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435 (Machado 2011 ; Brown and Huggins 2012 ), decreased soil health and crop produc- tivity. The same trend has been observed in ...

436 7 Conclusions Dryland crop production is of major importance in North America, with large areas of dryland farming in Canada ...

437 References Aase JK, Pikul JL (1995) Crop and soil response to long-term tillage practices in the northern Great Plains. Agro ...

438 Council for Agricultural Science and Technology (CAST) 2012 Herbicide-resistant weeds threaten soil conservation gains: find ...

439 Kettler TA, Lyon DJ, Doran JW, Powers WL, Stroup WW (2000) Soil quality assessment after weed-control tillage in a no-till w ...

440 Monfreda C, Ramankutty N, Foley JA (2008) Farming the planet. Part 2: geographic distribution of crop areas, yields, physiol ...

4 41 Siebert, S., Henrich, V., Frenken, K., and Burke, J. 2013. Global map of irrigation areas version 5. Rheinische Friedrich-W ...

© Springer International Publishing AG 2016 443 M. Farooq, K.H.M. Siddique (eds.), Innovations in Dryland Agriculture, DOI 10.10 ...

444 Food insecurity in the region is generally caused by low and stagnant agricultural productivity as expressed by low crop yie ...

445 2 Dryland Farming Systems SSA farming systems can be classified into 13 broad farming systems, where each has a unique core ...

446 farmers’ fields in Mozambique, often as low as 40 % of the recommended density, which significantly reduces farm productivit ...

447 (Cajanus cajan). Cotton (Gossypium hirsutum), tea (Camellia sinensis), macadamia nuts (Macadamia), tobacco (Nicotiana tabacu ...

448 opment actors. However, it is difficult to realistically predict mainly because there is a lack of historical data in the re ...

449 use of scarce natural resources. Careful balancing of how this maximization is achieved can help increase the productivity o ...

450 agricultural water management practices, could provide opportunities to cope with the impacts of increasing climatic variabi ...

451 sustainably manage them (IFAD 2004 ). However, there is increasing government interest and investment to develop the water r ...

452 Limpopo and the Zambezi. The irrigation potential is estimated to be >3 million ha but only a small part of it is being d ...

453 certain agricultural enterprise or management would also influence water productiv- ity as it affects the quantity and quali ...

454 judicious amounts of fertilisers and improved nutrient management are the major components of soil fertility management, inv ...

455 measures such as liming and corrective fertiliser compounds are currently in demand though small-scale farmers cannot easily ...