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A GIS-based Approach for Assessing Water Harvesting Suitability in a Badia Benchmark Watershed in Jordan
In arid and semi-arid areas water harvesting techniques can be used to capture and efficiently utilize rainwater runoff to maintain productive and sustainable agro-pastoral systems. With water resources being depleted by ...
Limited Irrigation of Maize and Cotton in Semi-arid Eastern Mediterranean – Part II: Water Use and Stress
In the semi-arid eastern Mediterranean region, crop production occurs under water stress conditions, an expanding situation due to increasing shortages of water. Simple tools and methods are needed to quantify crop water ...
Selection and Characterization of Badia Watershed Research Sites
This report describes the use of improved methodologies developed for identifying water-harvesting sites. It also provides general guidelines for determining site potential in relation to various parameters. The approach ...
Profitability of drip irrigation investment in almond plantations in south-east Anatolia
This presentation is given for the International Symposium on Irrigation Modernization: Constraints and Solutions. 28-31 March, 2006 Damascus Syria
Rainwater management for the rural poor
About 80% of the world agricultural land is rainfed producing over 60 % of the world food.
NENA region is not and exception where most of the poor live in rural rainfed areas. This
presentation focuses on two agro ecosystems ...