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Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchai Yojana: Enhancing Impact through Demand Driven Innovations
The Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Government of India, has launched the Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchai Yojana
(PMKSY) to address India’s key agricultural challenges in the 21st century i.e., to reduce poverty ...
Assessing the Financial and Economic Viability of Water User Associations and Canal Management Organizations in Ferghana Valley countries of Central Asia
The financial viability of a water user association is fundamentally dependent on the
financial viability of the irrigated agriculture it supports. The mission of a water user
association might be described as securing a ...
Gender, Tenurial niches in the Kandeu informal irrigation scheme of Malawi and their implications for drought mitigation
The presentation addresses the issue of understanding the gendered tenurial niches in the informal irrigation in the Kandeu informal irrigation scheme of Malawi and
their implications for drought mitigation, presented by ...
Performance evaluation of ground water management instruments: The case of irrigation sector in Tunisia
Around 27% of aquifers in Tunisia are being overexploited. Groundwater extractions is mainly for the irrigation sector, where more than 40% of the water used for irrigation comes from GW sources. The objective of this study ...
Estimating water use efficiency under conventional and conservation soil tillage practices at Gairatdin farm in Karayuziak district of Karakalpakistan
The studies on “Water use efficiency under conventional and conservation soil tillage” has been conducted in 2015 in Karayuziak district of Karakalpakstan jointly, by ICARDA and IWMI. The report summarizes the main ...
Water management
Agriculture is the largest user of the world's freshwater resources, consuming 70% of the available supply (UNW-DPAC 2011). As the world's population rises and consumes more food, and industries as well as urban developments ...
A Compact to Revitalise Large-Scale Irrigation Systems Using a Leadership-Partnership-Ownership 'Theory of Change'
In countries with transitional economies such as those found in South Asia, large-scale irrigation
systems (LSIS) with a history of public ownership account for about 115 million ha (Mha) or approximately 45% of
their total ...
Gendered Land Tenure and Water infrastructure in the Chinyanja triangle: The case of Chauluka and Kamwaza villages in Kandeu, Ntcheu, Malawi
According to the Malawi Land Act of 1965, three categories of land tenure exist in the country. These are private, public and customary land. Private land is all land held under a freehold title, a leasehold title or land ...
Understanding the gendered tenurial niches in the informal irrigation in the Kandeu, Malawi
Understanding the gendered tenurial niches in the informal irrigation in the Kandeu, Malawi
Spatial big-data analytics for agricultural intensification and crop diversification in rice fallows
Supply-demand gap of agricultural commodities continues to rise while total arable land area is
not expected to increase significantly in India. Future increases in agricultural production will be
contingent upon agricultural ...