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| International Water Management Institute (IWMI). |
| China and India face similar challenges in managing their irrigation economies. Both are developing nations with large agricultural populations, high population densities and a high proportion of agriculture under irrigation. Both are facing challenges in financing existing irrigation systems in the face of broader economic reforms. And in both countries, groundwater provides a particular challenge since it is a major source of irrigation, but with accelerating declines in both quantity and quality. Problems in financing surface irrigation systems, worries about continued groundwater table declines along with cost implications for both farmers and the energy industry, and a range of other issues have raised serious concerns over the future sustainability... |
| Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Irrigation systems; Groundwater irrigation; Energy; Cost recovery; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/113015 |
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| International Water Management Institute (IWMI). |
| Based on research presented in “Institutional Alternatives in African Smallholder Irrigation: :Lessons from International Experience with Irrigation Management Transfer (IWMI Research Report 60)” by Tushaar Shah, Barbara van Koppen, Marna de Lange, Madar Samad, and Douglas Merrey. An international review of IMT experiences shows that for transfer to work, the irrigation system must be central to a wealth-creating agriculture within which IMT makes good economic sense to farmers. This is not the case in a majority of Africa’s smallholder schemes. Making IMT work in this context means addressing a number of challenges: smallholder dependency resulting from years of state intervention in farm operations and management, farmers’ inability to depend on... |
| Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Water management; Privatization; Small scale systems; Small holders; Farm Management. |
| Ano: 2003 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/113017 |
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| According to research done by the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), one-third of the world’s population will face absolute water scarcity by the year 2025. Among the worst hit will be regions in Asia, the Middle-East and Sub-Saharan Africa, home to some of the largest concentrations of rural poverty in the world. Policymakers, researchers, NGOs, and farmers are pursuing various technical, institutional and policy interventions to meet this challenge. Micro-irrigation technologies, commonly in use in water scarce areas of developed countries, constitute one such intervention with the ability to use water more efficiently in irrigated agriculture. These technologies can improve productivity; raise incomes through crop yields and outputs; and... |
| Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Irrigated farming; Technology; Drip irrigation; Rural women; Farm Management; Food Security and Poverty. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/113058 |
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| International Water Management Institute (IWMI). |
| Recurring water crises, global water initiatives, and demands for water reforms by development banks, have all pushed water up the agenda of most Mekong-region countries. Many changes have already been made. Now decision makers need to know what has worked, what hasn’t, and why. To find out, IWMI has reviewed new water policies, plans and laws, and assessed participation, the new water ‘apex bodies’, and integrated water resources management (IWRM). The findings show that top-down state policies based on ‘blueprints’ are widely applied in a one-size-fits-all approach, without taking local realities into account. Water planning is still largely expert-driven, and focused on procedures and targets. There is little room for decision-making that is based on... |
| Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Water management; River basins; Governance; Policy making; Planning; Water law; Agricultural and Food Policy. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/113061 |
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