Improving Water Management on Small to Medium Scale Irrigation Projects
Title | Improving Water Management on Small to Medium Scale Irrigation Projects PDF eBook |
Author | I. W. Makin |
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Release | 19?? |
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Improving International Irrigation Management With Farmer Participation
Title | Improving International Irrigation Management With Farmer Participation PDF eBook |
Author | Norman Uphoff |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 172 |
Release | 2019-05-20 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0429712588 |
Traditionally, indigenous irrigation in many countries of Asia, Africa, and Latin America has been managed quite well by water users, who design, build, operate, and maintain often sophisticated, but usually small-scale, systems. More recently, in connection with large-scale development programs and government-managed schemes, the planned introduct
Practices of Irrigation & On-farm Water Management: Volume 2
Title | Practices of Irrigation & On-farm Water Management: Volume 2 PDF eBook |
Author | Hossain Ali |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Pages | 563 |
Release | 2011-01-11 |
Genre | Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | 144197637X |
The comprehensive and compact presentation in this book is the perfect format for a resource/textbook for undergraduate students in the areas of Agricultural Engineering, Biological Systems Engineering, Bio-Science Engineering, Water Resource Engineering, and Civil & Environmental Engineering. This book will also serve as a reference manual for researchers and extension workers in such diverse fields as agricultural engineering, agronomy, ecology, hydrology, and meteorology.
Improving Policies and Programs for the Development of Small-scale Irrigation Systems
Title | Improving Policies and Programs for the Development of Small-scale Irrigation Systems PDF eBook |
Author | E. Walter Coward (Jr.) |
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Pages | 28 |
Release | 1984 |
Genre | Agricultural assistance |
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Best practices and technologies for small scale agricultural water management in Ethiopia. Proceedings of a MoARD / MoWR / USAID / IWMI Symposium and Exhibition held at Ghion Hotel, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 7-9 March, 2006.
Title | Best practices and technologies for small scale agricultural water management in Ethiopia. Proceedings of a MoARD / MoWR / USAID / IWMI Symposium and Exhibition held at Ghion Hotel, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 7-9 March, 2006. PDF eBook |
Author | Awulachew, Seleshi Bekele |
Publisher | IWMI |
Pages | 214 |
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ISBN | 929090657X |
Policy / Irrigation practices / Drip irrigation / Irrigation systems / Water harvesting / Irrigation management
Improving Irrigation Water Management on Farms
Title | Improving Irrigation Water Management on Farms PDF eBook |
Author | Colorado State University. Water Management Research Project |
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Pages | 597 |
Release | 1980 |
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Is irrigation fit for purpose? A review of the relationships between scheme size and performance of irrigation systems
Title | Is irrigation fit for purpose? A review of the relationships between scheme size and performance of irrigation systems PDF eBook |
Author | McCarthy, Nancy |
Publisher | Intl Food Policy Res Inst |
Pages | 57 |
Release | 2023-04-18 |
Genre | Political Science |
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Irrigation is increasingly being called upon to help stabilize and grow food and water security in the face of multiple crises; these crises include climate change, but also recent global food and energy price crises, including the 2007/08 food and energy price crises, and the more recent crises triggered by the COVID 19 pandemic and the war on Ukraine. While irrigation development used to focus on public, large-scale, surface- and reservoir-fed systems, over the last several decades, private small-scale investments in groundwater irrigation have grown in importance and are expected to see rapid future growth, particularly in connection with solar-powered pumping systems. But is irrigation ‘fit-for-purpose’ to support population growth, economic development, and multiple food, energy and climate crises? This paper reviews how fit-for-purpose irrigation is with a focus on economies of scale of surface and groundwater systems, and a particular examination of systems in Sub-Saharan Africa where the need for expansion is largest. The review finds challenges for both larger surface and smaller groundwater systems in the face of growing demand for irrigated agriculture and dwindling and less reliable water supplies. To support resilience of the sector, we propose both a holistic design and management improvement agenda for larger surface systems, and a series of suggestions to improve sustainability concerns of groundwater systems