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Irrigation has always played a central role in the agrarian economy of Asia, from supporting famed hydraulic civilizations in the ancient past to spearheading Green Revolution in the 1960s and 1970s,. Asia accounts for 70% of the world?s irrigated area and is home to some of the oldest and larges...
Water resources are already very scarce. With further demand from population growth, dietary changes, biofuel production, urbanisation and climate change, it will be extremely difficult to find enough supply to enable an increase in global food production by 70 per cent. There are, however, poten...
Growing global population and a combination of dietary change, biofuels production, urban and industrial water demand and climate change will see food crises becoming more frequent in the next 40 years. Food and feed production must double to feed 9.1 billion people in 2050. This will require usi...
The International Water Management Institute (IWMI) was established in Sri Lanka by the Ford Foundation and others in the mid-1980s. Today, IWMI works in about 20 countries. Colin Chartres reflected on the history of IWMI's work and described important studies that have advanced the understanding...
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