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    Irrigation in the Middle East region in figures

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2009
    This FAO report aims to provide an accurate status of rural water resources management, with a special focus on irrigation, highlighting the major changes that have occurred in the last decade. In each country, the paper features major characteristics, trends, constraints and prospective changes in irrigation and in water resources.
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    Joint water quantity/quality management analysis in a biofuel production area: using an integrated economic-hydrologic model

    International Food Policy Research Institute, 2009
    Water management in the Pirapama River Basin in northeastern Brazil is affected by both water quantity and water quality constraints. The region is known for significant sugarcane-based ethanol production. Sugarcane production in the region goes hand in hand with controlled fertirrigation practices with potentially significant adverse impacts on the environment.
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    Development support monitor 2009: Africa in our hands

    African Monitor, 2009
    Although Africa attracted $43 billion in private capital, $40 billion in remittances and $38 billion in aid in 2008 it still faces a considerable resource gap. Such financial support, some would argue, is needed to ensure progressive mobilisation of Africa’s domestic resources and, in turn, social and economic development.
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    Values of inland fisheries in the Mekong river basin

    The WorldFish Center, 2007
    Asia has the most productive inland fisheries in the world. The fishery sector contributes significantly to the national economies of the region. Inland fisheries also improve food security by providing a source of protein and a livelihood for millions of people in this part of the world, especially the rural poor.
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    Integrated solutions to the water, agriculture and climate crises

    2009
    This report investigates the role of agriculture in addressing global challenges related to climate, water and food.
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    Low input food and nutrition security: growing and eating more for less

    Food & Nutrition Security and Permaculture in Malawi, 2005
    Tackling food insecurity in Malawi has moved away from emergency aid towards relief and recovery, with government policy looking at food diversification and nutrition. Produced following a nine-month study conducted in Malawi throughout 2005 involving twenty pilot projects, this manual presents a step by step and hands-on approach to achieve food security.
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    India’s water future to 2025–2050: business-as-usual scenario and deviations

    International Water Management Institute, 2007
    This research report captures the trends of key drivers of India’s water demand in the recent past, and assess their implications on future water demand and ultimately on water resources. Water demand of irrigation, domestic and industrial sectors is modeled for the years 2025 and 2050. Projections on water and food demand and supply are made as follows:
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    Toolkit for monitoring and evaluation of agricultural water management projects

    World Bank, 2008
    Pressures on agricultural water are intensifying, with the need to meet ever-rising food demands while at the same time increasing farmer incomes, reducing poverty, and protecting the environment, all from an increasingly constrained water resource base.
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    The future of sustainability in the Arab region

    International Union for Conservation for Conservation of Nature (ICUN) - West Asia/Middle East Regional Office (WAME), 2008
    The absence of a unified Arab perspective towards the sustainability approach and a lack of local capacity to generate a knowledge body which can contribute to the global debate on this, prompted the development of a regional forum to consolidate a south-based perspective with a special emphasis on Arab countries.
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    Conserving land, protecting water

    International Water Management Institute, 2008
    Following from the Comprehensive Assessment of Water Management in Agriculture project, this book examines the relationships and linkages between land use and water management and social systems.

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