Growing more food with less water: how can revitalizing Asia's irrigation help?

Asia accounts for 70% of the world's irrigated area and is home to some of the oldest and largest irrigation schemes. While these irrigation schemes played an important role in ensuring food security for billions of people in the past, their current state of affairs leaves much to be desired. This p...

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Autores principales: Mukherji, Aditi, Facon, T., Fraiture, Charlotte de, Molden, David J., Chartres, Colin J.
Formato: Journal Article
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: IWA Publishing 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/34558
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author Mukherji, Aditi
Facon, T.
Fraiture, Charlotte de
Molden, David J.
Chartres, Colin J.
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Facon, T.
Fraiture, Charlotte de
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description Asia accounts for 70% of the world's irrigated area and is home to some of the oldest and largest irrigation schemes. While these irrigation schemes played an important role in ensuring food security for billions of people in the past, their current state of affairs leaves much to be desired. This paper takes forward the IWMI–FAO–ADB (Asian Development Bank) recommendation of a five-pronged approach for revitalizing Asia's irrigation and provides a region-specific road map for doing this. The underlying principle of these multiple strategies is the belief that the public institutions at the heart of irrigation management in Asia need to give up comfortable rigidity and engage with individual users' needs and the demands placed by larger societal changes.
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spelling CGSpace345582024-05-07T18:14:35Z Growing more food with less water: how can revitalizing Asia's irrigation help? Mukherji, Aditi Facon, T. Fraiture, Charlotte de Molden, David J. Chartres, Colin J. groundwater irrigation irrigation systems management management techniques groundwater irrigation irrigation schemes water demand water rates irrigated farming public-private cooperation Asia accounts for 70% of the world's irrigated area and is home to some of the oldest and largest irrigation schemes. While these irrigation schemes played an important role in ensuring food security for billions of people in the past, their current state of affairs leaves much to be desired. This paper takes forward the IWMI–FAO–ADB (Asian Development Bank) recommendation of a five-pronged approach for revitalizing Asia's irrigation and provides a region-specific road map for doing this. The underlying principle of these multiple strategies is the belief that the public institutions at the heart of irrigation management in Asia need to give up comfortable rigidity and engage with individual users' needs and the demands placed by larger societal changes. 2012-06-01 2013-11-21T05:02:23Z 2014-02-02T16:39:50Z 2013-11-21T05:02:23Z 2014-02-02T16:39:50Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/34558 en Limited Access IWA Publishing Mukherji, A., Facon, T., de Fraiture, C., Molden, D., & Chartres, C. (2011). Growing more food with less water: how can revitalizing Asia’s irrigation help? Water Policy, 14(3), 430–446. https://doi.org/10.2166/wp.2011.146
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irrigation
irrigation systems
management
management techniques
groundwater irrigation
irrigation schemes
water demand
water rates
irrigated farming
public-private cooperation
Mukherji, Aditi
Facon, T.
Fraiture, Charlotte de
Molden, David J.
Chartres, Colin J.
Growing more food with less water: how can revitalizing Asia's irrigation help?
title Growing more food with less water: how can revitalizing Asia's irrigation help?
title_full Growing more food with less water: how can revitalizing Asia's irrigation help?
title_fullStr Growing more food with less water: how can revitalizing Asia's irrigation help?
title_full_unstemmed Growing more food with less water: how can revitalizing Asia's irrigation help?
title_short Growing more food with less water: how can revitalizing Asia's irrigation help?
title_sort growing more food with less water how can revitalizing asia s irrigation help
topic groundwater
irrigation
irrigation systems
management
management techniques
groundwater irrigation
irrigation schemes
water demand
water rates
irrigated farming
public-private cooperation
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/34558
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