Name: Water Resources Strategies to Increase Food Production in the Semi-Arid Tropics: Unesco-Ihe PhD Thesis (en Inglés)
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Author: Love, David
ISBN: 9781138001428

portada Water Resources Strategies to Increase Food Production in the Semi-Arid Tropics: Unesco-Ihe PhD Thesis (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

David Love

Editorial

CRC Press

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

262

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

23.6 x 16.8 x 1.8 cm

Peso

0.44 kg.

ISBN13

9781138001428

N° edición

Categorías

Ingeniería hidráulica
Suministro y tratamiento de aguas
Agricultura y explotaciones agropecuarias

Water Resources Strategies to Increase Food Production in the Semi-Arid Tropics: Unesco-Ihe PhD Thesis (en Inglés)

David Love (Autor) · CRC Press · Tapa Blanda

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Reseña del libro "Water Resources Strategies to Increase Food Production in the Semi-Arid Tropics: Unesco-Ihe PhD Thesis (en Inglés)"

Water demand in southern Africa continues to rise, as urban areas expand and as agricultural water demand rises to meet the millennium development food security goals. Water resource availability in the northern Limpopo Basin has declined over the last 30 years, and will decline further under climate change. In this study, water resources modelling is used to quantify the effect of water resources strategies and climatic conditions on water resources availability. This is coupled with water balance modelling to evaluate the potential of alluvial aquifers, which form the beds of sand rivers.The greatest benefit for the least impact comes from strategies providing for better land and soil/water management, such as changing from maize to small grains, production of livestock fodder and conservation agriculture. Small dams are a key resource to rural communities, and change to Multiple Use Systems through abstraction of water for irrigation has clear benefits locally. There is also great potential for the exploitation of alluvial aquifers for water supply. Better management of existing large dams, together with conjunctive use of alluvial groundwater and several reservoirs could increase productive use of water and significantly improve livelihoods without the construction of new reservoirs.