Groundwater governance: Addressing core concepts and challenges

A Closas, KG Villholth - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
With decreasing aquifer levels, increasing groundwater pollution, inequitable access, and
generally poor management outcomes, better groundwater governance has been put …

[KNIHA][B] The new peasantries: rural development in times of globalization

JD Van der Ploeg - 2018 - taylorfrancis.com
When first published in 2008, The New Peasantries revolutionized our ways of thinking of
what constitutes the peasantry and repeasantization. It showed how a new era of empire …

[PDF][PDF] Sustainable water use in agriculture: a review of worldwide research.

W Ahmed, U Safdar, A Ali, K Haider, N Tahir, S Sajid… - 2022 - researchgate.net
Water is widely considered as the most important resource for long-term agricultural
development. Irrigated land will be added to as residential and industrial demand increases …

Multi-decadal analysis of water resources and agricultural change in a Mediterranean semiarid irrigated piedmont under water scarcity and human interaction

Y Ouassanouan, Y Fakir, V Simonneaux… - Science of The Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Mediterranean piedmonts are an important hydro-agricultural systems. They constitute the
junction between the mountains, where the streamflow is generated, and the surrounding …

[HTML][HTML] A scale-based framework to understand the promises, pitfalls and paradoxes of irrigation efficiency to meet major water challenges

B Lankford, A Closas, J Dalton, EL Gunn, T Hess… - Global Environmental …, 2020 - Elsevier
An effective placement of irrigation efficiency in water management will contribute towards
meeting the pre-eminent global water challenges of our time such as addressing water …

[PDF][PDF] The local and national politics of groundwater overexploitation.

F Molle, E López-Gunn… - Water …, 2018 - water-alternatives.org
Groundwater overexploitation is a worldwide phenomenon with important consequences
and as yet few effective solutions. Work on groundwater governance often emphasises the …

Collective irrigation reloaded. Re-collection and re-moralization of water management after privatization in Spain

C Sanchis-Ibor, R Boelens, M García-Mollá - Geoforum, 2017 - Elsevier
In recent decades, water has been subjected to different commodification and de-
collectivization processes. Increasingly, this is also affecting collective irrigation water …

[HTML][HTML] Drivers of conflict over customary land in the Middle Drâa Valley of Morocco

LMSN Sánchez, J Schilling, L Bossenbroek… - World Development, 2025 - Elsevier
Since the early 1980s, the Middle Drâa Valley (MDV) in south-eastern Morocco has seen
agricultural expansion from oases into customary land owned by different tribes, creating the …

A functional analysis of the role of input suppliers in an agricultural innovation system: The case of small-scale irrigation in Kenya

ST Hornum, S Bolwig - Agricultural Systems, 2021 - Elsevier
CONTEXT As a direct link between farmers and manufacturers of technologies, the
characteristics and activities of input suppliers can be expected to play an important role in …

Socio-Material Bricolage

A Mirhanoğlu, G Özerol, J Hoogesteger… - International Journal of …, 2023 - JSTOR
Drip irrigation is often considered a technological solution to increase water use efficiency
and crop productivity. However, all too often, its social and institutional entanglements are …