Dr Colin Chartres, Director General, talks about agricultural water management solutions in the latest release from the ColinsSTRAIGHTtalk video series.


Dr Colin Chartres, Director General, talks about agricultural water management solutions in the latest release from the ColinsSTRAIGHTtalk video series.

IWMI Aditi Mukherji, Senior Researcher, talks about agricultural groundwater use in West Bengal, India.
When farmers manage their small-scale irrigation systems themselves their yields can increase by up to 300% in some cases and add tens of billions of dollars to household revenues, the Sri Lanka-based International Water Management Institute (IWMI) fou…
STOCKHOLM (24 AUGUST 2012)—As food prices escalate globally due to the failed monsoon season in Asia and the “super drought” in the US, a new study finds that smallscale irrigation schemes can protect millions of farmers from food insecurity and …

Results suggest that water management investment priorities should be reassessed to boost global food security and poverty alleviation.