Author: Washington State University. Department of Agricultural EconomicsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Irrigation
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
A Planning Study for Irrigation Development in Washington: Executive summary
Author: Washington State University. Department of Agricultural EconomicsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Irrigation
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Selected Water Resources Abstracts
Author: Water for the Future
Author: U.S. National Academy of SciencesPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 030906421X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
This book is the result of a joint research effort led by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and involving the Royal Scientific Society of Jordan, the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, and the Palestine Health Council. It discusses opportunities for enhancement of water supplies and avoidance of overexploitation of water resources in the Middle East. Based on the concept that ecosystem goods and services are essential to maintaining water quality and quantity, the book emphasizes conservation, improved use of current technologies, and water management approaches that are compatible with environmental quality.
Selected Water Resources Abstracts
Author: World Development Report 1988
Author: Publisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 0195206509
Category : Banks and Banking Reform
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
This is the eleventh report in the annual series assessing major development issues. Part I reviews recent trends in the world economy and their implications for the future prospects of developing countries. Part II examines the role of public finance in development. This report includes the World Development Indicators, which provide selected social and economic indicators for more than 100 countries. Despite continued economic growth through 1987 and into 1988, two problems have characterized recent trends: unsustainable economic imbalances within and among industrial countries, and highly uneven economic growth among developing countries. Part I of the report concludes that three interdependent policy challenges need to be addressed. First, industrial countries need to reduce their external payments imbalances. Second, developing countries need to continue restructuring their domestic economic policies in order to gain creditworthiness and growth. Third, net resource transfers, external debt, from the developing countries must be trimmed so that investment and growth can resume. Part II of the report explores how public finance policies are best designed and implemented. How deficits are reduced is crucial: controlling costs in mobilizing revenues and setting careful priorities in public spending are equally important. Efficiency in providing public services and expanding the scope for raising revenue can be achieved through decentralizing decisionmaking and reforming state-owned enterprises with the latter permitting greater private participation.
Mapping irrigated areas in the Limpopo Province, South Africa
Author: Cai, XueliangPublisher: International Water Management Institute (IWMI)
ISBN: 9290908513
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
This report summarizes the findings of a collaborative effort to map and assess irrigated areas in the Limpopo Province, South Africa. The study was conducted by the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) in collaboration with the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF) and the Limpopo Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (LDARD), as part of the DAFF-supported ‘Revitalization of irrigation in South Africa’ project. Based on a combination of Landsat and Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) satellite data, previous irrigated area mapping exercises carried out by DAFF and three-field ground truthing (GT) surveys, a total of 1.6 million hectares (Mha) of cropland were identified, with 262,000 ha actually irrigated in the 2015 winter season. The study also found that only 29% of all land equipped with center pivots was actually irrigated.
Consumption-based water management
Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United NationsPublisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
ISBN: 9251367620
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
This document on consumption-based water management (CBWM) distils and expands on the findings of an expert consultation hosted by FAO and the China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research (IWHR). The meeting brought together Chinese and international experts to discuss the technical, governance and broader dimensions of managing consumptive water use, and to understand the implications of more than ten years’ pilot experience in China and its potential for application in a broader range of climatic, political administrative and socioeconomic contexts. The document provides contextual information on CBWM, introduces technical basis for CBWM, takes a closer look at law, policy, and governance and their the relevance in implementing CBWM, and step-by-step detail on implementation of CBWM. Finally, the document argues that the implementation of CBWM requires preliminary steps in developing water accounts, water rights, water allocation processes and associated institutional arrangements, all of which are very relevant and immediately necessary in most countries in Asia.
Energy Abstracts for Policy Analysis
Author: Catalogue of Research Literature for Development: Food production and nutrition, development and economics, education and human resources, health, selected development areas
Author: United States. Agency for International Development. Bureau for Technical AssistancePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural assistance, American
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
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