Who Engages in Water Scarcity Conflicts? A Field Experiment with Irrigators in Semi-Arid Africa

Who Engages in Water Scarcity Conflicts? A Field Experiment with Irrigators in Semi-arid Africa

Does water scarcity induce conflict? And who would engage in a water scarcity conflict? In this paper we look for evidence of the relation between water scarcity and conflictive behavior. With a framed field experiment conducted with smallholder irrigators from semi-arid Tanzania that replicates appropriation from an occasionally scarce common water flow we assess what type of water users is mo...

Soil water regime and water concervation efficiency in a non-irrigated semi-arid environment

Rangeland Ecohydrology, New Paradigm in Water Management of Arid and Semi-arid Lands

At the beginning of twenty-first century, the water crisis in the priority policy andmanagement is inside and outside of the country as principle thoroughly human, social,economic and political rulers of the country is considered abundant. The World Bank hasannounced that during 1960 and 2025, water resources in Middle East, from 3430 m3 for theeach person in year reach to 667 m3 because of pop...

Field‐based experimental water footprint study of sunflower growth in a semi‐arid region of China

BACKGROUND Field-scale changes in the water footprint during crop growth play an important role in formulating sustainable water utilisation strategies. This study aimed to explore field-scale variation in the water footprint of growing sunflowers in the western Jilin Province, China, during a 3-year field experiment. The goals of this study were to (1) determine the components of the 'blue' an...

Field assessment of surface water–groundwater connectivity in a semi-arid river basin (Murray–Darling, Australia)

S. Lamontagne,* A. R. Taylor, P. G. Cook, R. S. Crosbie, R. Brownbill, R.M. Williams and P. Brunner 1 Division of Land and Water, CSIRO, PMB 2, Glen Osmond, South Australia 5064, Australia 2 Water for a Healthy Country, National Research Flagship, CSIRO, Glen Osmond, South Australia, Australia 3 National Centre for Groundwater Research and Training, Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australi...