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Biodrainage

Principles, Experiences and Applications

By: Albertus Frederik Heuperman,A. S. Kapoor,Harry W. Denecke,International Programme for Technology and Research in Irrigation and Drainage. Secretariat,Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

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Biodrainage

Principles, Experiences and Applications

Artificial drainage is essential to sustain irrigated agriculture, in order to control the water table and avoid waterlogging and salinisation. Biodrainage systems rely on vegetation rather than mechanical means to remove excess water, and can provide a cost-effective and environmentally friendly drainage option. This publication presents a range of formally published and unpublished literature on the current level of knowledge of biodrainage, in order to inform further research and promote pilot testing schemes.

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Case Studies on Water Conservation in the Mediterranean Region

By: Alain Vidal,International Programme for Technology and Research in Irrigation and Drainage. Secretariat

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Case Studies on Water Conservation in the Mediterranean Region

By: Alain Vidal,International Programme for Technology and Research in Irrigation and Drainage. Secretariat

In the Mediterranean region, agriculture is considered as the sector where the biggest volume of water can be saved as it represents around 80 percent of total demand, and a large amount of water is poorly used. The idea of the present report is to gather a number of "success stories". The case studies in five countries (Jordan, Morocco, Egypt, Turkey and Tunisia) were analysed in terms of main success as well as limiting factors, reported water savings and crop yield increase, as well as increase of water use efficiency. The lessons learnt include: Localised irrigation is not a miracle technology; modernised surface irrigation can be a water saving technique; a water conservation enabling environment is necessary to achieve successful water conservation and improve water use efficiency; sustainability of water management depends on carefully selected measures that complement each other.

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Biodrainage

Principles, Experiences and Applications

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Principles, Experiences and Applications

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Capacity Development in Irrigation and Drainage

Issues, Challenges and the Way Ahead : Proceedings of the International Workshop Held on 16 September 2003 During the International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage Fifty-fourth International Executive Council Meeting, Montpellier, France

By: International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage,Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Land and Water Development Division,Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

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Capacity Development in Irrigation and Drainage

The consensus among policy-makers in the developing world and aid agencies is that a lack of capacity is constraining the development of irrigated agriculture. Although this concern is not new, it is now receiving much attention in the irrigation and drainage world, where it is becoming an issue in its own right rather than being embedded in infrastructure investment projects. In order to address this issue FAO Land and Water Development Division (AGL) organized a one-day workshop , which brought together a range of case studies from different parts of the world in order to demonstrate that capacity development should be central focus of future strategies on irrigation and drainage. This publication contains a synthesis of the workshop as well as three keynote papers prepared for the workshop based on the available literature and experiences. The complete workshop materials, which include several country papers and complementary documents, are included on a CD-ROM that accompanies this document

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104

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Food & Agriculture Org.

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9251051747

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Costs and Performance of Irrigation Projects

A Comparison of Sub-Saharan Africa and Other Developing Regions

By: Arlene B. Inocencio,International Water Management Institute,Future Harvest (Program)

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Costs and Performance of Irrigation Projects

A Comparison of Sub-Saharan Africa and Other Developing Regions

By: Arlene B. Inocencio,International Water Management Institute,Future Harvest (Program)

High irrigation investment costs together with declining world prices for food and the failures of a number of high profile past irrigation projects are the main reasons for the reluctance of development agencies and governments in sub-Saharan Africa to invest more resources in irrigation. This study aims to systematically establish whether costs of irrigation projects in sub-Saharan Africa are truly high, determine the factors which influence costs and performance of irrigation projects, and recommend cost-reducing and performance-enhancing options to make irrigation investments in the region more attractive. It analyzes 314 irrigation projects implemented from 1967 to 2003 in 50 countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America funded by the World Bank, African Development Bank and the International Fund for Agricultural Development.

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9290906588

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Irrigation Policy and Management in Southeast Asia

By: International Rice Research Institute

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Irrigation Policy and Management in Southeast Asia

By: International Rice Research Institute

Planning and design of irrigation systems; management, operation, and maintenance of irrigation systems;economic analyses of irrigation; organization of irrigation activities and behavior of irrigators.

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9711040263

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An Assessment of the Small-Scale Irrigation Management Turnover Program in Indonesia

By: Douglas L. Vermillion,International Water Management Institute,Madar Samad,Suprodjo Pusposutardjo,Sigit S. Arif,Saiful Rochdyanto

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An Assessment of the Small-Scale Irrigation Management Turnover Program in Indonesia

By: Douglas L. Vermillion,International Water Management Institute,Madar Samad,Suprodjo Pusposutardjo,Sigit S. Arif,Saiful Rochdyanto

Examines the extent to which the Government of Indonesia's aspirations were realized through turnover program adopted in 1987. The impacts of management turnover on irrigation management and irrigated agriculture in selected systems in West and Central Java are analyzed. This study is part of a comparative research program to examine the impacts of irrigation management transfer in several countries using a common methodology.

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Producing More Rice with Less Water from Irrigated Systems

By: Luis Catasús Guerra,International Water Management Institute

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Producing More Rice with Less Water from Irrigated Systems

By: Luis Catasús Guerra,International Water Management Institute

Over the past decade, we have witnessed a growing scarcity of and competition for water around the world. As the demand for water for domestic, municipal, industrial, and environmental purposes rises in the future, less water will be available for agriculture. But the potentials for new water resource development projects and expanding irrigated area are limited. We must therefore find ways to increase the productivity of water used for irrigation. This paper reviews the literature on irrigation efficiency and on the potential for increasing the productivity of water in rice-based systems. It stresses the continuing confusion over the concepts of irrigation efficiency and water productivity. It identifies the reasons for the wide gap between water requirement and actual water input (both irrigation diversions and rainfall) in irrigated rice production systems and discusses potential opportunities for increasing water productivity both on-farm and at the system level. Based on the reported low farm and system level irrigation efficiencies, the potentials for water savings in rice production appear to be very large. But we do not know the degree to which various farm and system interventions will lead to sustainable water savings in the water basin until we can quantify the downstream impact of the interventions. Studies on the economic benefits and costs, and environmental aspects of alternative interventions are also lacking. This paper emphasizes the need to measure the productivity of water at farm, system, and basin levels, and to understand how the productivity at one level relates to the productivity at another. Without water balance studies to measure productivity at these different scales, it is not possible to identify the potential economic benefits of alternative interventions and the most appropriate strategies for increasing irrigation water p productivity in rice-based systems.

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