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Improved livelihoods and food security through unlocking the potential of rainfed agriculture

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Title Improved livelihoods and food security through unlocking the potential of rainfed agriculture
 
Creator Wani, S P
Sreedevi, T K
Rockstroma, J
Wangkahart, T
Ramakrishna, Y S
Dixin, Y
Rao, A V R K
Li, Z
 
Subject Food and Nutrition
 
Description Eighty per cent of the world's agricultural land area is rainfed and generates 58% of
the world's staple foods (SIWI, 2001). The importance of rainfed agriculture varies
regionally, but produces most food for poor communities in developing countries. In
sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) more than 95% of the farmed land is rainfed, while the corresponding
fIgure for Latin America is almost 90%, for South Asia about 60%, for East
Asia 65% and for Near East and North Africa 75%. Farming systems in sub-Saharan...........................
 
Publisher Taylor & Francis
 
Date 2007
 
Type Book Section
PeerReviewed
 
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Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/4671/1/Improved_livelihoods_and_food_security.pdf
Wani, S P and Sreedevi, T K and Rockstroma, J and Wangkahart, T and Ramakrishna, Y S and Dixin, Y and Rao, A V R K and Li, Z (2007) Improved livelihoods and food security through unlocking the potential of rainfed agriculture. In: Food and water security. Balkema-proceedings and monographs in engineering, water, and earth sciences . Taylor & Francis, Abingdon, Oxford, UK, pp. 89-105. ISBN 9780415440189