Sustainable Usage of Water- 水的可持续利用
60% of the world food production relies on dryland agriculture. Livelihood of small-scale farmers becomes fragile due to climate change. What shall we do to minimize the impact to farmers?
Small-scale water resource facility may improve the buffering capacity of the land, however, observation shows the consequence of soil salinization. Are there any solution to water scarcity?
Farmers engaged in organic farming have confirmed that water capacity in their soil has increased annually so that they may still yield in dry years.
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3 - 3written by Edith van WalsumThree hundred bright minds from business and industry, science, governments, NGOs and farmers’ organisations, recently met in Brussels at an international conference called “The Art of Farming”. They explored the potential of sustainable business models that include small-scale farmers. Is this too good to be true?
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4 - 6WWF started pilot projects for water resource protection in Yuantian village of Bi County in Sichuan province. These projects include recovering the function of natural purification mechanisms in Yutze river, promotion of rural biogas digesters, application of community-supported ecological agriculture, the construction of wetlands, etc. It represents an innovative strategy of multiple-protection for water resources in a rural area. The practices demonstrate that the strategy helps to solve problems of degradation of the natural function of the river, pollution by chemical fertilzer and pesticide, feces pollution, and household waste water, etc.
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7 - 8written by Dipendra PokharelNepal has abundant water resource in the world after Brazil. However, insufficient water supply brings adverse effects to people's life. Agriculture founds the economy of Nepal so that to increase agricultursl production must increase water supply. Otherwiese, to think alternatively, select crops with better water use efficiency by crop breeding.
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9 - 11written by Kees StigterAfter years of survey in agricultural climate service around the world and China, two main recommendations are: firstly, agricultural department must establish climate database under the collaboration with climate department; secondly, information provided to farmers should be practical and the way/method it is distributed.
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12 - 19Yunnan province is a typical mountainous province located in the south west of China. It is 94% mountainous and has an area of 380,000 square kilometer. In several state-level poor counties 66% of the poverty is in population of ethnic minorties living in mountainous rural area. This article provides recommendations for poverty alleviation in Yunnan villages by applying comparative analysis of the status of their livelyhoods and their causes in two Yunnan mountainous villages.
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20 - 20written by Rachel ZedeckMany countries are targets for expanding intensive agriculture. International agribusinesses, banking institutions, sovereign governments and wealthy individuals are being attracted to buy up or lease cheap land, where the use-rights are poorly defined.
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21 - 21written by Anil GuptaTwenty years of Earth Summits and numerous dialogues of the Convention on Biological Diversity have done little to improve the situation of local communities that depend upon natural resources, or of the disadvantaged people living in abject poverty in biodiversity-rich regions.
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22 - 23written by Jaime ter LindenNew risk-profiling approaches offer the promise of helping the “missing middle”: farmers who are too small to attract loans or be of interest to commercial banks, and too large to benefit from microfinance institutes.
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24 - 25written by Peter LabanWe all use water: we drink it, use it to grow, process and cook food, to make other products and cool things down. Water also plays a key role in conserving nature: ecosystems depend on flows of water. The availability (and quality) of water is of concern to everybody. But different uses and different interests and priorities have led to many tensions, conflicts and scarcities all over the world. Water is a resource we need to care for, nurture, manage and govern. Doing so involves getting everybody around the water table.
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26 - 28Due to climate change, the drought occurs more frequently. How can the drought impact be reduced for mountainous people? This article introduces the experience of application of Musella lasiocarpa, Pool and Water Cellar in Yunli village, Luquan county of Yunnan province.
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29 - 30written by Frank van SchoubroeckHolland is famous for its polders, or reclaimed land below sea level. The shaping of the Dutch landscape goes back to the 12th century, when rising water levels threatened agricultural land.
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31 - 32written by Idzenga AukeWater always flows downstream so that mountainous villagers often confronts water shortage. In the Philippines, piston pump helps to solve the problem. This case demonstrates that one simple technology may benifit people a lot if stakeholders will co-work on the issue.
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