Responding to rainfall variability has always been one of the most critical risks facing farmers. It is also an integral part of the job of water managers, whether it be designing interventions for flood management, improving the reliability of water supply for irrigation or advising on prioritie...
Bird, Jeremy
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Roy, Srabani
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Shah, Tushaar
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Aggarwal, Pramod K.
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Smakhtin, Vladimir U.
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Amarnath, Giriraj
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Amarasinghe, Upali A.
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Pavelic, Paul
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McCornick, Peter G.
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[Adapting to climate variability and change in India]
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Adapting to climate variability and change in India
Shah, Tushaar
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Pradhan, P.
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Rasul, G.
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[Water challenges of the Ganges Basin: an agenda for accelerated reform]
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Water challenges of the Ganges Basin: an agenda for accelerated reform
This report presents a discussion among IWMI?s Asian researchers on the strategy for policy research on canal irrigation in India. Poor service delivery, persistence of head-tail inequity, growing gap between irrigation potential created and utilized, shrinking of command area despite growing inv...
Shah, Tushaar
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Anwar, Arif A.
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Amarasinghe, Upali A.
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Hoanh, Chu Thai
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Reddy, Junna Mohan
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Molle, Francois
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MMukherji, Aditi
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Prathapar, Sanmugam A.
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Suhardiman, Diana
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Qureshi, Asad Sarwar
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Wegerich, Kai
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[Canal irrigation conundrum: applying contingency theory to irrigation system management in India.]
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Canal irrigation conundrum: applying contingency theory to irrigation system management in India.
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 area under irrigation. In terms of the global area of irrigation (320 Mha...
Lankford, B.A.
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Makin, Ian W.
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Matthews, Nathaniel
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McCornick, Peter G.
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Noble, A.D.
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Shah, Tushaar
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[A compact to revitalise large-scale irrigation systems using a leadership-partnership-ownership 'Theory of Change']
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A compact to revitalise large-scale irrigation systems using a leadership-partnership-ownership 'Theory of Change'
This Highlight reports on the trip, which included a field visit to newly-modernized Shijin irrigation system in Hebei province. If the Shijin system is any guide, three elements of China?s irrigation modernization strategy are: [a] total rehabilitation of old, earthen systems into modern, lined ...
Shah, Tushaar
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Mohatadulla, Khalid
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Qureshi, Asad Sarwar
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[Irrigation modernization: Chinese style - Report on a field visit to Shijin Irrigation System, Hebei Province [China]]
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Irrigation modernization: Chinese style - Report on a field visit to Shijin Irrigation System, Hebei Province [China]
Since independence, India has emerged as the world’s largest groundwater economy, with annual groundwater use increasing from less than 50 BCM in the 1950s to over 230 BCM today. While this groundwater boom has been the bedrock of India’s agricultural growth, it has also created formidable challe...