Agriculture

Globally, the agricultural sector consumes about 70% of the planet’s accessible freshwater. Because water is vital for the success of agriculture, proper water management techniques are necessary to meet food and fiber material demands around the world. Resources available here pay special attention to efficient irrigation and sustainable agriculture techniques.

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Agriculture Resources

Small Scale Irrigation Management: Amendment No. 1

Published: 
March 1, 1995
U.S. Agency for International Development
The goal of SSIMP is to expand agricultural production by diversifying production, increasing cropping intensity and improving water reliability. The project purpose was originally stated as: to design and apply irrigation technologies and management systems in support of diversified cropping...Read more
Regional focus: 
IndonesiaEast Asia and Pacific

Performance Determinants of Irrigators Associations in National Irrigation Systems in Bicol, the Philippines: An Analysis

Published: 
January 1, 1995
U.S. Agency for International Development
A major problem perennially faced by an agricultural economy like the Philippines is low agricultural productivity. With the scarcity of agricultural land that can be additionally cultivated, the country's thrust therefore is towards maximizing productivity in this sector to adequately feed...Read more
Regional focus: 
PhilippinesEast Asia and Pacific

Services of Provincial Irrigation Offices to Communal Irrigation Systems in Western Visayas, the Philippines

Published: 
January 1, 1995
U.S. Agency for International Development
With NIA's efforts toward institutional development and turnover of irrigation systems, donor-assisted irrigation projects in the recent past have included the development of Irrigators' Associations and irrigation management transfer as major components in project implementation. This...Read more
Regional focus: 
PhilippinesEast Asia and Pacific

Irrigation Management Transfer: Selected Papers from the International Conference on Irrigation Management Transfer

Published: 
September 1, 1994
U.S. Agency for International Development
Transfer of irrigation management responsibilities from governments to farmer organizations has become national policy in many countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. In September, 1994, an international conference on the subject, the first of its kind, was convened in Wuhan, China. This...Read more
Regional focus: 
ChinaEast Asia and Pacific

Policy Alternatives for Pump Irrigation in Indonesia

Published: 
May 1, 1993
U.S. Agency for International Development
With more than 5 million ha of land now irrigated, the rapid expansion of gravity irrigation in Indonesia is over. But the government still faces the problem of extending irrigated agriculture to the poorer and drier areas of eastern Indonesia. This study assesses past and present experience with...Read more
Regional focus: 
IndonesiaEast Asia and Pacific

Management Turnover of a Pump Irrigation System in The Philippines: The Farmer'S Way

Published: 
January 1, 1993
U.S. Agency for International Development
The Philippines' National Irrigation Administration (NIA) of the Philippines has piloted and implemented several approaches to organizing farmers to undertake management responsibilities for the operation and maintenance (O&M) of irrigation systems. in 1983, NIA piloted a new approach...Read more
Regional focus: 
PhilippinesEast Asia and Pacific

Irrigation Management for Diversified Cropping in Rice-Based Systems in The Philippines

Published: 
January 1, 1992
U.S. Agency for International Development
AGRICULTURAL DIVERSIFICATION IS evolving as an attractive alternative in agricultural development due to declining worldwide commodity prices of staple crops, particularly rice, instability and unsustainability of agricultural production systems based on single crops, and declining income of the...Read more
Regional focus: 
PhilippinesEast Asia and Pacific

Final Report: AWO Irrigation Project Environmental Assessment

Published: 
January 1, 1991
U.S. Agency for International Development
The major objective of this environmental assessment is to inquire whether there are any probable major negative impacts of this irrigation project on the environment. Conversely, this report also assesses possible negative impacts of the environment on the function and efficiency of the project...Read more
Regional focus: 
IndonesiaEast Asia and Pacific

Rain-fed Resources Development Project: Project Assistance Completion Report

Published: 
January 1, 1991
U.S. Agency for International Development
PACR for a project (9/82-9/91) to support community-based land and water management in upland forest, rain fed agricultural areas, and coastal zones in the Philippines. The project was divided into two cycles. Cycle I (1983-86) was mainly institution building for resource monitoring, policy...Read more
Regional focus: 
PhilippinesEast Asia and Pacific

Final Report: Salomekko Irrigation Project Environmental Assessment

Published: 
December 1, 1990
U.S. Agency for International Development
The major objective of this environmental assessment is to inquire whether there are any probable major negative impacts of this irrigation project on the environment. This report also assesses possible negative impacts of the environment on the function and efficiency of the project. Once harmful...Read more
Regional focus: 
IndonesiaEast Asia and Pacific

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