Improving water-efficient irrigation: Prospects and difficulties of innovative practices

Les Levidow, Daniele Zaccaria, Rodrigo Maia, Eduardo Vivas, Mladen Todorovic and Alessandra Scardigno

Agricultural Water Management, 2014, vol. 146, issue C, 84-94

Abstract: Innovative irrigation practices can enhance water efficiency, gaining an economic advantage while also reducing environmental burdens. In some cases the necessary knowledge has been provided by extension services, helping farmers to adapt and implement viable solutions, thus gaining more benefits from irrigation technology. Often investment in technological improvements has incurred higher water prices, however, without gaining the full potential benefits through water efficiency. Farmers generally lack adequate means and incentives to know crops’ water use, actual irrigation applications, crops’ yield response to different water management practices, and thus current on-farm water-efficiency levels.

Keywords: Innovative irrigation practices; Water-efficiency; Water users organisations; Shared responsibility; Knowledge-exchange system (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1016/j.agwat.2014.07.012

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