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Interview with Dr. David Molden aired on Mexican Radio

Dr. David Molden, Deputy Director General of IWMI talks about water scarcity, water productivity and irrigation practices. Read More Source: http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/News_Room/Multimedia/cov

The Lesson of The Water Cycle. And don’t make hay while...

I understand that 'More crop per drop' is a decade-old concept of the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), one of the 15 centers under...

Bitter Harvest

As economist and Planning Commission member, Abhijit Sen, puts it, "In the case of Punjab and Haryana, we have actually mined the area. We...

Asia Teeters Toward Food Crisis from Lack of Water

In China, the agricultural use of groundwater has skyrocketed, and the fall in water tables has created a potential environmental catastrophe. "The breadbasket of...

Water shortages threaten Africa

The report, the International Assessment of Agricultural Science and Technology for Development (IAASTD), underscores the urgency of findings from last year's International Water Management...

Central Chronicle – Food crunch-II

According to a 2007 study by the International Water Management Institute, China aims to increase biofuel production fourfold to 15 billion litres of ethanol-9...

The Blue Revolution, Drop by Drop, Gene by Gene

During the green revolution, researchers and breeders focused on improving productivity by providing optimal environments - fertilizing poor soils, irrigating dry lands, destroying weeds...

A painful reality

Water shortage poses a problem as rice yields depend critically on water. A study by the International Water Management Institute suggests that by 2020...

Over 4000 UCs water quality assessment completed

According to the report, the major collaborative organisations are: United Nation Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco), International Water Management Institute (IWMI) International Centre...

Increasing the productivity of irrigation systems in China

Research from the International Water Management Institute, in Sri Lanka, and partners examines how water used for rice irrigation is managed in two sites...