drought, specially in reproductive stage is one of the major constraints, limiting the productivity of crops, including chickpea (cicer arietinum l.). to study the effects of drought during pod set and seed filling stages (terminal drought) on phenology, growth and seed yield of 5 kabuli chickpea genotypes of: arman, jam, hasham, flip93-93 (azad) and ilc482, an experiment was conducted during t...

Maize plays a leading role in the food security of millions in southern Africa, yet it is highly vulnerable to the moisture stress brought about by the erratic rainfall patterns that characterize weather systems in the area. Developing and making drought-tolerant maize varieties available to farmers in the region has thus long been a key goal on the regional development agenda. Farm-level adopt...

Given worldwide experience with drought during the past several decades and the magnitude of associated impacts, it is apparent that vulnerability to extended periods of water shortage is escalating. Developing a national or provincial drought policy and preparedness plan is a complicated but essential first step toward reducing societal vulnerability. Until recently, nations had devoted little...

INTRODUCTION In Zambia, agriculture continues to be an important source of livelihood, supporting about 70% of the population. The country’s agriculture sector is dominated by small scale rural farmers, who largely depend on rain for crop production, mainly due to the absence of irrigation equipment in most rural communities. Thus any change in climate, mostly manifested as an increase in frequ...

A study was conducted to determine the magnitude of area shifting to different crops over the years, assess the profitability of maize cultivation and to evaluate the factors determining area devotion to maize cultivation in Bangladesh. Sample survey was done in five districts capturing both favourable and drought prone production environment. Two villages under each district were chosen in con...

water crisis is one of the basic problems in the arid and drought prone areas like iran. this condition in the recent years has aggravated due to drought phenomenon. thus, using poor water quality has increased in areas where good quality is not available. in this study, in order to investigate clogging, 5 types of emitters including micro flapper, netafim, corona, axios and iran drip were test...

the extent of utilization of drought management practices by the farmers of tafresh county was studied in a descriptive-correlational research. statistical population consisted of all farmers in tafresh county which summed up to around 9061 people out of which 300 farmers were taken as the sample in accordance with cochran’s formula. the main tool of the study was a questionnaire. the validity ...

Identification and analysis of farmers’ vulnerability associated with their risk aversion degree is one of the necessary requirements for planning and reducing impacts of drought in Iran. So, this study was investigated three risk vulnerability parameters (economic, social and technical) among wheat farmers categorized in accordance with their risk aversion degree in the Mashhad County (Iran) b...

[1] Freshwater scarcity has been cited as the major crisis of the 21st century, but it is surprisingly hard to describe the nature of the global water crisis. We conducted a metaanalysis of 22 coupled human–water system case studies, using qualitative comparison analysis (QCA) to identify water resource system outcomes and the factors that drive them. The cases exhibited different outcomes for ...

this study on farmers’ perception and management of natural hazards in production and security of farm investment was carried out in isuikwuato local government area of abia state, nigeria. the study was sought to identify farmers’ perceived natural hazards in food production; identify adopted measures used in mitigating impacts of the hazards and determined factors that influenced farmers from...