1. 01-12-1995 Mountain agriculture has attracted attention both for its complex adaptation to particular circumstances, and for its marginality and instability in a changing world. Irrigation plays a range of roles in mountain farming systems and their dynamics or change. Hill Irrigation examines the...
  2. Modern Irrigation Technologies reviews the experience of small holders with irrigation technologies under a range of diverse conditions in many different countries. Some people argue that modern irrigation technologies are the key to increased food production. However, projects introducing modern...
  3. 01-01-1972 This paper has two goals: evaluation and education. It is not, in the usual sense, a critical review paper, since no effort is made to assess the quality of the various research contributions cited. Rather, an attemp is made to stand back, gauge the broad accomplishments, trends, and gaps in the...
  4. This booklet was developed as a training aid for use in irrigation workshops conducted for small farmers and technicians in the Peruvian highlands through USAID. Much of the agriculture there takes place on stepp slopes, shallow soils and small farm plots. Irrigation extension personnel found the...
  5. 01-01-2003 Research Report # 70 28 pages, photos
  6. 01-01-2003 This study analysed the reasons for the sudden turn around in GWRDC's tubewell-transfer program and found that proactive policy changes under a new management helped the agency achieve rare management helped the agency achieve rare success in tubewell transfer, which had so far eluded them. 34...
  7. Report of the Expert Consultation of the Asian Network on Water Lifting Devices for Irrigation, Bangkok, Thailand 27 Sept. - 1 Oct. 1993 The Expert Consultaion of Asian Network on Water Lifting Devices for Irrigation concluded that in the Asia-Pacific region, "Strategy on investment for irriation...
  8. This report reviews several decades of global experience in transferring management of government-run irrigation systems to farmer associations or other nongovernement agencies in an attempt to apply the lessons of success to the African smallholder irrigation context.
  9. The major conclusions of the study were that the state tended to administer rather than manage irrigation schemes. In contrast farmers in all the schemeseasily engaged with operational aspects of irrigation management. Farmers, however, had their shortcomings particularly, in relation to...
  10. 01-01-2000 This report begins with a review of the different treadle pumps currently in use in Africa and the information available on their technical performance, with a view to trying to answer the question - Which is the best treadle pump? This is followed by reports prepared by national experts on the...