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Zusammenfassung Bis vor kurzem führten touristische Reiserouten in der Regel vom globalen „Westen“ in den so genannten „Rest der Welt“. Doch was passiert, wenn Menschen aus dem globalen Osten und Süden plötzlich in der Rolle zu bedienst leistender Touristinnen vor den Türen...
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Many studies have demonstrated the sensitivities of crop yield to a changing climate, a major challenge for the agricultural research community is to relate these findings to the wider societal concern with food security. Apart from few exceptions, the likely impacts of climate change on...
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exceeded. Water pressure provides the kinematic energy used on irrigation systems to spray the water on the field. The amount … of water that the irrigation system can provide per hour should be carefully monitored to save water in dry areas. The …. Results show sensor nodes exhibit a 4% average error, and 9% packet loss maximum. Both values are adequate for crop irrigation …
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Discusses the importance of sharing existing knowledge and technologies, generating new knowledge and enhancing capacity for applying it to reduce the risks of climate change.
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Farmers may help solve the food, feed, and fuel crises, and prosper as a result, with the aid of political support and investments in agriculture.
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We use original water user group (WUG) data from a reservoir irrigation system in China to examine the effect of water … for private irrigation. This tendency is associated with an increased probability that the remaining members do not … difficulties among the remaining members whose fields are separated by former members who have now opted out for private irrigation …
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This article attempts to determine the long-term productivity and sustainability of irrigated agriculture in the Indian and Pakistan Punjabs by measuring trends in total factor productivity for production systems in both states since the advent of the Green Revolution. These measurements over...
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Asia, a region that accounts for nearly half of the global groundwater used for irrigation. Over the past three decades … explores South Asia's groundwater dilemma through the lens of welfare economics, drawing on evidence from India and Pakistan …
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policy agenda. In this context, a restrictive regulation of water withdrawals for irrigation has gained in importance. The … whole‐farm risk programming approach to a typical arable farm in northern Germany. By using irrigation field trials …, production activities with varying irrigation intensities and inherently incorporated crop yield uncertainty are defined …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate performance times from a quality engineering perspective for response and repair of pipes at a public utility. The objective is to scientifically determine the pipe that offers the most desirable downtime (DT) and time to repair (TTR)....
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