Abstract Given the aesthetic, cultural, ecological, and economic value of date agro-system in Southwestern Tunisia, different management conservation strategies have been warrantee to optimize land productivity sustainably. However, inefficiency adopted actions resulted a continuous loss soil fertility decreasing fruit quality. Thus, present paper attempts evaluate accurately evolution principa...

Abstract Sustainable irrigation expansion over water limited croplands is an important measure to enhance agricultural yields and increase the resilience of crop production global warming. While existing assessments mainly illustrate biophysical potential for irrigation, socioeconomic factors such as weak governance or low income, that demonstrably impede successful implementation sustainable r...

This study examined environmental and socioeconomic outcomes of a water project in rural Bolivia, and sought insights on how and why its planning was so flawed. The project destroyed an ancient, sustainable irrigation system, and replaced it with one that provides insufficient and diminishing quantities of water to many fewer people, appears to be causing land degradation and groundwater deplet...

1 CSIRO Land and Water, Adelaide, Australia. Email: [email protected] 2 CSIRO Land and Water, Canberra, Australia. Water is a key resource to sustain human life. Therefore, sustaining growth in the human population requires even more water to be available. Water sharing management is the major problem for water resources and irrigation management decision makers. The water Act 2007-Austral...

Social interactions among multiple user groups of tank irrigation systems were studied to propose policies for sustainable management of tanks. Crop growers are the major competitors for water besides encroachers, fish and duck farmers. Existence of week property rights remained as the reason for the competition among users that subsequently led to conflicts. Conflicts aroused among user groups...

The proposition that natural resources need protection from the destructive actions of people is widely accepted. Yet communities have shown in the past and increasingly today that they can collaborate for long-term resource management. The term social capital captures the idea that social bonds and norms are critical for sustainability. Where social capital is high in formalized groups, people...

sugarcane, which has high water requirements, is grown in khuzestan province (iran). climate and optimizing the use of water is very important to sustainable cultivation of sugarcane. studies of water requirements for sugar cane in khuzestan show that in parts of sugarcane agro-industry, the water applied is more than the actual water requirement of the plant. the present study was conducted to...