Productivity and Efficiency
According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, water efficiency is the smart use of our water resources through water-saving technologies and simple steps. Using water efficiently will help ensure reliable water supplies today and for future generations. Topics addressed in this theme provide insights, lessons, and guidance on how diverse stakeholders are working to improve water management and reduce water use.
Productivity and Efficiency Resources
Water Constraints to Corn Production in Central Brazil
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January 1, 1975U.S. Agency for International Development
The area around Brasilia, Brazil is representative of millions of hectares in the tropics with very acid soils of extremely low fertility. The unfavorable water supplying properties of these soils together with the occurrence of wet season dry periods and limitations to root growth due to aluminum...Read more
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BrazilLatin America and the CaribbeanWater Availability and Soil Suitability for Irrigation Water Impoundments in the Federal DistrICT of Brazil
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January 1, 1975U.S. Agency for International Development
Agriculture on the Central Plateau of Brazil is poorly developed. The main reasons are the poor soil fertility and the high aluminum toxicity of the soils, restricting the rooting depth of many crops. Shallow rooting is responsible for the occurrence of serious soil-water stress conditions, even in...Read more
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BrazilLatin America and the CaribbeanProgress Report on Fisheries Development in Brazil
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December 1, 1974U.S. Agency for International Development
Technical assistance rendered under the Auburn University Brazil Contract, provided the initial impetus and training for forming an extension service for intensive fish culture within the DNOCS Directorate of Fisheries and Fishculture. This program put research results to practical use in intensive...Read more
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BrazilLatin America and the CaribbeanFish culture Extension Project: Brazil, July-Dec. 1973
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December 31, 1973U.S. Agency for International Development
This report serves as a progress update for a project developing a self-sufficient extension service within the Directorate of Fisheries and Fishculture. Increased dissemination of scientific information and non-technical information through the local and regional news media reached local farmers...Read more
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BrazilLatin America and the CaribbeanProgress Report I on the Brazil Aquaculture Project
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December 12, 1973U.S. Agency for International Development
This first semi-annual report concerns the activities of the Auburn University Contract, Task Order No. 8, Contract AID/csd-2270, during the period June 16, 1972 through December 16, 1972. Chief of Party, Leonard Lovshin representing the International Center for Aquaculture, Auburn University,...Read more
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BrazilLatin America and the CaribbeanFish Culture Extension Project: Brazil, Dec. 1972-June, 1973
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June 20, 1973U.S. Agency for International Development
Major progress towards implementing a self-sufficient extension service within the DNOCS Directorate of Fisheries and Fishculture was made during the second semester of the present contract. The most meaningful advance was the naming of a permanent, trained DNOCS fishculturist to head the fish...Read more
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BrazilLatin America and the CaribbeanDevelopments in Fish Culture Research in Northeast, Brazil
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January 1, 1973U.S. Agency for International Development
DNOCS, with the help of USAID and Auburn University, has established a solid research center with which to pass on tested systems of fish culture to the farmers of the Northeast and possibly to other countries of Latin and Central America. Research has shown that fish can be cultured economically...Read more
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BrazilLatin America and the CaribbeanProgress Report on Fisheries Development in Northeastern Brazil. I: Aquaculture
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August 1, 1972U.S. Agency for International Development
The United States Agency for International Development has been providing assistance to the Government of Brazil in freshwater fisheries since 1966. The project goal established for this assistance to create a freshwater fisheries group capable of planning and conducting practical research programs...Read more
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BrazilLatin America and the CaribbeanReport: Fish Production, Processing and Marketing
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May 1, 1967U.S. Agency for International Development
In the drought polygon of Northern Brazil, even in non drought years, the shortage of rainfall from June to December causes frequent crop failures and in general tends to cause a shortage of feed for cattle, hogs, poultry and other animals. As a result of the dam and reservoir building program of...Read more
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