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| Drip Irrigation Manual for Farmers
in arabic
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This irrigation manual provides practical information for farmers on basic drip irrigation principles and practices. It has been elaborated in the framework of project GCP/MOR/033/SPA, Pilot Project to Improve Irrigation Water Use in the Doukkala irrigation scheme (Morocco), funded by the Spanish Ministry of Agriculture. The manual consists of nine chapters: What is drip irrigation, advantages of drip irrigation, components of drip irrigation, conditions for success of drip irrigation, crop water requirements, agricultural practices and operation and maintenance of the equipment.
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Searching for Water Peace
United Nations International Year of Water Cooperation
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This year is the United Nations International Year of Water Cooperation. One important area of cooperation involves transboundary rivers, which can be a source of conflict, or economic benefit the countries.
Over the last 50 years, over 200 treaties have been signed regulating the use of rivers such as the Indus, Jordan and Danube. But in Central Asia, the five republics have been talking for 20 years without agreeing how to share the waters of the great Aral Sea Basin, source of water for agriculture and hydropower. Now they may be getting somewhere.
This report from the UN Food and Agriculture Organization explains the background of the issue and why hope for better cooperation is in the air.
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FAO Water Report No. 35 in Spanish
Reutilización del agua en la agricultura: ¿Beneficios para todos?
(The Wealth of Waste)
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New Factsheet on Drought
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Since 1900 more than 11 million people have
died as a consequence of drought and more
than 2 billion have been affected by drought,
more than any other physical hazard.
This factsheet provides insight into the impacts of drought, the current global situation and also hints at some of the measures being taken by the FAO Land and Water division to help combat this situation.
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Water Scarcity
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FAO Water Report No. 38
Coping With Water Scarcity -
An action framework for agriculture and food security
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FAO Water Report No. 37
Irrigation in Southern and Eastern Asia in Figures - Aquastat Survey
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This report presents the
results of the most recent survey carried out in the 22 countries of
the Southern and Eastern Asia region, and it analyses the changes
that have occurred in the ten years since the first survey.
Following
the AQUASTAT methodology, the survey relied as much as possible
on country-based statistics and information.
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FAO Irrigation and Drainage Paper No. 66
Crop Yield Response to Water
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