlocking the potential. Comprehensive Assessment of Water Management in Agriculture Series (7). CAB Inernational, Wallingford, Oxon, UK, pp. 222-257. ISBN 978-1-84593-389-0