Understanding water delivery performance in a large-scale irrigation system in Peru

2005 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeroen Vos
2015 ◽  
Vol 64 (4) ◽  
pp. 479-490 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zeleke A. Dejen ◽  
Bart Schultz ◽  
Laszlo Hayde

2014 ◽  
Vol 140 (8) ◽  
pp. 04014027 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. K. Rowshon ◽  
M. A. Mojid ◽  
M. S. M. Amin ◽  
M. Azwan ◽  
A. M. Yazid

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pp. 1952-1963 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei Dong ◽  
Yunhao Liu ◽  
Yuan He ◽  
Tong Zhu ◽  
Chun Chen

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Upendra Gautam

Oriental philosophers have given top priority to food for orderly state affairs as well as personal wellbeing. In past, Nepal had a strong agricultural economy based on indigenous Farmer Managed Irrigation System (FMIS). State policy helped promote these systems. But contemporary Nepal opted for state control on irrigation water by building large scale public irrigation systems. In the last 43 years of planned development (1957-2002), the government has spent 70% of US$1.3 billion on these systems, covering 30% of the irrigated area in the country; the remaining 70% is with the FMIS. Despite the investment, these systems neither promoted themselves as an enterprise nor helped enhance agricultural productivity leading to social insecurity. This social insecurity is reflected in the country's increasing import of food, mass workforce exodus for employment abroad, and added socio-economic vulnerability due to climate change.Donor and government recommendations centered on (i) expansion of irrigated area, (ii) irrigation management transfer, and (iii) agriculture extension seem to have failed in Nepal. These failures asked for alternative institutional development solutions, whereas public irrigation systems are (i) localized to establish system's operational autonomy with ownership and governance, (ii) treated as a rich resource-base with water, land and labor, and (iii) recognized as cooperative enterprise of local stakeholders by law with authorities to enter into joint actions with relevant partners for promoting commercialization and environmental quality of irrigated agriculture.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/hn.v11i1.7223 Hydro Nepal Special Issue: Conference Proceedings 2012 pp.95-99


Author(s):  
Zulhadi Lalu

Irrigation facilities is one of the key factors in farming, especially for food crop farming, including rice. A smallscale irrigation system has an area of less than 500 hectares, and it is the backbone of family food security which in turn will lead to national food security. Damage irrigation system networks will threaten food production increase. In the future, irrigation infrastructure must be better managed so that agricultural sector can realize agricultural diversification, conserve wider irrigation system and maintain local wisdom and social capital in irrigation management. The objective of the paper is to analyze performance, problems and solutions of small irrigation systems in Indonesia, including small irrigation concepts and understanding, small irrigation performance and development, small irrigation development policies, factors affecting smallscale irrigation development, investments, and prospects. The paper also compares various performances, problems and solutions of small irrigation systems in other countries. Small scale irrigation performance is often better than large-scale irrigation, in the sense of water availability throughout the year and equitable water distribution for all service areas


2018 ◽  
Vol 64 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marija MARKOC ◽  
Milica COLOVIC ◽  
Gamal Abd Elnasser ALLAM ◽  
Shawkat BASEL ◽  
Qotada AL-ALI

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