Agricultural water management is a vital practice in ensuring food security, poverty reduction, and environmental protection. After decades of successfully expanding irrigation and improving productivity, farmers and managers face an emerging crisis in the form of poorly performing irrigation schemes, slow modernization, declining investment, constrained water availability, and environmental degradation.
More and better investments in agricultural water are needed. In response, the World Bank, in conjunction with many partner agencies, has compiled this selection of good experiences that can guide practitioners in the design of quality investments in agricultural water.
The messages on this site center around the key challenges to agricultural water management as listed on the left-hand menu.Â
We hope that you will find this an important resource for your work on development projects that include agricultural water.
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