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

Fisheries Development and Management

Publication date:
September 1, 1988
U.S. Agency for International Development
Subproject of the U.S.-Omani Joint Commission Project, to develop an institutional capacity within the Omani Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries (MOAF) and within Oman's private sector to manage and utilize marine resources. The subproject, follow-on to an earlier fisheries sector effort,...Read more
Regional/Country focus:
Middle East and North Africa

Irrigation in Asia and the Near East in the 1990'S: Problems and Prospects

Publication date:
August 1, 1988
U.S. Agency for International Development
Food grain production has grown at percent per year In Asia and the Near East for the past two a sharp difference of decades. At the present time there is to what the future holds for agriculture in this opinion as region. This difference of opinion is closely linked to uncertainties associated...Read more

Role of Irrigation in the Agricultural Development of Asia

Publication date:
August 1, 1988
U.S. Agency for International Development
Throughout Asia, irrigation has been the lead input in growth of cereal yield. In the 13 Asian nations included for analysis, all of the countries appear to lie on virtually the same irrigation/ fertilizer/HYV production function. Many observers believe that improved efficiency of water use through...Read more
Regional/Country focus:
South East Asia

Farm Size and Efficiency in Irrigated Agriculture: the Case of the Zimbabwe Communal Areas

Publication date:
July 1, 1988
U.S. Agency for International Development
One of the principal socioeconomic issues in irrigation design is the size of holdings to be allocated to individual farm households. The major arguments for larger versus smaller plot sizes concern equity - allocating a given amount of irrigable land to larger or smaller numbers of poor farmers -...Read more
Regional/Country focus:
Zimbabwe
Sub-Saharan Africa

Small-Scale Water Pumping in Botswana Volume V: Other Pumping Technologies

Publication date:
June 1, 1988
U.S. Agency for International Development
The major objectives of this volume is to report on the evaluation of four pumping technologies (animal-drawn, biogas substitution, alternating-current electrical, and hand-operated pumps). The evaluation aims to provide as clear a picture as possible of the state of technology development,...Read more
Regional/Country focus:
Botswana
Sub-Saharan Africa

Psychocultural Adaptation and the Formation of Fishermen's Cooperatives in Ecuador

Publication date:
June 1, 1988
U.S. Agency for International Development
This paper looks at the psychocultural adaptation and the formation of fishermen's cooperatives in Ecuador. In most fisheries departments and development agencies around the world mariculture and marine capture fisheries are often lumped together in "the fishery sector," and the...Read more
Regional/Country focus:
Ecuador
Latin America and the Caribbean

Pond Dynamics/Collaborative Research Data Reports Volume Three: Indonesia Project

Publication date:
June 1, 1988
U.S. Agency for International Development
Data for various physical, chemical and biological parameters were collected in 1983-84 at the Babakan Fisheries Station of the Institute Pertanian Bogor, Indonesia, during the first experimental cycle of the Pond Dynamics/Aquaculture Collaborative Research Support Program (PD/A CRSP). The station...Read more
Regional/Country focus:
Indonesia
East Asia and Pacific

Improved Method for Fitting Gillnet Selectivity Curves to Predetermined Distributions

Publication date:
June 1, 1988
U.S. Agency for International Development
Monte Carlo optimization with constraints was used to estimate parameters of "skew-normal" selectivity curves for gillnets. Non-linear functions of mesh size were explored in addition to the linear ones described by Wulff (1986). This methodology can be used to estimate the parameters for...Read more
Regional/Country focus:
Philippines
East Asia and Pacific

Jess Report on Fisheries

Publication date:
June 1, 1988
U.S. Agency for International Development
This report details the results of a consultancy to assess the potential impacts of construction of the Baardheere Dam on downstream fish populations and fisheries development in the Jubba [Juba] Valley in Somalia. The goals of this fishery assessment were to describe the status of the fisheries...Read more
Regional/Country focus:
Somalia
Sub-Saharan Africa

Irrigation Management Research in Sri Lanka: a Review of Selected Literature

Publication date:
June 1, 1988
U.S. Agency for International Development
In support of A.I.D.'s Irrigation Systems Management Project in Sri Lanka, a select literature review of key irrigation issues was conducted. The review focused on literature since 1978 (the year of Chambers' influential study of water management in Sri Lanka) and describes progress made...Read more
Regional/Country focus:
Sri Lanka
South East Asia

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