Participatory Irrigation Management: Barind Model a New Sustainable Initiative

Defining precision irrigation: A new approach to irrigation management

Although the term precision irrigation is now quite widely used, often to mean drip irrigation, there is no commonly accepted definition or conceptualisation of the term, and no cohesive framework to guide research, development or adoption. This paper is reporting on a review of precision irrigation funded by NPSI. This review is considering the role of current irrigation application technologi...

Sustainable Management of Large Scale Irrigation Systems: A Decision Support Model for Gediz Basin, Turkey

Participatory Indicator Development for Sustainable Natural Resource Management

There have been few attempts to develop, test or apply sustainability indicators for natural resource management at a farm-level, and even fewer have fully consulted land users from the initiation of this process. While environmental sustainability indicators need to be accurate and reliable, land users also need them to be rapid, cost-effective and easy to use, in addition to being linked to m...

Participatory breeding, an approach for sustainable production of new rice cultivars in Iran

 Over the past 50 years, thousands of rice varieties have been introduced by plant breeders to agricultural communities all over the world. Despite the improvement of attributes such as grain yield and tolerance to biotic and abiotic stresses, a significant portion of farmers still prefer local varieties over the improved cultivars. The main reasons for this perference are the absence of a dire...

Proposing a Participatory Model of Teacher Evaluation

Introduction: Developing a fair and organized evaluation system with faculty members’ own participation, could lead to faculty members’ more satisfaction with evaluation. The goal of this study was to determine the effects of a participatory model of evaluation on faculty members’ perspective toward this model. Methods: In this pre-experimental study as one shot case study, 55 faculty members...