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| Provedor de dados: |
AgEcon
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| País: |
United States
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| Título: |
Shallow groundwater in the Atankwidi Catchment of the White Volta Basin: current status and future sustainability
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| Autores: |
Barry, Boubacar
Kortatsi, Benony
Forkuor, Gerald
Gumma, Murali Krishna
Namara, Regassa E.
Rebelo, Lisa-Maria
van den Berg, Joost
Laube, Wolfram
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| Data: |
2011-08-12
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| Ano: |
2010
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| Palavras-chave: |
Groundwater irrigation
Aquifers
River basins
Catchment areas
Irrigation practices
Remote sensing
Mapping
Crop Production/Industries
Farm Management
Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
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| Resumo: |
The Atankwidi Catchment, which lies in the White Volta Basin in West Africa, is intensively cultivated by locals for economic gains. During dry seasons, farmers irrigate their crops, chiefly tomatoes, using shallow groundwater harvested from shallow ponds they dig using simple tools like an axe, hoe, bucket and bowls. Recent expansion in cultivated areas has brought to the fore the need to estimate the volume of shallow groundwater stored in the catchment’s underlying aquifer and to what extent it can sustain the incremental growth in irrigated areas.
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| Tipo: |
Report
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| Idioma: |
Inglês
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| Identificador: |
978-92-9090-737-4
1026-0862
http://purl.umn.edu/112969
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| Relação: |
International Water Management Institute>IWMI Research Reports
IWMI Research Report
139
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| Formato: |
23p.
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