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   The energy-irrigation nexus

   Documents de politique et mémoires

   décembre, 2003

   gestion des eaux

   Electricity subsidies for farmers are an expensive legacy of past development policies. The result is overuse of both energy and water in groundwater-irrigated agriculture?threatening the financial viability of the power sector and the future of the groundwater resource itself, along with the livelihoods of the millions who depend on it. The most popular solution is the metered tariff, promoted by international donors and many of India?s state governments.

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   Irrigation management transfer: how to make it work for Africa?s smallholders?

   Documents de politique et mémoires

   décembre, 2003

   gestion des eaux

   Based on research presented in ?Institutional Alternatives in African Smallholder Irrigation: :Lessons from International Experience with Irrigation Management Transfer (IWMI Research Report 60)? by Tushaar Shah, Barbara van Koppen, Marna de Lange, Madar Samad, and Douglas Merrey. An international review of IMT experiences shows that for transfer to work, the irrigation system must be central to a wealth-creating agriculture within which IMT makes good economic sense to farmers. This is not the case in a majority of Africa?s smallholder schemes.

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   Improving water productivity: how do we get more crop from every drop

   Documents de politique et mémoires

   décembre, 2003

   gestion des eaux

   Based on research presented in the book ?Water Productivity in Agriculture : Limits and Opportunities for Improvement? by J.W. Kijne, R. Barker and D. Molden. If current trends continue, the water crisis?which is already beginning to rear its head in many countries through depleted groundwater aquifers, dried-up rivers and wetlands, and frequent water shortages?will indeed become a global problem.