Multiple Uses Of Water Services In Large Irrigation Systems

Author : D. Renault,Robina Wahaj,Stef Smits
Publisher : FAO Irrigation and Drainage Pa
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9251078874

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Multiple Uses of Water Services in Large Irrigation Systems by D. Renault,Robina Wahaj,Stef Smits Pdf

The Mapping Systems and Services for Multiple Uses of Water Services (MASSMUS) methodology is a special module that addresses multiple uses of water. It is part of Mapping Systems and Services for Canal Operation Techniques (MASSCOTE), developed by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), it has been in use since 2000 for the auditing of medium to large irrigation systems, and for planning modernization of their operation and management.

Author : Daniel Renault,Robina Wahaj,Stef Smits
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Irrigation
ISBN : 9251078882

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Multiple Uses of Water Services in Large Irrigation Systems by Daniel Renault,Robina Wahaj,Stef Smits Pdf

"This publication expresses the rationale for multiple use of water services for large irrigation systems and demonstrates how managers can optimize, rather than simply tolerate, multiple uses. It also illustrates how consideration and appropriate management of multiple uses can benefit an irrigation system by improving performance and enhancing sustainability. The aim is to provide readers - irrigation managers and designers - with guidelines, steps to follow and leads that will allow them to perform multiple uses or services investigations in their own irrigation systems unearthing all services, the obvious and the hidden, and to document them using local data and surveys"--Publisher's description.

Author : Malabo Montpellier Panel
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Water-Wise: Smart irrigation strategies for Africa by Malabo Montpellier Panel Pdf

The report begins with an overview of the challenges on agricultural systems to make more food available and accessible and lays out the potential of irrigation to make agriculture more productive, efficient and profitable for smallholder farmers. A discussion on the potential to expand irrigation across Africa and barriers to uptake including an analysis of the inherent risks and desired outcomes of irrigation forms the next section. The report reviews the traditional and new, innovative smallscale and large-scale irrigation approaches and technologies that have been implemented in Africa, followed by an analysis of the experiences of six African countries that have been particularly innovative and successful in terms of their institutional and policy design for irrigation. The report closes by drawing some key lessons and offering nine recommendations for actions by African governments and the private sector.

Author : Ken Conca,Erika Weinthal
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780199335091

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The Oxford Handbook of Water Politics and Policy by Ken Conca,Erika Weinthal Pdf

Water is a basic human need and a scarce commodity with increasing value to farmers, industries, and cities in an urbanizing world. It is unpredictable in supply and quality, difficult to contain or direct, and notoriously difficult to manage well. Several trends -- climate change, the endurance of widespread global water poverty, intensifying competition among rival uses and users, and the vulnerability of critical freshwater ecosystems -- combine to intensify the challenges of governing water wisely, fairly, and efficiently. The twenty-seven chapters in The Oxford Handbook of Water Politics and Policy address such issues over the course of seven thematic sections. These themes reflect familiar frameworks in the water policy world, including water, poverty, and health; water and nature; and water equity and justice. Other sections look at emergent and contentious policy arenas, including the water/energy/food nexus and management of uncertainty in water supply, or connect well-established strands in new ways, including sections on water tools (water price and value, supply and demand, privatization, corporate responsibility) and issues surrounding transboundary waters. This volume conceives of water as a global issue, and gathers a diverse group of leading scholars of water politics and policy.

Author : Barbara C. P. Koppen,Stef Smits,Patrick Moriarty,Frist Penning de Vries,Monique Mikhail,Eline Boelee
Publisher : IWMI
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Drinking water
ISBN : 9789066870697

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Climbing the Water Ladder by Barbara C. P. Koppen,Stef Smits,Patrick Moriarty,Frist Penning de Vries,Monique Mikhail,Eline Boelee Pdf

Local government can be the pivot to make this happen.

Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-03
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789251311462

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An ecosystem approach to promote the integration and coexistence of fisheries within irrigation systems by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Pdf

This technical document has been developed in recognition of the increasingly diverse demands for water from irrigation systems and the need to introduce more holistic land uses into conventional irrigation management. Despite historical precedents and efforts in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, the potential for the integration of fish production (capture fisheries and aquaculture) and irrigation systems has yet to be fully realized. Capturing these underutilized opportunities for the integration of fisheries and aquaculture could significantly increase local economies, food security, household incomes and livelihood diversity within irrigated agriculture systems. To re-examine the potential of fisheries in irrigation systems, the concept of the extended command area (ECA) is used, expanding the conventional definition of an agriculture irrigation command area. The reason for this expanded definition is because all elements of an irrigation system, from upstream dam storage to downstream drainage areas, offer opportunities for increasing fish production. Many of these opportunities may be realized at no additional cost to the main irrigated crop. This document provides an introduction to the ways fisheries and aquaculture already co-exist with irrigation and explores the threats and opportunities that arise from this. A key concept for sustaining and enhancing inland capture fisheries is “connectivity”– a fundamental basis for ensuring adequate environmental conditions to allow fish to flourish within an aquatic ecosystem such as a river, lake, or wetland. Improving connectivity within an ECA can restore elements of ecological services that may have been compromised or degraded through irrigation, water management or through other rural infrastructure development such as road construction. Practical application of the integration of fisheries and irrigation systems is explored through the use of the Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries (EAF) in the context of irrigation systems. The proposed process links the development of an EAF management plan for fisheries to irrigation system operation and is given the acronym EAFm-i. A key part of this linkage is an assessment of water resources in the system and the management of water for delivery to fisheries. Additional tools to support the EAFm-i process are also described. Although the experience and approach are drawn largely from irrigation systems and inland capture fisheries in Southeast Asia, the application of the ECA concept and approach will be relevant to any irrigation or water management system where there is potential for the closer integration and harmonization of fisheries and irrigation systems and where water users are interested in realizing this potential. This short paper is intended to encourage fisheries and irrigation specialists to engage in greater dialogue and cooperation over the integration of fisheries into irrigation planning and to support piloting of an EAFm-i process, which can be the basis for further development.

Author : van Koppen, Barbara, Moriarty, P., Boelee, Eline
Publisher : IWMI
Page : 53 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Drinking water
ISBN : 9789290906278

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Multiple-use water services to advance the millennium development goals by van Koppen, Barbara, Moriarty, P., Boelee, Eline Pdf

This research report presents the findings of the first phase of the action-research project "Models for implementing multiple-use water supply systems for enhanced land and water productivity, rural livelihoods and gender equity." Multipleuse water services, or "mus" in short, is a participatory, integrated and poverty-reduction focused approach in poor rural and peri-urban areas, which takes people's multiple water needs as a starting point for providing integrated services, moving beyond the conventional sectoral barriers of the domestic and productive sectors.

Author : Daniel Renault,Thierry Facon,Robina Wahaj,Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9251057168

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Modernizing Irrigation Management by Daniel Renault,Thierry Facon,Robina Wahaj,Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Pdf

This publication describes the MASSCOTE methodology, illustrated by several applications in Asia. MASSCOTE is a comprehensive methodology for analysing the modernization of canal operation. The aim is to enable experts to work together with users in determining improved processes for cost-effective service-oriented management. It is based on previous tools and approaches widely used in Asia by FAO in its modernization training programme (rapid appraisal procedures and benchmarking). From diagnosis through the formulation of operational units and the planning of a service (based on the vision agreed upon with the users), MASSCOTE entails a systematic, ten-step, mapping exercise. The accompanying CD-ROMs contain the full document in English, excerpts in French, a draft version in Arabic and Chinese, training presentations and material, and a number of documents and references on irrigation system operation and management [System requirements: PC with Intel Pentium(r) processor and Microsoft(r)Windows 95/98/200/Me/NT/XP; 256 MB of RAM; 50 MB of available hard-disk space; SuperVGA monitor; 256 colours at 1024x768; Adobe Acrobat(r) Reader (not included on CD-ROM)]

Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789251311318

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Guidelines on irrigation investment projects by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Pdf

Irrigation has been and will continue to be an agricultural and rural investment priority. Development of the irrigation sector faces multiple challenges, including water scarcity and degradation, competition over shared resources, and the impact of climate change. Innovations are needed to address these challenges, as well as emerging needs, and to promote productive, equitable and sustainable water management. These guidelines, produced by an inter-agency team, highlight experiences and lessons learned from global irrigation investment operations. They introduce innovative approaches, tools and references, and provide practical guidance on how to incorporate or apply them at each stage of the investment project cycle. The guidelines will be a useful resource for national and international professionals involved in irrigation investment operations.

