Beyond 'More Crop per Drop' : Evolving Thinking on Agricultural Water Productivity
This report aims to provide key highlights from two decades of IWMI research and the broader irrigation literature on agricultural water productivity, with an emphasis on the evolution and application of the concept, highlighting its contributions...
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| Format: | Report |
| Language: | English en_US |
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Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute, and Washington, DC: World Bank
2017
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/716711491456318468/Beyond-more-crop-per-drop-evolving-thinking-on-agricultural-water-productivity-IWMI-research-report-169 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/26381 |
| Summary: | This report aims to provide key
highlights from two decades of IWMI research and the broader
irrigation literature on agricultural water productivity,
with an emphasis on the evolution and application of the
concept, highlighting its contributions and limitations
while identifying opportunities for further refinements in
the way it is understood and applied. Chapter two describes
the origins of the concept of agricultural water
productivity and its methodological developments. Chapter
three illustrates the different ways the concept has been
operationalized in applied research, offers a description of
the pathways—with their associated interventions, for
improving water productivity, and discusses the
contributions to broader development objectives. Based on
these, and considering the broader literature, Chapter four
presents a set of key lessons and insights from two decades
of research on water productivity. Chapter five concludes by
highlighting how a focus on agricultural water productivity
has brought greater attention to critical water scarcity and
management issues. Important strategic opportunities remain,
however, for continued improvements in technologies and
management practices, data sources, and interdisciplinary
research to develop and apply more comprehensive approaches
to address water scarcity concerns and, ultimately, make
progress towards broader development objectives. |
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