Water productivity in agriculture : limits and opportunities for improvement edited by Jacob W. Kijne, Randolph Barker, and David Molden.

Includes index

Contributors vii
Series Foreword: Comprehensive Assessment of Water Management in Agriculture Series ix
Improving Water Productivity in Agriculture: Editors' Overview xi
Jacob W. Kijne, Randolph Barker and David Molden
1. A Water-productivity Framework for Understanding and Action
1 (18)
David Molden, Hammond Murray-Rust, R. Sakthivadivel and Ian Makin
2. Economics of Water Productivity in Managing Water for Agriculture
19 (18)
Randolph Barker, David Dawe and Arlene Inocencio
3. The Concept of Efficiency in Water-resources Management and Policy
37 (16)
David Seckler, David Molden and R. Sakthivadivel
4. Rice Production in Water-scarce Environments
53 (16)
T.P. Tuong and B.A.M. Bouman
5. Managing Saline and Alkaline Water for Higher Productivity
69 (20)
N.K. Tyagi
6. Water Productivity under Saline Conditions
89 (14)
Jacob W. Kijne
7. Opportunities for Increasing Water Productivity of CGIAR Crops through Plant Breeding and Molecular Biology
103 (24)
John Bennett
8. Management of Drought in ICRISAT Cereal and Legume Mandate Crops
127 (18)
R. Serraj, F.R. Bidfinger, Y.S. Chauhan, N. Seetharama, S.N. Nigam and N.P. Saxena
9. Water Productivity in Rain-fed Agriculture: Challenges and Opportunities for Smallholder Farmers In Drought-prone Tropical Agroecosystems
145 (18)
John Rockstrom, Jennie Barron and Patrick Fox
10. World Water Productivity: Current Situation and Future Options 163 (16)
Ximing Cai and Mark W. Rosegrant
11. Improving Water Productivity in the Dry Areas of West Asia and North Africa 179 (20)
Theib Y. Oweis and Ahmed Y. Hachum
12. Efficient Management of Rainwater for Increased Crop Productivity and Groundwater Recharge in Asia 199 (18)
S.P. Wani, P. Pothak, T.K. Sreedevi, H.P. Singh and P. Singh
13. Water Productivity in Forestry and Agroforestry 217 (12)
C.K. Ong and B.M. Swallow
14. Water Productivity and Potato Cultivation 229 (10)
Walter T. Bowen
15. Rice-Wheat Cropping Systems in the Indo-Gangetic Plains: Issues of Water Productivity in Relation to New Resource-conserving Technologies 239 (16)
Peter R. Hobbs and Raj K. Gupta
16. Land and Water Productivity of Wheat in the Western Indo-Gangetic Plains of India and Pakistan: a Comparative Analysis 255 (18)
Intizar Hussain, R. Sakthivadivel and Upali Amarasinghe
17. Reform of the Thai Irrigation Sector: is there Scope for Increasing Water Productivity? 273 (16)
Francois Molle
18. Upscaling Water Productivity In Irrigated Agriculture Using Remote-sensing and GIS Technologies 289 (12)
Wim Bastiaanssen, Mobin-ud-Din Ahmad and Zubair Tahir
19. Improving Water Productivity through Deficit Irrigation: Examples from Syria, the North China Plain and Oregon, USA 301 (10)
Heping Zhang
Appendix A. A Note on Transpiration 311 (8)
David Seckler
Appendix B. Note on Agronomic Practices for Increasing Crop Water Productivity 319 (4)
Jacob W. Kijne
Index 323

The book represents the first in a new series of volumes resulting from the Comprehensive Assessment of Water Management in Agriculture, a research programme conducted by the CGIAR's Future Harvest Centres, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and partners worldwide. It will be of significant interest to those working in areas of soil and crop science, water management, irrigation and development studies.