Author : Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
Publisher : United Nations
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789210041546

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Guidelines on Irrigation Investment Projects by Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Pdf

Irrigation has been and will continue to be an agricultural and rural investment priority. Development of the irrigation sector faces multiple challenges, including water scarcity and degradation, competition over shared resources, and the impact of climate change. Innovations are needed to address these challenges, as well as emerging needs, and to promote productive, equitable and sustainable water management. These guidelines, produced by an inter-agency team, highlight experiences and lessons learned from global irrigation investment operations. They introduce innovative approaches, tools and references, and provide practical guidance on how to incorporate or apply them at each stage of the investment project cycle. The guidelines will be a useful resource for national and international professionals involved in irrigation investment operations.

Author : Eiman Karar
Publisher : Springer
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319433509

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Freshwater Governance for the 21st Century by Eiman Karar Pdf

The objective of this book is to broadly illustrate the key aspects of water governance, mapping the spectrum of decision-making from techno-centric and eco-centric approaches, to hybrid concepts and people-centric approaches. Topics covered include the challenges for water-governance models, the polycentric model, the integration challenge, water in the decision-making hierarchy, and the rise of water-sensitive design, while also taking into account interdependencies between stakeholders, as well as the issue of scale. The book’s content is presented in an integrated and comprehensive format, building on detailed case studies from around the world and the authors’ working experiences in the water sector. Combining essential insights with accessible, non-technical language, it offers a valuable resource for academics, technicians and policy-makers alike.

Author : International Water Management Institute (IWMI)
Publisher : IWMI
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789290909002

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IWMI Gender and Inclusion Strategy 2020-2023 by International Water Management Institute (IWMI) Pdf

Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 47 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789251380642

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Revaluing multiple-use water services for food and water security by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Pdf

Water is an indispensable resource that lies at the heart of sustenance and prosperity for communities worldwide. In low- and middle-income countries, households and communities have long relied on a single water source to fulfil a multitude of needs, encompassing drinking, washing, cooking, livestock raising, and irrigation. Traditional water supply systems have served as hydraulic structures for multiple purposes, catering to diverse water requirements. As countries progressed towards modernization, the emphasis shifted towards single-use water infrastructure, inadvertently neglecting the multifaceted nature of water demands that contribute to people's livelihoods. In developing countries, water resources management centered around large-scale irrigation and water development projects to spur economic growth. Infrastructure, institutions, policies, and practices were organized around single-use sectors. Consequently, prevailing models of water modernization unintentionally disregarded or even discouraged the acknowledgement of multiple uses.

Author : M. Dinesh Kumar,M. V. K. Sivamohan,Nitin Bassi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780415624077

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Water Management, Food Security and Sustainable Agriculture in Developing Economies by M. Dinesh Kumar,M. V. K. Sivamohan,Nitin Bassi Pdf

India is a fast developing economy whose natural resource base, comprising land and water supporting agricultural production, are not only under enormous stress, but also complex and not amenable to a uniform strategy. This book addresses strategies for food security and sustainable agriculture in India, including lessons to be learned in other developing economies across the world.

Author : UNESCO World Water Assessment Programme
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789231004346

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The United Nations World Water Development Report by UNESCO World Water Assessment Programme Pdf

Water is a finite and non-substitutable resource. As the foundation of life, societies and economies, it carries multiple values and benefits. But unlike most other natural resources, it has proven extremely difficult to determine its true 'value'. The 2021 edition of the United Nations World Water Development Report, titled "Valuing Water" assesses the current status of and challenges to the valuation of water across different sectors and perspectives and identifies ways in which valuation can be promoted as a tool to help improve its management and achieve global sustainable development.