Indonesia Pioneers Irrigation Service Delivery Innovation
2022年7月6日 · Modernizing irrigation is a top priority for Indonesia, where agriculture represents around 14 percent of the economy and around 33 percent of the entire labor force. Through innovative irrigation service agreements, the World Bank’s Strategic Irrigation Modernization and Urgent Rehabilitation Project is tackling the country’s issues of quality-of-service delivery and …
Improving Water Quality and Efficiency for Agricultural Irrigation in ...
2020年10月27日 · The State of Sergipe is emblematic of these water challenges, as it struggles to confront its water problems in the context of rising urbanization, informality, water demand, and water pollution. Water scarcity combined with pollution and use conflicts were limiting factors for agriculture irrigation.
Agriculture Overview: Development news, research, data | World …
2024年10月9日 · Agriculture can help reduce poverty for 75% of the world's poor, who live in rural areas and work mainly in farming. It can raise incomes, improve food security and benefit the environment. The World Bank Group is a leading financier of agriculture, with $8.1 billion in new commitments in 2013.
Climate-Resilient Irrigation - World Bank Group
2022年10月5日 · Since 2008, the Irrigation and Water Resources Management Project (IWRMP) has been working towards improving agriculture productivity and the management of selected irrigation schemes in Nepal, as well as enhancing institutional capacity for integrated water resources management. The primary beneficiaries are over 415,200 water users of ...
Nepal: Irrigation and Water Resource Management - World Bank …
Challenge. Some of the key challenges that categorize irrigation development in Nepal are old infrastructure and poor performances of the existing irrigation systems; poor system efficiency and under–utilization of canal water; weak participation of Water Users Associations (WUAs), weak institutional capacity; weak linkages between agriculture and irrigation; continuation of …
Feed Chad’s Population and Sustain its Economy with Better …
2022年6月3日 · Chad’s economy has contracted since 2015, preventing the country from reducing poverty and improving development outcomes, according to the new studies published by the World Bank as part of the second Knowledge Week held in N’Djamena June 6-8, 2022. The authors stress the need to develop stronger agricultural and livestock value chains in …
Water in Agriculture - World Bank Group
2023年7月26日 · Water in agriculture is central to feeding the planet, providing livelihoods, and building resilience to climate shocks and extremes. Yet sustainable achievement of these objectives is threatened by growing demand for food and fiber, unsustainable resource use, and ever increasing climate volatility and change.
Future of Water in Agriculture in Albania - World Bank Group
2022年2月22日 · Irrigated agriculture in Albania, and the associated assets, are vulnerable to various hazards including floods, droughts, and seawater intrusion. It is expected that these threats will be exacerbated due to climate change. There is an urgent need for Albania to modernize the country’s degraded irrigation and drainage infrastructure.
Farmers Continue to Benefit From Irrigation Upgrades in …
The Balkhi canal is one of over 180 irrigation schemes rehabilitated across the country by IRDP. Over 425,000 households benefited from IRDP services, which aimed to improve access to irrigation in the targeted areas and strengthen capacity for water resources management at the National Water Affairs Regulation Authority (NAWARA).
World Bank Helps Bangladesh Improve Irrigation-based …
2021年3月9日 · The Climate-Smart Agriculture and Water Management Project will rehabilitate and modernize public Flood Control, Drainage, and Irrigation (FCDI) infrastructures. This will help improve irrigation and drainage service over 115,000 hectares where flood damage to crops will be reduced by 60 percent.