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.

Agriculture Resources

Sustainable and Productive Resource Management: Macro Policies for Land and Water Resources

Publication date:
January 1, 1992
U.S. Agency for International Development
This paper is the seventh in a series of ten Policy Papers being prepared under the IMPSA Program. All of the previous papers address issues directly related to improving the performance of irrigated agriculture, with special reference to institutional issues. This paper and the eighth one on...Read more
Regional/Country focus:
Sri Lanka
South East Asia

Promoting Profitable Irrigated Agriculture: Trade and Fiscal Policies

Publication date:
January 1, 1992
U.S. Agency for International Development
The purpose of this paper is to propose a set of guiding principles and feasible strategies on trade and fiscal policies affecting irrigated agriculture in Sri Lanka, which would contribute to achieving high profitability in these systems in the future. The paper also sets out broad guidelines for...Read more
Regional/Country focus:
Sri Lanka
South East Asia

Macro-Irrigation Investment Policy

Publication date:
January 1, 1992
U.S. Agency for International Development
This document is the ninth in the series of ten policy papers to be prepared under the IMPSA Program. It is based primarily on three staff working papers on the issues related to the topic and two studies conducted on future irrigation investment trends, needs and options, one conducted by IIMI and...Read more
Regional/Country focus:
Sri Lanka
South East Asia

Achieving High Productivity and Prosperity of Irrigated Agriculture through Participatory Management

Publication date:
January 1, 1992
U.S. Agency for International Development
This paper is the result of a two-year process of policy analysis, discussion, and paper writing under the Irrigation Management Policy Support Activity (IMPSA). The proposed participatory management policy is based firmly on previous experience, and existing policy. Policy Paper No. 10 embodies...Read more
Regional/Country focus:
Sri Lanka
South East Asia

Crafting Institutions: Self-Governing Irrigation Systems

Publication date:
January 1, 1992
U.S. Agency for International Development
This report outlines an approach to the design of irrigation institutions that is useful to officials in donor agencies, host governments, and other organizations involved in designing irrigation projects in developing countries. The crafting of irrigation institutions is an ongoing process that...Read more
Regional/Country focus:
United States

Project Assistance Completion Report: Irrigation and Water Management I Project, No. 685-0280

Publication date:
December 1, 1991
U.S. Agency for International Development
PACR of a project (1/86-9/92) to expand and improve village-level irrigated farming in the Bakel zone of the Senegal River Basin and to encourage private sector participation that can be replicated throughout the Basin. the project provided a total of 22 person-years of long-term TA and 20 person-...Read more
Regional/Country focus:
Senegal
Sub-Saharan Africa

Evaluation of The Irrigation Support Project for Asia and The Near East

Publication date:
November 1, 1991
U.S. Agency for International Development
The ISPAN Project was evaluated in the context of evolving needs and strategies in A.I.D. This report, therefore, examines the project by looking at irrigation support within A.I.D.'s move to give greater emphasis to water as a natural resource. This new emphasis considers water with respect...Read more
Regional/Country focus:
Middle East and North Africa

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