The Productivity Commission released its final research report into ‘Rural Water Use and the Environment: The Role of … the efficient use of water, including for environmental purposes. The Commission suggests that governments should give … greater recognition to the integrated nature of water resources and use markets to more efficiently allocate water among …

Agriculture is the main water-using sector in Southern European Countries, such as Spain and Italy. Innovative … institutional solutions for reducing water use or increasing its efficiency are pursued by recent legislation concerning water, in … particular by the Water Framework Directive (WFD). Even if not explicitly considered by the directive, water markets may be seen …

If water is to be managed in a sustainable way, the planners and managers must know how much there is and how much of … needed to assess water availability and needs in micro watersheds. It shows how to prepare short-, medium-, and long …-term water investment and management plans on the basis of volume of surface and groundwater within a watershed and the needs of …

The second of three books in IFPRI's climate change in Africa series, East African Agriculture and Climate Change: A … contributors of East African Agriculture and Climate Change present plausible future scenarios that combine economic and … biophysical characteristics to explore the possible consequences for agriculture, food security, and resources management to 2050 …

, while 24,208 square kilometers is water. Malawi is a landlocked country bordering Tanzania, Mozambique, and Zambia and does …

percent of the country’s production is from small-scale agriculture. …

Agriculture in Africa south of the Sahara is becoming increasingly risky due to extreme climate variability. In recent … population that largely relies on rainfed agriculture, Zambia is vulnerable to the impacts of rainfall variability, which pose … understand and anticipate the likely impacts of climate change on agriculture and on vulnerable households in Zambia, given that …

Africa, in general, is vulnerable to climate change, mostly due to its dependence on agriculture. Mozambique is a prime … example. Agriculture is an important sector of the country’s economy, and, as indicated by the 2007 FAO country factsheet …