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

Review of National Laws and Legislations in the Philippines in Relation to Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries Management (EAFM)

Published: 
January 1, 2013
U.S. Agency for International DevelopmentWorld Wildlife Fund
Despite the Philippines' abundant fisheries resources, its marine ecosystems are showing signs of overfishing (FAO 2011). The country is experiencing rapid depletion of its aquatic resources, with 75 percent of its coral reefs degraded, and with its mangrove forest and its other fisheries...Read more
Regional focus: 
PhilippinesEast Asia and Pacific

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

Cymatium muricinum and Other Ranellid Gastropods: Major Predators of Cultured Tridacnid Clams

Published: 
January 1, 1995
U.S. Agency for International Development
The recent development of technology for the ocean culture of juvenile giant clams (family Tridacnidae) in the South Pacific has brought attention to the predatory activities of a hitherto little studied mesogastropod genus, Cymatium (family Ranelidae). The results of research into relevant aspects...Read more
Regional focus: 
PhilippinesEast 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

Final Report: Biotechnological Evaluation of Phycocolloid Quality for Marine Algal Improvement, 9/88-8/91

Published: 
March 1, 1994
U.S. Agency for International Development
This workshop provided a demonstration of carrageenan analytical methods recently developed during the AID project. It consisted of five full days in the Silliman University Marine Laboratory. The number of participants was ten, coming from the Philippine seaweed industry, government agencies and...Read more
Regional focus: 
PhilippinesEast Asia and Pacific

20 Years of Aquaculture Research and Development: An Anniversary Souvenir Volume

Published: 
July 1, 1993
U.S. Agency for International Development
The establishment of the Aquaculture Department (AQD) of the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center (SEAFDEC) was based on the proposal submitted by the Philippine Government for the implementation of an aquaculture project in the Philippines. The proposal was approved by the SEAFDEC Council...Read more
Regional focus: 
PhilippinesEast Asia and Pacific

South Pacific Fisheries Treaty Program

Published: 
June 1, 1993
U.S. Agency for International Development
Program, follow-on to 8790011, to fulfill U.S. commitments under the South Pacific Regional Fisheries Treaty, signed between the United States and certain Pacific Island countries in 1987 to resolve disputes over U.S. tuna fishing in the exclusive economic zones of the island countries. The treaty...Read more
Regional focus: 
East 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

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