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Institutional factors affecting irrigation performance in Pakistan: research and policy priorities

Journal Articles & Books
December 1992
Pakistan
Southern Asia

The strong irrigation tradition has sustained the broad based community community interest in irrigation. The result is a very complex institutional milieu in which a set of formally established irrigation rules and organizations exists side by side with an intricate set of social institutions. The two sets act like a dual system often in conflict with each other.

Guidelines: land evaluation for extensive grazing

Journal Articles & Books
December 1991
France
Zambia
Afghanistan
Zimbabwe
Australia
Greece
Guinea
Ethiopia
Pakistan
Colombia
Panama
Kenya
Jordan
Philippines
Libya
Italy
Botswana
Netherlands
Argentina
Sudan
Europe
Asia
Africa
Northern America
Land, Climate Change & Environment
agricultural land management
land
land suitability
land-use planning
natural resources management
land use
land administration
environment
sustainable land management
land management
land degradation
grazing
land improvement

Extensive grazing is the predominant form of land use on at least a quarter of the world’s land surface, in which livestock are raised on food that comes mainly from rangelands. Extensive grazing differs from crop or forestry production, in which the produce remains in situ whilst growing.

Irrigation management in Pakistan mountain environment

Journal Articles & Books
December 1989
Pakistan
Southern Asia
water management

This paper is a preliminary effort to define the extent of irrigation in Pakistan's mountain regions. Attention is given to some changes already begun in this environment through new irrigation development activities. Important knowledge gaps that need to be filled by more systematic and multidisciplinary research are identified.

Irrigation management in relation to waterlogging and salinity: precise for a research agenda in Pakistan

Journal Articles & Books
December 1989
Pakistan
Southern Asia
water management

This paper presents an overview of the current state of knowledge on the relations between irrigation management in Pakistan and the incidence of waterlogging and salinity. It is emphasized that management research should focus on the whole system, including surface and ground water resources.

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