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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Acequia"”.
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The Status and Sustainability of Acequias on the Lower Rio Chama River, New Mexico
Acequia communities throughout northern New Mexico are threatened by the loss of water rights and land to both urban and exurban development. Planning techniques are utilized to ascertain the status of acequias on the lower Rio Chama River, New Mexico, with the data applied to developing a model …
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El agua no se vende, el agua se defiende : water rights transfers and community irrigation in New Mexico's acequias
Small farmers across New Mexico irrigate with acequias, a system of cooperative, gravity-fed ditches introduced in Spanish colonial times that remains well adapted to managing scarce water in a dry climate. While the acequia system has proven to be a self-sustaining means of managing common pool …
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A Trickle Runs Through It: An Environmental History of the Santa Fe River, New Mexico
… of water allocation and governance via acequia (irrigation ditch) communities are starkly different from the present piping infrastructure, where river water is stored behind dams and delivery occurs at a price.</p><p>Research objectives include: (1) describing the past and present …
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Aplicación de la metodología, valoración del daño por erosión actual (VADEA) en parcelas con diferentes prácticas de CSA (San Ramón, Matagalpa 1997)
… y Frijol), con y sin prácticas de retención (acequia, barrera viva y barrera muerta). Uno de los objetivos del estudio fue conocer y aplicar la metodología VADEA (Valoración del Daño por Erosión Actual) con el propósito de valorar esta herramienta sencilla en la estimación rápida de le …
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Soil microbial community dynamics associated with agricultural crops
… formally describe a fungal species, Penicillium acequia sp. nov. This fungal species was prevalent in agricultural soils and morphologically and genetically different from its closest relative. This new species has potential to be cultured and utilized as a biocontrol or for production of …
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Envisioning the Farms of the Future: In Pursuit of Sustainable Agriculture in the Rio Grande valley
This thesis attempts to define the parameters that characterize sustainable agriculture on the level of an individual farm in the context of the central Rio Grande valley. Using historical sources about New Mexican agriculture, contemporary scientific literature and interviews with practicing …