One of the key features of agricultural development in the last
five decades has been intensive groundwater use in the
Indo-Gangetic Basin (Pakistan, India, Nepal and Bangladesh) and in
the Yellow River Basin (China). Groundwater irrigates almost 60% of
the net irrigated area in South Asia and 70% in the north China
plains. Groundwater use for agriculture is still increasing.
Despite the growing significance of groundwater to agricultural
growth, food security and rural livelihoods globally, and at the
same time significant signs of limitations and constraints for
further use, knowledge of the subject has remained limited. The
subject includes the wider issues of socioeconomic impacts,
political economy, groundwater institutions, access to other
resources like energy and land, approaches to resource governance
and management and specifically integrating evidence-based science
into management decisions.
This book addresses these information shortfalls and provides a
consolidated and cross-disciplinary source of information and
documentation of realities and challenges of contemporary
agricultural groundwater use and management in poverty-prone areas
of Asia. It draws on primary data collected in the course of an
innovative, cross-coordinated and inter-disciplinary fieldwork
programme, covering those regions in Asia that significantly depend
on groundwater for agricultural livelihoods. This work is essential
reading for hydrogeologists, socio-economists, agro-economists and
water managers working in poor countries. Donors and implementers,
both government and NGO, will also learn from the experiences
described in this book.
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