Water management dilemma in the agricultural sector of Iran: A review focusing on water governance

M Nouri, M Homaee, LS Pereira, M Bybordi - Agricultural Water …, 2023 - Elsevier
Around 90% of fresh renewable water is being used in Iran, indicating high water stress
conditions across the country. Given that agricultural irrigation accounts for the majority of …

Assessing the implications of water harvesting intensification on upstream–downstream ecosystem services: A case study in the Lake Tana basin

YT Dile, L Karlberg, P Daggupati, R Srinivasan… - Science of the Total …, 2016 - Elsevier
Water harvesting systems have improved productivity in various regions in sub-Saharan
Africa. Similarly, they can help retain water in landscapes, build resilience against droughts …

Salinization pattern and its spatial distribution in the irrigated agriculture of Northern Ethiopia: An integrated approach of quantitative and spatial analysis

G Gebremeskel, TG Gebremicael, M Kifle… - Agricultural Water …, 2018 - Elsevier
Salinity adversely affects the environment, agro-ecosystems and agricultural productivity of
arid and semi-arid regions worldwide. This salinization occurs due to natural, human or both …

Effects of water deficits on growth, yield and water productivity of drip-irrigated onion (Allium cepa L.) in an arid region of Northwest China

J Zheng, G Huang, J Wang, Q Huang, LS Pereira, X Xu… - Irrigation science, 2013 - Springer
Aiming at investigating an appropriate irrigation management strategy that could lead to
increase onions yields and improve water productivity (WP), a two-year field experiment was …

[PDF][PDF] Effect of biochar on yield and yield components of wheat and post-harvest soil properties in Tigray, Ethiopia

GH Gebremedhin, H Bereket, B Daniel… - Journal of Fertilizers & …, 2015 - academia.edu
Biochar is a solid material obtained from the carbonization of any biomass including weeds,
crop residues and other wastes of plant origin. A greenhouse pot experiment was conducted …

Effect of surge flow and alternate irrigation on the irrigation efficiency and water productivity of onion in the semi-arid areas of North Ethiopia

M Kifle, TG Gebremicael, A Girmay… - Agricultural water …, 2017 - Elsevier
The study was conducted in the semi-arid areas of northern Ethiopia with the objective of
evaluating the effect of surge flow and alternate irrigation on irrigation performance …

[HTML][HTML] Sensitivity Analysis of Performance Indices of Surge-Flow Irrigation with System Variables Using the SIRMOD Model

C Romay, A Ezquerra-Canalejo, GF Botta - Agronomy, 2024 - mdpi.com
A current challenge of irrigationengineering is to modernize surface irrigation. For example,
surge flow irrigation has the potential to increase the efficiency of applying irrigationwater …

Evaluating the performance of small‐scale irrigation schemes in subhumid Ethiopian highlands

AM Belay, TT Assefa, SA Belay… - Irrigation and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
This study was conducted to evaluate the performance of two small‐scale irrigation (SSI)
schemes in the subhumid Ethiopian highlands. Water application at the farm level and flow …

A comparative analysis of yield gaps and water productivity on smallholder farms in Ethiopia, South Africa and Tunisia

N Jovanovic, C Musvoto, W De Clercq… - Irrigation and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Agriculture in developing countries will have to transform and increase production by an
estimated 70% in order to meet demands by 2050. Although well‐managed commercial …

Improving border irrigation performance with predesigned varied-discharge

K Liu, X Jiao, W Guo, Y An, MK Salahou - PloS one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Insufficient water resources restrict wheat production in the North China Plain, so it is urgent
and essential to improve the border irrigation performance and water use efficiency. This …