Abstract Water scarcity poses one of the most prominent threats to well-being smallholder farmers around world. We studied association between rural livelihood capitals (natural, human, social, financial, and physical) resilience water scarcity. Resilience was denoted by farmers’ self-reported capacity have avoided, or adapted to, Proxies for were collected from two-hundred in South Sulawesi, I...

From 1884 onwards, Britain experienced a series of major droughts, which reached their peak in the 'Long Drought' (1890-1909). Despite being imagined as a wet part of the world, rural Wales was hard hit as many communities did not have access to reliable water supplies. As medical officers of health and newspapers talked about water famines, alarm focused on questions of purity and disease as d...

Abstract The global climate changes and their influence on agriculture in Uzbekistan were analyzed, including problems of irrigation water shortage irrigated lands the lower reaches Amu Darya with greatest due to repeated dry years. Additionally, recommendations for effective use resources conditions meadow alluvial soils salinization shallow salinized groundwater proposed subirrigation drip ir...