Conserving land, protecting water /

• Corporate Authors: International Water Management Institute., Challenge Program on Water and Food.
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, in association with CGIAR Challenge Program on Water & Food, International Water Management Institute, 2008.
• Series: Comprehensive assessment of water management in agriculture series ; 6.
• Subjects: Land degradation.; Water-supply, Agricultural.; Water conservation.; Water Resources.; Land Resources.; Pollution and Degradation.; Social Psychology and Social Anthropology, (New March 2000); Environmental degradation.; Environmental management.; Land management.; Land resources.; Land use.; Socioeconomics.; Water management.; Water resources.; Electronic books.
• Online Access: View fulltext via EzAccess

This volume follows from a project of the Comprehensive Assessment of Water Management in Agriculture that brought together experts in fields ranging across the social sciences, ecology, agricultural sciences, soil and water science, political science and development studies to examine examples of s...

Table of Contents:

• Learning from bright spots to enhance food security and to combat degradation of water and land resources / Frits Penning de Vries, Herbert Acquay, David Molden, Sarah Scherr, Christian Valentin and Olufunke Cofie
• Land degradation and water productivity in agricultural landscapes / Deborah Bossio, Andrew Noble, David Molden and Vinay Nangia
• Land degradation, ecosystem services and resilience of smallholder Farmers in Makanya Catchment, Tanzania / Line J. Gordon and Elin I. Enfors
• The political ecologies of bright spots / Kim Geheb and Everisto Mapedza
• Large-scale fluxes of crop nutrients in food cause environmental problems at sources and at sinks / Frits Penning de Vries
• Carbon sequestration, land degradation and water / Antonio Trabucco, Deborah Bossio and Oliver van Straaten
• Local innovation in 'green water' management / William Critchley, Girish Negi and Marit Brommer
• Sustainability and resilience of the urban agricultural phenomenon in Africa / Pay Drechsel, Olufunke Cofie and Seydou Niang
• Safeguarding water resources by making the land greener : knowledge management through WOCAT / Hanspeter Liniger and William Critchley
• Bright basins : do many bright spots make a basin shine? / Francis Gichuki and David Molden
• The influence of plant cover structures on water fluxes in agricultural Landscapes / Lech Ryszkowski and Andrzej Kȩdziora
• Investments in collective capacity and social capital / Jules Pretty
• Bright spots : pathways to ensuring food security and environmental integrity / Andrew Noble, Deborah Bossio, Jules Pretty and Frits Penning de Vries
• Ecosystem benefits of 'bright' spots / Deborah Bossio, Andrew Noble, Noel Aloysius, Jules Pretty and Frits Penning de Vries.