As water saving irrigation is being adopted in large scale in Asia and other regions, it is worth to exam consequent environmental implications to ensure its sustainable development.
The International Forum on Water Resources Management and Irrigation Modernization was co-organized by FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific and Shanxi Provincial Government in Taiyuan and Yuncheng Cities, Shanxi Province, China, 22-24 November 2006.
Irrigation plays a key role in global and regional agriculture development and food security. Rapid socio-economic development in Asia in the past decades brought new challenges and opportunities to irrigation sector, with large rice-based irrigation systems in Southeast Asia mostly affected.
FAO has been assisting the Mekong River Commission, since 2006, by providing capacity building and support to use the Rapid Appraisal Procedure (RAP) for an initial assessment of irrigation scheme performance in four pilot projects in the MRC member countries, in the context of the"Improvement of Irrigation Efficeincy on Paddy Fields in the Lower Mekong Basin (IIEPF)" project, supported by the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries of Japan. MRC has published the Report on the RAP Training Workshop and Initial Assessment of Irrigation Scheme Performance. The report can be consulted online on the MRC's website, at the following address: http://www.mrcmekong.org/programmes/AIFP/publications.htm .
An initiative for a Knowledge Hub to Re-invent Irrigation in the Asia-Pacific to be launched at the 1st Asia Pacific Water Summit
The Asia Pacific Water Forum is convening the 1st Asia Pacific Water Summit in Beppu, Japan, 3-4 December 2007. Click here to review the proposed initiative.
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MODERNIZATION OF IRRIGATION SCHEMES
This website of the Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations is dedicated to the modernization of irrigation systems.
On this website, you will find: News on events, publications, training courses, projects, updates of the website, etc. Website subscribers can post their related news on this website by contacting the webmaster. Tools for use in the appraisal, benchmarking and upgrading of irrigation systems for modernization and their upgrading. Training materials and programmes on operation and management, modernization and benchmarking of irrigation schemes. Training materials can be consulted on-line and downloaded from the website. Publications from FAO on modernization of irrigation schemes and links to relevant publications form other agencies and publishers. FAO publications can be downloaded for free from the website. Technical briefs and papers on technical, strategic and policy aspects of irrigation modernization.Technical briefs submitted by subscribers of the website will be uploaded on the website after review by the website manager. Links to related sites, projects, organizations and databases. By signing up to the website, you can participate in the web-board, get news on modernization activities and website updates, receive new FAO products on irrigation system modernization, post news and technical documents, have a link on the website to your website, organization or project. The manager of this website is Thierry Facon (Thierry.Facon@fao.org), Senior Regional Water Management Officer, FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific and the webmaster is Mongkhol Fangprasertkul. Please contact them for any information or problem related to the use of this website. Although the website is primarily destined for use by the irrigation and drainage professional community of Asia, it is believed that most of the documents, methodologies, tools and training materials available on the site will be of interest to professionals from other regions. It is hoped that the web-board of the site, links and technical briefs will facilitate the exchange of information among the professionals of Asia and other regions. Read more on: KEY IDEAS AND CONCEPTS ON THE MODERNIZATION OF IRRIGATION SYSTEMS |
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