Knowledge compendium, Dialogue on bridging water, food security and sustainable agribusiness development in Africa

In this knowledge compendium a series of contributions illustrates how Wageningen UR cooperates with African organizations in finding innovations to combat water scarcity and to deliver the scientific knowledge necessary for future actions. In most of these activities, the integration of the formal knowledge of WUR with the tacit knowledge of the local stakeholders plays an important role. The Dutch Ministery of Economic Affairs, Agriculture and Innovation (ELI (2) advances in research; (3) adaptation and implementation; (4) knowledge transfer. The contributions aim to stimulate further research and cooperation as a basis for the development of further management measures.

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[10]  J. Rockström,et al.  The New Blue and Green Water Paradigm: Breaking New Ground for Water Resources Planning and Management , 2006 .

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[13]  H. Ritzema.  Drain for Gain: Making Water Management Worth its Salt: Subsurface Drainage Practices in Irrigated Agriculture in Semi-arid and Arid Regions , 2009 .

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[16]  Chris Perry,et al.  Efficient irrigation; inefficient communication; flawed recommendations , 2007 .

[17]  W. Bastiaanssen,et al.  SEBAL for detecting spatial variation of water productivity and scope for improvement in eight irrigated wheat systems , 2007 .

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