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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
environmental science
Growing more food with less water: How can revitalizing Asia's irrigation help?
Water Policy, Volume 14, No. 3, Year 2012
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Asia accounts for 70% of the world's irrigated area and is home to some of the oldest and largest irrigation schemes. While these irrigation schemes played an important role in ensuring food security for billions of people in the past, their current state of affairs leaves much to be desired. This paper takes forward the IWMI- FAO-ADB (Asian Development Bank) recommendation of a five-pronged approach for revitalizing Asia's irrigation and provides a region-specific road map for doing this. The underlying principle of these multiple strategies is the belief that the public institutions at the heart of irrigation management in Asia need to give up comfortable rigidity and engage with individual users' needs and the demands placed by larger societal changes. © IWA Publishing 2012.
Authors & Co-Authors
Mukherji, Aditi
Sri Lanka, Pelawatte
International Water Management Institute Iwmi
Facon, Thierry
Thailand, Bangkok
Food and Agriculture Organization Fao
de Fraiture, Charlotte
Burkina Faso, Ouagadougou
International Water Management Institute Iwmi
Molden, David James
Sri Lanka, Pelawatte
International Water Management Institute Iwmi
Chartres, Colin
Sri Lanka, Pelawatte
International Water Management Institute Iwmi
Statistics
Citations: 25
Authors: 5
Affiliations: 3
Identifiers
Doi:
10.2166/wp.2011.146
ISSN:
13667017
Research Areas
Environmental
Food Security