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Sylvain Perret
Researcher at Asian Institute of Technology
Publications - 110
Citations - 2113
Sylvain Perret is an academic researcher from Asian Institute of Technology. The author has contributed to research in topics: Livelihood & Sustainability. The author has an hindex of 24, co-authored 107 publications receiving 1847 citations. Previous affiliations of Sylvain Perret include Centre de coopération internationale en recherche agronomique pour le développement & University of Pretoria.
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Water policies and smallholding irrigation schemes in South Africa: a history and new institutional challenges
TL;DR: In this paper, the origin and history of small-scale irrigation schemes in previously disadvantaged rural areas of South Africa is described and the implications of the 1998 National Water Act on those schemes are analyzed.
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LCA of local and imported tomato: an energy and water trade-off
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focused on the case study of off-season tomatoes produced in Morocco under unheated greenhouses in a water-scarce area, which covers 68% of the fresh tomatoes imported to France.
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Water Footprint and Impact of Water Consumption for Food, Feed, Fuel Crops Production in Thailand
Shabbir H. Gheewala,Thapat Silalertruksa,Pariyapat Nilsalab,Rattanawan Mungkung,Sylvain Perret,Nuttapon Chaiyawannakarn +5 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors assessed the water footprint of ten staple crops grown in different regions across the country and evaluated the impact of crop water use in different areas/watersheds by the water stress index and the indication of water deprivation potential.
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Eco-efficiency of paddy rice production in Northeastern Thailand: a comparison of rain-fed and irrigated cropping systems
TL;DR: In this article, the advantages of rice production under irrigation and rain-fed conditions in both environmental and economic terms were compared with environmental impact indicators based upon life cycle assessment, energy and water use analyses data were collected in 2010 at the farm level in 43 households of Lam Sieo Yai Basin in North-Eastern Thailand.
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Household-level vulnerability to drought in hill agriculture of Nepal: implications for adaptation planning
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used an objective method of vulnerability analysis, applying multivariate independence techniques, to identify the sources of vulnerability in rainfed hill agriculture of Nepal, and used principal component analysis (PCA) to prioritise the indicators and cluster analysis (CA) was used to classify them.