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Water for Food, Water for Life:  A Comprehensive Assessment of Water Management is available

The Comprehensive Assessment of Water Management in Agriculture critically evaluates the benefits, costs, and impacts of the past 50 years of water development, the water management challenges communities are facing today, and solutions people have developed. The results will enable better investment and management decisions in water and agriculture in the near future and over the next 50 years. The assessment is produced by a broad partnership of practitioners, researchers and policy makers.

Part I: Setting the Scene • Introduction • Conceptual Framework
Part II: Trends and Scenarios • Benefits, Costs and Challenges of Managing Water for Agriculture • Investment Options for the Future
Part III: Integrating Issues • Water for Food to Fight Poverty • Policy and Institutional Reform Processes for Sustainable Agricultural Water Management • Agriculture, Water and Ecosystems • Pathways to Improving Water Productivity
Part IV: Thematic Chapters • Managing Water in Rainfed Agriculture • Re-inventing Irrigation • Groundwater Use in Agriculture: A Global Assessment of Scale and Significance for Food, Livelihoods and Nature • Agricultural Use of Marginal-quality Water Resources Presents Opportunities and Challenges • Inland Fisheries, Aquaculture and Water Productivity • Integrating Water and Livestock Development • Rice: Feeding the Billions While Providing Unique Ecosystem Services • Conserving Land—Protecting Water • River Basin Development and Management • References, Index

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• 1 Setting the scene (PDF 656KB)
  Authors: Jean-Marc Faurès, C. Max Finlayson, Habiba Gitay, David Molden, Lisa Schipper, and Domitille Vallée
• 2 Trends in water and agricultural development (PDF 3MB)
  Lead authors: David Molden, Karen Frenken, Randolph Barker, Charlotte de Fraiture, Bancy Mati, Mark Svendsen, Claudia Sadoff, C. Max Finlayson
• 3 Looking ahead to 2050: scenarios of alternative investment approaches (PDF 3MB)
  Coordinating lead authors: Charlotte de Fraiture and Dennis Wichelns
  Lead authors: Johan Rockström and Eric Kemp-Benedict
• 4 Reversing the flow: agricultural water management pathways for poverty reduction (PDF 2.5MB)
  Coordinating lead authors: Gina E. Castillo and Regassa E. Namara
  Lead authors: Helle Munk Ravnborg, Munir A. Hanjra, Laurence Smith, and Maliha H. Hussein
• 5 Policy and institutional reform: the art of the possible (PDF 1.5MB)
  Coordinating lead author: Douglas J. Merrey
  Lead authors: Ruth Meinzen-Dick, Peter P. Mollinga, and Eiman Karar
• 6 Agriculture, water, and ecosystems: avoiding the costs of going too far (PDF 3.4MB)
  Coordinating lead authors: Malin Falkenmark, C. Max Finlayson, and Line J. Gordon
• 7 Pathways for increasing agricultural water productivity (PDF 2MB)
  Coordinating lead authors: David Molden and Theib Y. Oweis
  Lead authors: Pasquale Steduto, Jacob. W. Kijne, Munir A. Hanjra, Prem S. Bindraban
• 8 Managing water in rainfed agriculture (PDF 2MB)
  Coordinating lead author: Johan Rockström
  Lead authors: Nuhu Hatibu, Theib Y. Oweis, and Suhas Wani
• 9 Reinventing irrigation (PDF 3.2MB)
  Coordinating lead author: Jean-Marc Faurès
  Lead authors: Mark Svendsen and Hugh Turral
• 10 Groundwater: a global assessment of scale and significance (PDF 1.6MB)
  Coordinating lead author: Tushaar Shah
  Lead authors: Jacob Burke and Karen Villholth
• 11 Agricultural use of marginal-quality water—opportunities and challenges (PDF 1.5MB)
  Coordinating lead author: Manzoor Qadir
  Lead authors: Dennis Wichelns, Liqa Raschid-Sally, Paramjit Singh Minhas, Pay Drechsel, Akiça Bahri, and Peter McCornick
• 12 Inland fisheries and aquaculture (1.6MB)
  Coordinating lead author: Patrick Dugan
  Lead authors: Vasu V. Sugunan, Robin L. Welcomme, Christophe Béné, Randall E. Brummett, and Malcolm C.M. Beveridge
• 13 Water and livestock for human development (PDF 1.8MB)
  Coordinating lead author: Don Peden
  Lead authors: Girma Tadesse and A.K. Misra
• 14 Rice: feeding the billions (PDF 1.7MB)
  Coordinating lead author: Bas Bouman
  Lead authors: Randolph Barker, Elizabeth Humphreys, and To Phuc Tuong
• 15 Conserving land—protecting water (PDF 1.7MB)
  Coordinating lead author: Deborah Bossio
  Lead authors: William Critchley, Kim Geheb, Godert van Lynden, and Bancy Mati
• 16 River basin development and management (PDF 2.7MB)
  Coordinating lead author: François Molle
  Lead authors: Philippus Wester and Phil Hirsch

Asian Irrigation Forum

Asian Irrigation Forum

ASIAN IRRIGATION FORUM 2012 -Manila, Philippines : 11 April 2012 - 13 April 2012

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