Water resources are essential to human development processes and to achieve the
Millennium Development Goals that seek, inter alia, to eradicate extreme poverty and …

Managing water resources is one of the most pressing challenges of our times-fundamental
to how we feed 2 billion more people in coming decades, eliminate poverty, and reverse …

This article provides evidence for a particular channel through which sustained terrorism in
rural areas may affect growth in developing countries. Using micro-level data from …

This book discusses the fundamentals of land-use and land-cover characterization,
mapping, and monitoring using remote sensing technology. After covering the basic …

This paper empirically examines India's economic growth experience during 1960-2004,
focusing on the post 1973 acceleration. Careful attention is paid to data quality. The analysis …

Understanding the complex relationship between water, agriculture and poverty (WAP) is
essential for informed policy-making in light of increasing demand for scarce water …

Investments in agricultural water management should complement or strengthen the
livelihood and coping systems of the rural poor, and should thus be instrumental for …

The conditions that led to large public investment in irrigation in the second half of the 20th
century have changed radically, and today's circumstances demand substantial shifts in …

Agriculture in Africa south of the Sahara (SSA) is still largely rainfed. SSA also exhibits the
lowest crop yields for major staples in the world, largely due to low use of irrigation and …

Investment in agricultural water management has been one key poverty reduction strategy in
developing countries. In Ghana, irrigation development for livelihood support, which dates …