Water for Food Water for Life: A Comprehensive Assessment of Water Management in Agriculture

ISBN-13: 9781844073962 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 664 str.

David Molden

Opis

This comprehensive assessment of the world's water critically evaluates current thinking on water and its interplay with agriculture, charting the way forward with concrete actions from management to policy level across all countries and territories.

Spis treści

Summary for Decisionmakers * Part I: Setting the Scene * Setting the Scene * Part II: Trends and Scenarios * Trends in Water and Agricultural Development * Looking Ahead to 2050: Scenarios of Alternative Investment Approaches * Part III: Integrating Issues * Reversing the Flow: Agricultural Water Management Pathways for Poverty Reduction * Policy and Institutional Reform: the Art of the Possible * Agriculture, Water, and Ecosystems: Avoiding the Costs of Going Too Far * Pathways for Increasing Agricultural Water Productivity * Part IV: Thematic Issues * Managing Water in Rainfed Agriculture * Reinventing Irrigation * Groundwater: A Global Assessment of Scale and Significance * Agricultural Use of Marginal-Quality Water-Opportunities and Challenges * Inland Fisheries and Aquaculture * Water and Livestock for Human Development * Rice: Feeding the Billions * Conserving Land-Protecting Water * River Basin Development and Management

O autorze

David Molden is Deputy Director General, Research, at the International Water Management Institute and Coordinator of the Comprehensive Assessment for Water Management in Agriculture. His passion for water issues was sparked while helping villagers organize to develop a drinking water well in Lesotho. With a PhD from Colorado State University, United States, and specialties in groundwater hydrology and irrigation, has since developed broader interests in integrating social and technical aspects of water management. Has lived and worked closely with local communities and governments in Botswana, Egypt, India, Lesotho, and Nepal.