sustainability index increases significantly by improving irrigation efficiency and changing crop patterns at the basin. Also, the …

for drinking, sanitation, and agriculture. Water conservation can be a means to mitigate the economic damages associated … efforts have focused on farm-level irrigation efficiency. However, since over one-third of water applied for agricultural … irrigation in the U.S. comes from off-farm supplies, improvements in delivery and conveyance efficiency also have the potential …

Between June 24 and September 13, 2009 the Agriculture Commission of the Romanian Parliament conducted an inquiry into … lack of financial resources, or due to a low interest on the part of the user, or pure and simple some irrigation works in … some areas have proven to be technically and economically unviable. Among the causes of not realizing the irrigation …

Weather experts around the world are foreseeing a strong El Niño in 2014. In India, these developments are feared to … the 1980s, all the six droughts faced by India were in El Niño years but not all El Niño years led to drought situations … timing of El Niño developments in a year and its relation with monsoon rains. We construct an India specific El Niño (ISEL …

use in the PRC and 80% in India. Understanding both the demand and supply sides of water management in agriculture is …Water shortage is one of the major environmental challenges in emerging Asian economies such as India and the People … scarce and critical resource in these nations. Agriculture, as the largest water-consuming sector, accounts for 64% of water …

Southern Sudan population has chosen secession in January 2011 referendum and independence shall be declared next July … Southern Sudan. The current issue on land rights, land ownership have to be settled once and for all which may in turn … encourage the investors to come to Southern Sudan. Most important is the improvement of the available credit to small …

therefore not sufficient to change the bad performance of agriculture of the last decades …