Assessment of flood recession farming for livelihood provision, food security and environmental sustainability in the Ganga River Basin

Poverty, food insecurity and environmental degradation are the recurrent problems in the Ganga River Basin (GRB). The Ganga River enriches the fertility of floodplain through flooding every year. Farmers have been utilizing this fertility for growing crops by flood recession farming (FRF) since anti...

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Main Authors: Rinku Singh, Sanoj Kumar Patel, Amit Kumar Tiwari, Gopal Shankar Singh
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2021-01-01
Series:Current Research in Environmental Sustainability
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666049021000141