Rice growing in the water
by Palal Moet Moet Do you know how to sow rice in deep water? In the soil – of course: … Continued
Livelihoods from Floods
Lake Malawi: The Vanishing Blessing
by Blessings Jeranji Shores of lake Malawi, everyday business Malawi as a country has been blessed by a lake called … Continued
Gash the traveler
by Ahmed A. Bagi Alamin She starts her journey in Asmara City, and she always gets up after the heavy … Continued
Creating opportunity out of a problem: the hidden cotton plant
Blogpost by Celestine Kilongosi Calotropis procera tree is one among the many invasive plants in Kajiado County, Kenya. However, we … Continued
Starving the Tihama: Impact of War on Spate Irrigation Systems in Yemen
by Adel Zolail and Frank van Steenbergen For reasons no one can explain, a war has been raging in Yemen … Continued
Resolving the Drought Puzzle in Northern Kenya
by Elly Arukulem Yaluk April 28, 2017 Drought haunts pastoral livelihoods in Masol, West Pokot county, Kenya Letter from West … Continued
King Capillary: The Miracle Water Buffer
by Matthijs Kool, Abraham Mehari Haile, Karim Nawaz and Frank van Steenbergen December 12, 2016 In the Gash Spate Irrigation … Continued
Prepared for a wet year?
By Madiha Al-Junaid (This article was written during the rainy time this summer, July and August. At that time Yemen … Continued
Kingdoms of Spate
Like in other Kingdoms of the world, the Raya-valley farmers have their own rulers, the Kings of Spate. These … Continued
Eye on the Dry
By Frank van Steenbergen, Yasir Abbas Mohamed, Abraham Mehari Haile May 7, 2015 Small Water tank in Gash Die This is … Continued
How the British did it better
by Usman Qazi In a relentless pursuit of growth and development, the Pakistani state has ignored colonial-era strategies—that took natural risks, … Continued
Spate Irrigation: Lessons for Adaptive Management of a Variable Climate
COP 17 is quietly underway in Durban, South Africa. Compared to previous rounds of global climate negotiations, there has been … Continued
Dossiers
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- Soil Management
- Green Transformation
- Green Roads for Water
- Dryland Development
- Regenerative Agriculture
- Livelihoods from Floods
- Locally-Led Adaptation in Practice
- The underground drought
- Water and Development Partnership
- Preserving Assets - Operation and Maintenance in Delta’s
- Is the world getting saltier?
- Water integrity
- Water Productivity
- Managing Desert Locusts
- None left behind
- Mega Irrigation
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