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

Improving Policies and Programs for Farmer Organization and Participation in Irrigation Water Management

Published: 
December 1, 1985
U.S. Agency for International Development
Participatory approaches to irrigation water management have attracted increasing attention internationally, yet policy concerns in this area have not been systematically addressed. This report, based on interdisciplinary analysis of 50 cases of irrigation management worldwide, augmented by...Read more

Triennial Review: Pond Dynamics/Aquaculture Collaborative Research Support Program

Published: 
December 1, 1985
U.S. Agency for International Development
The global experiment is the major CRSP research activity. It was designed to remove a major constraint to expanding pond aquaculture worldwide in pursuit of the CRSP goal of increasing the availability of animal protein in less developed countries through pond aquaculture.Read more
Regional focus: 
Sub-Saharan Africa

Sociocultural Issues in West African Fisheries Development

Published: 
December 1, 1985
U.S. Agency for International Development
The focus of this paper is on the role of social and cultural variables in the development of the small-scale fishery in coastal West Africa. The small-scale marine fisheries of West Africa provide approximately 70 percent of the total marine production. Practically all of the small-scale fishermen...Read more
Regional focus: 
Sub-Saharan Africa

Report on Fish Handling and Refrigeration in Tonga for the Tonga Cooperative Federation and Friendly Islands Marketing Cooperative Ltd.

Published: 
November 16, 1985
U.S. Agency for International Development
Good handling practices for fish on fishing boats as well as of all frozen products must be established prior to beginning export. A number of the fish-handling practices observed by the consultant during his stay in Tonga should be improved in order to obtain a high quality product suitable for...Read more
Regional focus: 
East Asia and Pacific

Induced Maturation and Spawning of Milkfish, Chamos Chanos Forsskal, By Hormone Implantation

Published: 
November 8, 1985
U.S. Agency for International Development
Artificial induction of milkfish spawning has been achieved in the Philippines, Taiwan, and Hawaii. The injection of exogenous gonadotropins has been used traditionally to induce the final maturation of captive female fish at the completion of vitellogenesis. This paper reports trials with a new...Read more

Evaluation of Existing Irrigation Water Pricing Policy in Pakistan

Published: 
November 1, 1985
U.S. Agency for International Development
Irrigation water pricing policy in Pakistan has not only failed as an institutional mechanism for allocating water, but is also putting the Pakistani Government under heavy financial strain. Existing water charges must be significantly increased, this study argues, to bridge the increasing revenue-...Read more
Regional focus: 
PakistanSouth East Asia

Strategies for Irrigation Development Chad/USAID

Published: 
October 1, 1985
U.S. Agency for International Development
The potential for irrigation development in Chad's two climatic zones, the Sahelian and the Sudanian, is assessed. A brief introduction giving the report's perspective and a general country description precede summary statements on the irrigation analyses. A discussion of the Sahelian...Read more
Regional focus: 
ChadSub-Saharan Africa

Statistical Survey of Las Palmas Based International Trawlers for 1984

Published: 
October 1, 1985
U.S. Agency for International Development
Realizing the difficulties encountered by the CECAF Working Party on Resources Evaluation and the ad hoc Working Groups in evaluating the major fish stocks in the northern zone of the CECAF area, Spain, at the Fifth Session of the CECAF offered to assign a technician to record the activities of the...Read more
Regional focus: 
SenegalSub-Saharan Africa

An Annotated Bibliography of Factors Affecting Pumping and Irrigation in Africa

Published: 
October 1, 1985
U.S. Agency for International Development
This bibliographic search was started in order to provide the background documents for the development of a methodology of economic analysis of water pumping projects, particularly the energy trade-offs in water pumping.Read more
Regional focus: 
Sub-Saharan Africa

Irrigation Pricing and Management

Published: 
September 30, 1985
U.S. Agency for International Development
Case studies from Morocco, the Philippines, Indonesia, Peru, and the Dominican Republic are the basis of this analysis of irrigation system financing and management. The following issues were examined in depth: (1) the feasibility of cost recovery through direct and indirect charges; (2) whether...Read more
Regional focus: 
PhilippinesEast Asia and Pacific

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