Nepal: Food Security, a Localized Institutional Irrigation Perspective on Public Irrigation Systems

Evaluation of Irrigation Performance in Localized Irrigation Systems of Semiarid Regions

In the structure of the Integral Irrigation Advisory Service (Servicio Integral de Asesoramiento al Regante, SIAR) of Castilla-La Mancha, with the principal objective of helping farmers to get a efficient and rational use of means of production, and specially water, fertilizers and energy, providing a suit scientific and technical support to optimise management, it is fundamental to broach the ...

Farmer Managed Irrigation Systems in the Chitwan Valley of Nepal

Despite many valuable lessons that have been learnt regarding resource and resource user attributes there are some relationships that have yet to be understood. One such confounding issue has been the impact of heterogeneity among the users of a communitybased natural resource. Traditional commons research has mostly assumed the prevalence of homogeneity among resource users, however, it is kno...

Optimizing overhead irrigation systems

Centre Pivots and Lateral Moves in the Australian Cotton Industry Centre Pivots and Lateral Moves (CP&LMs) or overhead irrigation systems have been successfully installed in every cotton growing district in Australia. This industry now has the capacity to broaden the uptake of this irrigation technology, and benefit from its simplicity and improved water use efficiency while moving away from fa...

A Basinwide Perspective on Entrainment of Fish in Irrigation Canals

—Entrainment in irrigation canals has been considered a major source of mortality for some fish populations. However, the magnitude of fish loss from entrainment is usually not evaluated from a basinwide perspective, thus precluding an assessment of populationlevel consequences. We incorporated such a perspective in evaluating entrainment losses of Bonneville cutthroat trout Oncorhynchus clarki...

Using Irrigation to Manage Weeds: A Focus on Drip Irrigation