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• Millets
• International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics
• Agriculture in India
• Sorghum
• Pigeon pea
• Kharif crop
• Pearl millet
• Eleusine coracana
• Staple food
• Agriculture
• Cereals
• Tropical agriculture

Irrigated coastal plantations and their impact on mesoscale climate in arid regions Simmondsia chinensis (Jojoba) Jatropha curcas

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• Precipitation
• Rain
• Synoptic scale meteorology
• Atmospheric convection
• Climate
• Atmosphere
• Low-pressure area
• Meteorology
• Atmospheric sciences
• Vortices

Chapter Newsletter Release March 20, 2013 Audubon Launches Multistate Rivers Advocacy Network Chapter members and friends invited to join In the arid West we are all connected by rivers; they are the lifeblood of our

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In the semi-arid shrub-steppe regions of southwest Wyoming, researchers with the US Geological Survey’s Northern Rocky Mountain Science Center are testing the effectiveness of a remote sensing process that could facili

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• Landsat program
• Nature
• Normalized Difference Vegetation Index
• Phenology
• Moderate-Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer
• EVI
• Satellite imagery
• Thematic Mapper
• Earth
• Spacecraft
• Remote sensing

Citation: Günther Fischer, Harrij Van Velthuizen, Eva Hizsnyik, and David Wiberg[removed]Potentially Obtainable Yields in the Semi-Arid Tropics. Global Theme on Agroecosystems Report no. 54 Patancheru[removed], Andhra Pr

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• International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics
• Semi-arid climate
• Soil
• Rain
• Comprehensive Assessment of Water Management in Agriculture
• Food security
• Agriculture
• Fertilizer
• Precipitation
• Environment
• Earth
• Physical geography

Training Institute on Adaptive Water-Energy Management in the Arid Americas Climate change/variability, water and energy and adaptation Alfredo Ribeiro Multiple Use Reservoir Considering a system comprised by dam, hydrop

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• Reservoir
• Irrigation in Egypt
• Dams
• Hydraulic engineering
• Civil engineering

PASI: Adaptive Water-Energy Management in the Arid Americas Program Sun. 23 June

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• Natural resources
• Environmental engineering
• Hydrology
• Physical geography
• WEAP
• Water
• Stockholm Environment Institute
• United States Environmental Protection Agency
• Sustainability
• Environment
• Earth
• Matter

SPECIES SPOTLIGHT: FAIRY SHRIMP Intro Along the trail the soil looks dry. Overhead, a thunderstorm rolls in drowning the arid land. After several hours enough rain falls to create a small pool, a vernal pool. Beneath the

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• Taxonomy
• Vernal pool
• Anostraca
• Shrimp
• Brine shrimp
• Linderiella occidentalis
• Conservancy fairy shrimp
• Branchiopoda
• Phyla
• Protostome

SUSTAINING FARMING in the Arid West: Stories of young farmers, water and resilience The National Young Farmers Coalition (NYFC) represents, mobilizes, and engages young farmers to ensure their success. We are a national

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• Organic food
• Land use
• Agricultural soil science
• Agronomy
• Irrigation
• Water management
• Farm
• Organic Valley
• Organic farming
• Agriculture
• Human geography
• Land management

A Landscape Approach for Detecting and Evaluating Change in a Semi-arid Environment; San Pedro Watershed(U.S./Mexico)

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• Habitats
• Ecosystems
• Biogeography
• Landscape
• Ecology
• Landscape ecology
• Mesquite
• Sonora
• Riparian zone
• Systems ecology
• Biology
• Physical geography