Coping with drought in irrigated South India: Farmers' adjustments in Nagarjuna Sagar

Agricultural Water Management

Volumn 97, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1434-1442

  Venot, Jean Philippe ^a   Reddy, V Ratna ^b   Umapathy, Deeptha ^c  

^a INTERNATIONAL WATER MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE   (Ghana)

^b Livelihoods and Natural Resource Management Institute   (India)

^c Institute for Financial Management and Research   (India)

Author keywords

Adaptability; Large scale irrigation; Water allocation; Water availability

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE CAPACITY; ADAPTIVE STRATEGY; AGRICULTURAL ENVIRONMENTS; ANDHRA PRADESH; CANAL NETWORK; CONJUNCTIVE USE; CROP DIVERSIFICATION; DEFICIT IRRIGATION; HEAD-END; IRRIGATION PROJECTS; IRRIGATION SYSTEMS; IRRIGATION WATER ALLOCATION; PAPER DOCUMENTS; RESOURCE BASE; SOUTH INDIA; SURFACE IRRIGATION; WATER ALLOCATIONS; WATER AVAILABILITY; WATER CONDITIONS; WATER DEMAND; WATER DEVELOPMENT; WATER USE;

CROPS; CULTIVATION; IRRIGATION; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER SUPPLY; WATER SUPPLY SYSTEMS;

RIVERS;

ADAPTATION; IRRIGATION SYSTEM; WATER AVAILABILITY; WATER DEMAND; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER RESOURCE; WATER SUPPLY;

AUSTRALIA; INDIA; KRISHNA BASIN;

EID: 77954543061     PISSN: 03783774     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agwat.2010.04.009     Document Type: Article

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