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Technology Transfer for Sustainable Water Resources Development

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Sustainability of Irrigated Agriculture

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Irrigation has played a major role in the increase of agricultural production. Presently 245 million ha or 17% of the total arable land in the world are irrigated providing 35% of food production. To sustain the ever-increasing world population, production from irrigated land needs to provide 45% of the total food requirements by 2010 (FAO 1993a).

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  1. Water Resources, Development and Management Service Land and Water Development Division, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Italy

    M. Smith (Senior Officer Irrigation Management)

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  1. Department of Agricultural Engineering, Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal

    L. S. Pereira

  2. Agricultural Engineering Department, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA

    R. A. Feddes

  3. Department of Water Resources, Wageningen Agricultural University, Wageningen, The Netherlands

    J. R. Gilley

  4. CEMAGREF, Antony, France

    B. Lesaffre

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Smith, M. (1996). Technology Transfer for Sustainable Water Resources Development. In: Pereira, L.S., Feddes, R.A., Gilley, J.R., Lesaffre, B. (eds) Sustainability of Irrigated Agriculture. NATO ASI Series, vol 312. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8700-6_34

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