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

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

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Abstract

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...........................

Item Type:	Book Section
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CRP:	UNSPECIFIED
Series Name:	Balkema-proceedings and monographs in engineering, water, and earth sciences
Subjects:	Others > Food and Nutrition
Depositing User:	Mr Sanat Kumar Behera
Date Deposited:	02 Dec 2011 08:25
Last Modified:	02 Dec 2011 08:25
URI:	http://oar.icrisat.org/id/eprint/4671
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