Productivity and Efficiency

According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, water efficiency is the smart use of our water resources through water-saving technologies and simple steps. Using water efficiently will help ensure reliable water supplies today and for future generations. Topics addressed in this theme provide insights, lessons, and guidance on how diverse stakeholders are working to improve water management and reduce water use.

Productivity and Efficiency Resources

Midterm Evaluation of Semi-Arid Tropics Crops Research: Phase Ii, ICRISAT/Mali

Published: 
November 1, 1983
U.S. Agency for International Development
ICRISAT/Mali has played a steadily expanding role in applied sorghum and millet breeding and related dryland farming agronomy in Mali since 1976. This mid-term evaluation effort has focused specifically on the past two-and-one-half years of this effort under current Phase II USAID bilateral...Read more
Regional focus: 
MaliSub-Saharan Africa

Development of Irrigated Agriculture in Mali: General Overview and Prospects, Proposals for a Second Program, 1980-1985

Published: 
October 1, 1979
U.S. Agency for International Development
Experts visited Mali to study the status of irrigation and irrigated farming projects in Mali. The mission attempted to: analyze the main constraints to developing irrigation at the national level, making proposals to overcome these constraints, identifying future studies, gathering data on the new...Read more
Regional focus: 
MaliSub-Saharan Africa

Inland Fisheries in Developing Countries: an Opportunity for a Farming Systems Approach to Research and Management

U.S. Agency for International Development
The farming systems research and extension (FSR/E) methodology is appropriate for identifying management strategies for artisanal fisheries in riverine systems, according to this paper. The paper first stresses the importance of inland fisheries as a source of food and income in the developing...Read more
Regional focus: 
MaliSub-Saharan Africa

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