SPaRC’ing a Revolution
The use of solar panels to power irrigation pumps in India has trebled in recent years. While providing a cleaner energy source than diesel pumps, this “free” energy could lead...
UTFI on National Television
DD Kisan’s Gao India program featured Underground Taming of Floods for Irrigation (UTFI) project which was aired on 17-11-2015 on the national channel. http://utfi.iwmi.org/ The ‘Water Secure Program’ episode covers...
SPaRC’ing a Revolution (Full Length Version)
The use of solar panels to power irrigation pumps in India has trebled in recent years. While providing a cleaner energy source than diesel pumps, this “free” energy could lead...
Solar powered pumps in India: Irrigation assets or environmental threats?
From 2013-14, the use of solar powered pumps for irrigation in India trebled. For farmers in Eastern India with little power but abundant groundwater, solar pumping could bring great benefits....
Underground Taming of Floods for Irrigation
Millions of people in South and Southeast Asia face the prospect of catastrophic flooding each year. The floods destroy crops and infrastructure worth hundreds of millions of dollars. More info...
A pivotal moment - Can high tech irrigation work in rural Africa?
Christopher Neale, Director of Research at the Robert B Daugherty Water for Food Institute (DWFI), University of Nebraska talks about an ambitious project to trial a pivot irrigation system in...
Underground Taming of Floods for Irrigation
Millions of people in South and Southeast Asia face the prospect of catastrophic flooding each year. The floods destroy crops and infrastructure worth hundreds of millions of dollars. More info...
IWMI Strategy: Solutions for a water-secure world
Jeremy Bird, IWMI's Director General, talks about the institution's new five year research strategy.
Calling in smarter canal management
Peter-Jules van Overloop interviewed by James Clarke (IWMI) Read the blog post at http://goo.gl/7ZTCZG Running complex canal systems has proved immensely challenging for water managers in many resource poor countries....
Voices from women and men farmers in Nepal (4) -- Farming -- Men's views
This film was shot and roughly edited by a group of Nepali men from the Terai region as part of a participatory video project conducted by IWMI in 2013. It...
Training program on community engagement on small-scale irrigation interventions (IWMI)
In 2009-2012, IWMI conducted a study for the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) on the performance of their agricultural water management interventions across five countries in Africa and Asia:...
Challenges of managing water for food production in Pakistan - Arif Anwar
The underperforming irrigation networks of Pakistan make up the largest contiguous canal system in the world. Arif Anwar, who leads IWMI's research in Pakistan, talks about the challenges of managing...
How Central Asia responded to water management challenges - Kai Wegerich
Kai Wegerich of IWMI's Tashkent office argues that cooperation at all levels has been a far more common response to the break-up of Soviet era irrigation and water management systems...
Good farming practices to reduce vegetable contamination
A video highlighting options in good farming practices tested in wastewater-irrigated fields in Ghana.
Managing Water - More Food, Higher Incomes
The AgWater Solutions Project, led by IWMI, explored how innovations in on-farm water management could help smallholder farmers. In Ghana, one of the countries targeted by the researchers, the use...
A wastewater irrigation system in urban Accra, Ghana (IWMI)
This video was produced by the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) and its partners as a knowledge sharing aid.
The water under your feet in Laos
The water beneath our feet is a valuable irrigation resource for farmers affected by drought in rural Laos, and can increase crop yields and income for farmers. Students at the...
IWMI - Irrigation using Wastewater - Dr. Pay Drechsel
Dr. Pay Drechsel (Theme Leader - Water Quality Health and Environment), talks about using wastewater for irrigation.
Phases That Characterize Irrigation in Asia - Aditi Mukherji (IWMI)
Discussing the future of irrigation in Asia Aditi Mukherji talks about phases that characterize irrigation in Asia. Video produced by IWMI for Stockholm Water Week.
How The Situation Has Changed In Asia - Mark Giordano (IWMI)
Discussing the future of irrigation in Asia Mark Giordano talks about how the situation has changed in Asia. Video produced by IWMI for Stockholm Water Week.
Brokering knowledge for sustainability
Enabling gender and youth inclusion
Co-developing innovation bundles
Strengthening and sustaining the enabling environment
Enhancing capacity for system transformation
Fostering scaling partnerships
Cultivating scaling preparedness
Population pressure and increasing water competition in a changing climate require us to take stock of the availability and use of water across scales. Water availability not only influences farmers’ commercial prospects but also irrigation-related enterprises and agri-businesses. Greater water scarcity could jeopardize irrigation and agricultural markets while excessive water use can lead to declining ecosystems, water quality and soil health. IWMI advises development partners and the public and private sectors on all aspects of water resource availability and use through a variety of advanced modeling and remote-sensing products and tools, including 
The ability of farmers to engage in or expand irrigation depends on the prevailing socioeconomic, ecological and political contexts, which are often complex, non-linear and changeable. Overcoming systemic barriers to farmer-led irrigation development while taking advantage of existing opportunities 
A lack of affordable credit, particularly for women and resource-poor farmers, is one of the main barriers to expanding farmer-led irrigation in low- and middle-income countries. But 
Scaling farmer-led irrigation requires strengthening human capacity and knowledge exchange among all actors and stakeholders involved. IWMI takes an action research approach, working with national and international research institutions, governments, extension agents and public and private organizations to co-develop the scaling ecosystem and strengthen capacity to drive scaling networks and collective action. We support the