Productivity and Efficiency
According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, water efficiency is the smart use of our water resources through water-saving technologies and simple steps. Using water efficiently will help ensure reliable water supplies today and for future generations. Topics addressed in this theme provide insights, lessons, and guidance on how diverse stakeholders are working to improve water management and reduce water use.
Productivity and Efficiency Resources
Crafting Institutions: Self-Governing Irrigation Systems
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January 1, 1992U.S. Agency for International Development
This report outlines an approach to the design of irrigation institutions that is useful to officials in donor agencies, host governments, and other organizations involved in designing irrigation projects in developing countries. The crafting of irrigation institutions is an ongoing process that...Read more
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United StatesTraining Resource Book on a Participatory Method for Modeling Bio Resource Flows
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January 1, 1991U.S. Agency for International Development
This training resource book was developed for people working with farmers in farming systems research and extension. It deals specifically with a farmer-participatory method for constructing pictorial models. The model, in this case, concerns bio resource flows between aquaculture and agriculture...Read more
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United StatesA Bibliography of the Pearl Oysters
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January 1, 1991U.S. Agency for International Development
The culture of pearl oysters, once the closely guarded monopoly of the Japanese, has now proliferated throughout the Indo-Pacific region and has the potential of providing much-needed export income to cash-poor nations. This has already happened in French Polynesia, where the culture of Pinctada...Read more
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United StatesIrrigation Development in Africa: Lessons of Experience
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January 1, 1990U.S. Agency for International Development
This paper describes a significant subset of the African irrigation experience, from traditional flood recession systems to large projects like Gezira (Sudan) and Bura (Kenya). The authors analyze the key technical, socio-economic and institutional factions that have helped fashion success or...Read more
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United StatesNorth AmericaFisheries Stock Assessment: a Search for New Methods in Fisheries Stock Assessment
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January 1, 1990U.S. Agency for International Development
Small scale fisheries are an important source of food and employment in many coastal regions of the world, and represent a significant source of protein for domestic consumption in developing countries. Fisheries stock assessment techniques employed by third world countries often do not provide...Read more
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United StatesNorth AmericaCollaborative Research Support Program Pond Dynamics/Aquaculture Fifth Annual Administrative Report 1987
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March 1, 1988U.S. Agency for International Development
This administrative report addresses the management and technical accomplishments of the Pond Dynamics/Aquaculture Collaborative Research Support Program during the reporting period from September 1 1986 to August 31 1987.Read more
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United StatesNorth AmericaA Yield Model for Walking Catfish Production in Aquaculture Systems
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January 1, 1988U.S. Agency for International Development
A yield model for walking catfish was produced using a combination of laboratory data and field data from culture in Thailand. The model was used for simulations to fulfil three objectives: to consolidate knowledge of fish physiology and aquaculture practices, to determine sensitivity of...Read more
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United StatesNorth AmericaDesigning Projects for Irrigation Development
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August 1, 1987U.S. Agency for International Development
This brief note is intended to make available to AID staff, host countries and other consulting groups ideas and suggestions that drive from experiences as they apply to designing products for irrigation development.Read more
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United StatesNorth AmericaTechnical Report: Effect of Variability on Estimates of Cohort Parameters Using Length-Cohort Analysis With a Guide to Its Use and Misuse
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June 1, 1987U.S. Agency for International Development
This study covers equations for evaluating the effects of variability in the input parameters and for changes in the size of the length interval.Read more
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United StatesNorth AmericaPre-Rehabilitation Diagnostic Study of Sehra Irrigation System, Sind Pakistan
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May 1, 1987U.S. Agency for International Development
The feasibility report for the project places crop yield in Pakistan considerably below most other countries with similar agricultural resources. The low yields were attributed to a broad spectrum of constraints which included inefficiencies and inequities in water distribution, a poor extension...Read more
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