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Tracy Baker Writes a New Chapter in Africa

Tracy Baker (formerly Baldyga), a GL-CRSP Jim Ellis fellow and past team member of the Sustainable Management of Rural Watersheds (SUMAWA) project, was supported...

Mobile phone becoming the new frontier in agriculture

"This information could be known only to experts. The challenge is how do we get it to the farmers out there, and spot-on so...

More Crop Per Drop

The typical person consumes about 800 gallons of water per year. That includes the water that goes into making your food. The International Water...

Experts Probe Urban Growth, Climate Change Links in Africa

The resulting population growth of urban centers, in turn, places stress on natural resources, such as arable land, natural fuels, and fresh water supplies,...

Will water corruption trump water security?

If that isn't bad enough who can forget the International Water Management Institute map highlighting the entire Murray Darling region as an area of...

Peak Water Has Come and Gone Unnoticed

Similarly in India, the southern state of Tamil Nadu, is fast becoming an aspirer to industrial development and home to more than 62 million...

Development-Africa: A Msg Of Hope To Farmers

"This information could be known only to experts. The challenge is how do we get it to the farmers out there, and spot-on so...