Food and Asian Irrigation

Food and Asian Irrigation

Asian irrigation must be revitalised

Reporting on SciDev.Net on 18 August 2009, Katherine Nightingale notes:

Asia's run-down irrigation systems need to be updated if the continent is to meet the challenge of feeding an extra 1.5 billion people by 2050, according to a new report (PDF 6.20MB).

Image (above): A farmer in Bangladesh. Asian irrigation needs an overhaul. Flickr/IRRI

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