Nalini S. Rao

TL;DR: Urgent technical, financial and institutional support is needed to improve the agricultural production and food security of Malagasy farmers and make their livelihoods resilient to climate change.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors conducted interviews with 200 smallholder farmers following the impacts of cyclone Giovanna (a category 4 cyclone that struck in February 2012) to understand how farmers prepared for the cyclone, how cyclone impacted their livelihoods and what strategies farmers used to deal with these impacts.

TL;DR: In this article , the authors conducted technoeconomic analyses to evaluate the current desalination and brine management technologies, focusing on the key factors and opportunities for sustainable brackish water desalinization for municipal uses.

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors present theoretical considerations needed to understand the various downscaling methods and present a practical workflow for selecting downscaled datasets, and critically assess the existing down-scaling approaches and then provide practical considerations.

TL;DR: In this paper , a review of 21 different models commonly used for modeling hydrology (8), water quality (6) or both (7) at the watershed scale was conducted and the results indicate that three hydrologic models, MIKE-SHE, HEC-HMS, and MODHMS stand out in terms of functionality, availability, applicability to a wide range of watersheds and scales, ease of implementation, and availability of support.