Irrigation water management is crucial for agricultural production and livelihood security in many regions and countries throughout the world. Over the past decades, controversial and conflictladen water-allocation issues among competing municipal, industrial and agricultural interests have raised increasing concerns. Particularly, growing population, varying natural conditions and shrinking wa...

Increasing competition for water across sectors increases the importance of the river basin as the appropriate unit of analysis to address the challenges facing water resources management; and modeling at this scale can provide essential information for policymakers in their resource allocation decisions. This paper introduces an integrated economic–hydrologic modeling framework that accounts f...

Meeting food and livelihood security needs in developing countries will require the conservation and enhancement of natural resources that contribute to agricultural production. Chief among the resources to be sustainably managed are soils and forests. Failure to protect and improve soils will lead to dramatic decreases in domestic agricultural production and consequent dependence on imported f...

In recent years, farming section of South Khorasan Province faces different limitations such as increasing shortage of water resources and continuous reduction of weather showers.Considering consecutive droughts and water crisis in agricultural plain of the province, it is necessary to use water resources optimally and increase productivity of water shortage input. Comparison of water productiv...

water is an important element and plays a vital role in the formation and survival of natural, economical and social systems in dry climates. thus, there is a significant necessity to present an optimal method for utilization of water resources in these regions. constructing dams has been a prevalent method for exploitation of water shed resources for a long time which has positive and negative...

An agricultural water conservation policy prevalent worldwide encourages producers to improve on-farm irrigation efficiency. Contrary to intention, increasing empirical evidence reveals that this policy may set an ‘irrigation efficiency trap’ that worsens water crises by reducing water supplies and jeopardizing economic growth. We derive a pair of testable hydrologic-economic conditions require...

Ahmed Douaik1, Marc van Meirvenne2 and Tibor Tóth3,4 1Research Unit on Environment and Conservation of Natural Resources, National Institute of Agricultural Research (INRA), Rabat, 2Department of Soil Management, Ghent University, Ghent, 3Department of Soil Science, Research Institute for Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry, Budapest, 4Rural, Water and Ecosystem Resources Unit, Institute fo...