Managing water by managing land: Addressing land degradation to improve water productivity and rural livelihoods

Agricultural Water Management

Volumn 97, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 536-542

  Bossio, Deborah ^a   Geheb, Kim ^b   Critchley, William ^c  

^a International Water Management Institute IWMI   (Sri Lanka)

^b INTERNATIONAL WATER MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE   (Ethiopia)

^c Centre for International Cooperation   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Land degradation; Land use management; Water management; Water productivity

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; AGRICULTURAL LANDSCAPES; AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIONS; AGRICULTURAL WATER; AGRICULTURAL WATER USE; FOOD DEMAND; LAND DEGRADATION; LAND MANAGEMENTS; LAND-USE DECISIONS; LAND-USE MANAGEMENT; MANAGING LANDS; MULTIFUNCTIONALITY; NUTRIENT DEPLETION; RURAL LIVELIHOOD; SMALL SCALE; SOIL EROSION; WATER AVAILABILITY; WATER CYCLE; WATER PRODUCTIVITY; WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT; WATER USE;

AGRICULTURE; BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; DEGRADATION; LAND USE; PRODUCTIVITY; SURVEYS; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER SUPPLY;

MANAGEMENT;

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; FOOD AVAILABILITY; LAND DEGRADATION; LAND MANAGEMENT; NUTRIENT LOSS; RURAL AREA; RURAL PLANNING; SOIL EROSION; URBAN REGION; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER USE;

EID: 74149091606     PISSN: 03783774     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agwat.2008.12.001     Document Type: Article

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