Rapid expansion of irrigated agriculture in the Senegal River Valley following the 2008 food price crisis

The expansion of irrigated croplands throughout the 20th century boosted global agricultural productivity, yet limited improvement occurred in sub-Saharan Africa where many irrigation schemes and policies under-delivered. We mapped the distribution of croplands under active irrigation between 1986 a...

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Main Authors: Thomas P Higginbottom, Roshan Adhikari, Timothy Foster
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2023-01-01
Series:Environmental Research Letters
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/acaa46