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Poverty reduction through improved agricultural water management; Proceedings of the Workshop on Pro-poor Intervention Strategies in Irrigated Agriculture in Asia Islamabad, Pakist...

Hussain, Intizar - International Water Management Institute (IWMI) - 2004

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"No-Till" Farming Is a Growing Practice

Horowitz, John K.; Ebel, Robert M.; Ueda, Kohei - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 2010

Most U.S. farmers prepare their soil for seeding and weed and pest control through tillage—plowing operations that … disturb the soil. Tillage practices affect soil carbon, water pollution, and farmers’ energy and pesticide use, and therefore … data on tillage can be valuable for understanding the practice’s role in reaching climate and other environmental goals. In …

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Ecological Goods and Services Survey Summary Prepared for: Lower Souris Watershed Committee

Entem, Alicia; Unterschultz, James R.; Jeffrey, Scott R. - Department of Resource Economics and Environmental … - 2009

An interview based survey of farm landowners in the south east corner of Saskatchewan was undertaken to evaluate the provision of wildlife habitat by agriculture. Producers were asked to provide management information regarding a piece of their land that was managed as a unit. Within the past...

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Water-resource and land-use issues

Calder, Ian R. - International Water Management Institute (IWMI)

This paper reviews perceived notions of the relationships between catchment land use and hydrology and explores whether much of the widely disseminated folklore, so often inextricably linked with issues of land use, is based on myth or reality. Gaps in our knowledge of the underlying processes...

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Best Management Practices to Enhance Water Quality: Who is Adopting Them?

Ghazalian, Pascal L.; Larue, Bruno; West, Gale E. - In: Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics 41 (2009) 03

This study investigates the determinants affecting producersâ€™ adoption of some Best Management Practices (BMPs). Priors about the signs of certain variables are explicitly accounted for by testing for inequality restrictions through importance sampling. Education, gender, age, and on-farm...

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