Farm typology in the Berambadi Watershed (India): Farming systems are determined by farm size and access to groundwater

Water (Switzerland)

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Robert, Marion ^a   Thomas, Alban ^b   Sekhar, Muddu ^c   Badiger, Shrinivas ^d   Ruiz, Laurent ^c,e   Willaume, Magali ^a   Leenhardt, Delphine ^a   Bergez, Jacques Eric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^b TOULOUSE SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (France)

^c INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

^d ASHOKA TRUST FOR RESEARCH IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (India)

^e AGROCAMPUS OUEST   (France)

Author keywords

Agglomerative Hierarchical Clustering; Berambadi watershed; Farm typology; Multiple Correspondence Analysis

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; IRRIGATION; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; SURVEYS; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATERSHEDS;

AGGLOMERATIVE HIERARCHICAL CLUSTERING; AGRICULTURAL PRACTICES; AGRICULTURAL WATERSHEDS; DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS; MULTI VARIATE ANALYSIS; MULTIPLE CORRESPONDENCE ANALYSIS; PRODUCTION DECISIONS; WATER MANAGEMENT POLICY;

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT;

CORRESPONDENCE ANALYSIS; CROPPING PRACTICE; FARM SIZE; GROUNDWATER RESOURCE; HETEROGENEITY; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; IRRIGATION SYSTEM; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; TYPOLOGY; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATERSHED;

INDIA; KARNATAKA;

EID: 85011294872     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/w9010051     Document Type: Article

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