Hodson Makurira

Water Productivity in Rainfed Agriculture (eBook, PDF)

Redrawing the Rainbow of Water to Achieve Food Security in Rainfed Smallholder Systems

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Based on research conducted in the semi-arid Makanya catchment of northern Tanzania, where rainfall averaging less than 400 mm/season is insufficient to support common food crops, this book discusses the application of direct and indirect techniques to explore the soil and water dynamics at field scale. It demonstrates that there is indeed scope to increase crop water productivity provided the local farmers adopt more efficient cultivation techniques. The book also confirms that no single solution exists to solve the problem of low yields in rainfed farming systems.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Dezember 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780203093429
• Artikelnr.: 42045000

Autorenporträt

Hodson Makurira obtained his BSc in Civil Engineering from the University of Zimbabwe and his MSc from the International Institute for Infrastructural, Hydraulic and Environmental Engineering (now UNESCO-IHE) in Delft, The Netherlands. He worked as a water resources engineer for the Ministry of Water Resources and Development and for the Zimbabwe National Water Authority. He is currently a lecturer at the University of Zimbabwe and involved in several educational and research development programmes. His subjects of expertise are improving livelihoods for semi-arid rainfed environment communities, mitigation of dry spells on crop productivity and water partitioning processes at field scale and the linking to crop productivity.