Water productivity and poverty in the transboundary river basin of India and Bangladesh: a situation analysis. Project report submitted to IUCN under the project "Water Productivity, Poverty and Food Security?.

For decades, increasing land productivity was a major driver of improving food security and reducing rural poverty. However, with increasing water scarcities, competing water demand across different sectors, and increasing cost of investments in water resources development require a paradigm shift....

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Autores principales: Amarasinghe, Upali A., Sharma, Bharat R.
Formato: Informe técnico
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: International Water Management Institute 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/39982
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description For decades, increasing land productivity was a major driver of improving food security and reducing rural poverty. However, with increasing water scarcities, competing water demand across different sectors, and increasing cost of investments in water resources development require a paradigm shift. Improving the productivity of water use is emerging as a new way of addressing water scarcity while reducing vulnerability and improving income. Increasing both physical and economic water productivities (quantity per drop and value per drop) are central to this approach. The extent to which physical and economic water productivity should be improved is and area and context specific. However, the approach is especially important in areas that are populated with large agriculturally dependent small-holder rural people and areas that experience recurrent droughts and floods and lack access to proper infrastructure. A major part of the Ganga-Brahamaputra-Meghna (MBG) river basins have such characteristics. This report examines the current situation of poverty, food security and water productivity and their linkages and knowledge gaps in the MBG basins.
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spelling CGSpace399822023-09-23T17:51:47Z Water productivity and poverty in the transboundary river basin of India and Bangladesh: a situation analysis. Project report submitted to IUCN under the project "Water Productivity, Poverty and Food Security?. Amarasinghe, Upali A. Sharma, Bharat R. water productivity water scarcity water demand water use food security rural poverty indicators river basins international waters environmental effects economic aspects income groundwater For decades, increasing land productivity was a major driver of improving food security and reducing rural poverty. However, with increasing water scarcities, competing water demand across different sectors, and increasing cost of investments in water resources development require a paradigm shift. Improving the productivity of water use is emerging as a new way of addressing water scarcity while reducing vulnerability and improving income. Increasing both physical and economic water productivities (quantity per drop and value per drop) are central to this approach. The extent to which physical and economic water productivity should be improved is and area and context specific. However, the approach is especially important in areas that are populated with large agriculturally dependent small-holder rural people and areas that experience recurrent droughts and floods and lack access to proper infrastructure. A major part of the Ganga-Brahamaputra-Meghna (MBG) river basins have such characteristics. This report examines the current situation of poverty, food security and water productivity and their linkages and knowledge gaps in the MBG basins. 2011 2014-06-13T14:29:48Z 2014-06-13T14:29:48Z Report https://hdl.handle.net/10568/39982 en Limited Access International Water Management Institute Amarasinghe, Upali; Sharma, Bharat R. 2011. Water productivity and poverty in the transboundary river basin of India and Bangladesh: a situation analysis. Project report submitted to IUCN under the project ?Water Productivity, Poverty and Food Security?. New Delhi, India: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). 24p.
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water scarcity
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rural poverty
indicators
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international waters
environmental effects
economic aspects
income
groundwater
Amarasinghe, Upali A.
Sharma, Bharat R.
Water productivity and poverty in the transboundary river basin of India and Bangladesh: a situation analysis. Project report submitted to IUCN under the project "Water Productivity, Poverty and Food Security?.
title Water productivity and poverty in the transboundary river basin of India and Bangladesh: a situation analysis. Project report submitted to IUCN under the project "Water Productivity, Poverty and Food Security?.
title_full Water productivity and poverty in the transboundary river basin of India and Bangladesh: a situation analysis. Project report submitted to IUCN under the project "Water Productivity, Poverty and Food Security?.
title_fullStr Water productivity and poverty in the transboundary river basin of India and Bangladesh: a situation analysis. Project report submitted to IUCN under the project "Water Productivity, Poverty and Food Security?.
title_full_unstemmed Water productivity and poverty in the transboundary river basin of India and Bangladesh: a situation analysis. Project report submitted to IUCN under the project "Water Productivity, Poverty and Food Security?.
title_short Water productivity and poverty in the transboundary river basin of India and Bangladesh: a situation analysis. Project report submitted to IUCN under the project "Water Productivity, Poverty and Food Security?.
title_sort water productivity and poverty in the transboundary river basin of india and bangladesh a situation analysis project report submitted to iucn under the project water productivity poverty and food security
topic water productivity
water scarcity
water demand
water use
food security
rural poverty
indicators
river basins
international waters
environmental effects
economic aspects
income
groundwater
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