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

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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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Main Authors: Mukherji, Aditi, Facon, T., Fraiture, Charlotte de, Molden, David J., Chartres, Colin J.
Format: Journal Article
Language:Inglés
Published: IWA Publishing 2012
Subjects:
groundwater
irrigation
irrigation systems
management
management techniques
groundwater irrigation
irrigation schemes
water demand
water rates
irrigated farming
public-private cooperation
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/34558
Summary: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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