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Irrigation management strategies for the 21st century
In Schiller, E. J. (Ed.) Sustainable water resources management in arid countries: Middle East and Northern Africa - Special issue, Canadian Journal of Development Studie
Research and development for sustainable irrigation management
This paper seeks to provide guidelines to governments planning to undertake research and development programmes aimed at finding ways to manage irrigation systems in a sustainable way. After describing the challenges affecting irrigated agriculture at the present time, the paper presents two examples of action-oriented research projects, from which some preliminary principles for effective irrigation management research and development are derived