Mechanically Reclaiming Abandoned Saline Soils

Mechanically Reclaiming Abandoned Saline Soils
Author: Sanmugam Ahembaranathan Prathapar
Publisher: IWMI
Total Pages: 28
Release: 1999
Genre: Groundwater
ISBN: 9290902027

Tests the hypothesis that timely surface cultivation before monsoon or winter rains in semiarid and arid areas will assist reclamation of abandoned saline soils. The effect of surface cultivation, monsoon rains, depth to water table, and ground water salinity on secondary salinity are evaluated using a numerical model, SWAP93.

Modernization Using the Structured System Design of the Bhadra Reservoir Project, India

Modernization Using the Structured System Design of the Bhadra Reservoir Project, India
Author: R. Sakthivadivel
Publisher: IWMI
Total Pages: 33
Release: 1999
Genre: Irrigation efficiency
ISBN: 9290903856

Evaluates the performance of the Bhadra Reservoir Project-before, during, and after the introduction of modernization with structured system design. Analysis focuses on water management, agricultural productivity, and farmer participation and perception. Identifies the absence of a continuing support mechanism and lack of farmer participation as the major causes for the project's decline.

Modernizing Irrigation Operations

Modernizing Irrigation Operations
Author: D. Renault
Publisher: IWMI
Total Pages: 29
Release: 1999
Genre: Irrigation
ISBN: 9290903864

Background ans constraints in water service; Case study of Kirindi Oya irrigation settlement Project Sri Lanka.

Developments in Soil Salinity Assessment and Reclamation

Developments in Soil Salinity Assessment and Reclamation
Author: Shabbir A. Shahid
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 827
Release: 2013-01-15
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 9400756844

The papers assembled here cover topics such as technological advances in soil salinity mapping and monitoring, management and reclamation of salt-affected soils, use of marginal quality water for crop production, salt-tolerance mechanisms in plants, biosaline agriculture and agroforestry, microbiological interventions for marginal soils, opportunities and challenges in using marginal waters, and soil and water management in irrigated agriculture.

Farmer-based Financing of Operations in the Niger Valley Irrigation Schemes

Farmer-based Financing of Operations in the Niger Valley Irrigation Schemes
Author: Charles L. Abernethy
Publisher: IWMI
Total Pages: 45
Release: 2000
Genre: Associations, institutions, etc
ISBN: 929090397X

This report deals with some experiences of a set of irrigation systems situated in the Republic of Niger, along both banks of the Niger River. All these systems draw water from the river through low-lift, electrically powered pumping stations, which have been installed by the Government of Niger over the past 30 years. Irrigation of this kind is not a tradition in Niger. The introduction of this technology caused considerable changes in the way of life of local communities.

An Assessment of the Small-Scale Irrigation Management Turnover Program in Indonesia

An Assessment of the Small-Scale Irrigation Management Turnover Program in Indonesia
Author: Douglas L. Vermillion
Publisher: IWMI
Total Pages: 44
Release: 2000
Genre: Agriculture
ISBN: 9290903929

Examines the extent to which the Government of Indonesia's aspirations were realized through turnover program adopted in 1987. The impacts of management turnover on irrigation management and irrigated agriculture in selected systems in West and Central Java are analyzed. This study is part of a comparative research program to examine the impacts of irrigation management transfer in several countries using a common methodology.

Institutional Change and Shared Management of Water Resources in Large Canal Systems

Institutional Change and Shared Management of Water Resources in Large Canal Systems
Author: D. J. Bandaragoda
Publisher: IWMI
Total Pages: 42
Release: 1999
Genre: Irrigation
ISBN: 9290903872

This report is based on the results of an action research program in pakistan conducted by the International Water Managament Institute (IWMI). An analysis of empirical data is presented in the light of existing theoretical kmowledge on collective action for natural resources management. the report also highlights the current constraints associated with a wider application of some of these findings, which reflect the difficulties in pursuing large-scale institutional reforms in the rural sector of developing coutries. finally, the report raises some key research issues that need to be explored further.

More Crop Per Drop

More Crop Per Drop
Author: Meredith Giordano
Publisher: IWA Publishing
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2007-01-01
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1843391120

This volume is an analytical summary and a critical synthesis of research at the International Water Management Institute over the past decade under its evolving research paradigm known popularly as 'more crop per drop'. The research synthesized here covers the full range of issues falling in the larger canvas of water-food-health-environment interface. Besides its immediate role in sharing knowledge with the research, donor, and policy communities, this volume also has a larger purpose of promoting a new way of looking at the water issues within the broader development context of food, livelihood, health and environmental challenges. More crop per drop: Revisiting a research paradigm contrasts the acquired wisdom and fresh thinking on some of the most challenging water issues of our times. It describes new tools, approaches, and methodologies and also illustrates them with practical application both from a global perspective and within the local and regional contexts of Asia and Africa. Since this volume brings together all major research works of IWMI, including an almost exhaustive list of citations, in one single set of pages, it is very valuable not only as a reference material for researchers and students but also as a policy tool for decision-makers and development agencies.