The realities and challenges of contemporary groundwater-based smallholder irrigated farming across the Indus, Ganges and Yellow River basins

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cg.coverage.countryIndia
cg.coverage.countryChina
cg.coverage.countryPakistan
cg.coverage.countryBangladesh
cg.coverage.countryNepal
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2IN
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2CN
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2PK
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2BD
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2NP
cg.coverage.regionSouthern Asia
cg.coverage.regionEastern Asia
cg.creator.identifierAditi Mukherji: 0000-0002-8061-4349
cg.river.basinINDUSen
cg.river.basinGANGESen
cg.river.basinYELLOWen
dc.contributor.authorVillholth, Karen G.en
dc.contributor.authorMukherji, Aditien
dc.contributor.authorSharma, Bharat R.en
dc.contributor.authorWang, J.en
dc.date.accessioned2014-06-13T11:42:45Zen
dc.date.available2014-06-13T11:42:45Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/38723
dc.titleThe realities and challenges of contemporary groundwater-based smallholder irrigated farming across the Indus, Ganges and Yellow River basinsen
dcterms.abstractGroundwater has played an increasing role in irrigated farming, livelihood support, poverty alleviation, and national food security in India, China, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Nepal since the advent of the green revolution in the 1960s. This paper presents a synthesis of the results of a cross-regional research effort, based on surveys in more than 60 villages, to map the contemporary realities and constraints of groundwater use and adaptation in irrigated agriculture within smallholder farmer communities across the alluvial plains of the major Indus, Ganges and Yellow river basins in Asia. The results show a general over-exploitation of groundwater resources in Pakistan, western India, and China and relative under-utilization in eastern India and Bangladesh. But more interestingly, and despite its great significance, practically nowhere is groundwater managed in an integrated manner. As a result, its use is sub-optimal where smallholders today employ a range of adaptation and coping strategies to uphold groundwater benefits. The research findings point to various axes along which to identify solutions and focus equitable and sustainable policies and management interventions.en
dcterms.accessRightsLimited Access
dcterms.bibliographicCitationVillholth, K. G.; Mukherji, Aditi; Sharma, Bharat R.; Wang, J. 2009. The realities and challenges of contemporary groundwater-based smallholder irrigated farming across the Indus, Ganges and Yellow River basins. In Taniguchi, M.; Dausman, A.; Howard, K.; Polemio, M.; Lakshmanan, E. (Eds.). Trends and sustainability of groundwater in highly stressed aquifers: proceedings of Symposium JS.2 at the Joint Convention of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS) and the International Association of Hydrogeologists (IAH), Hyderabad, India, 6-12 September 2009. Wallingford, UK: International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS). pp.89-102. (IAHS Publication 329)en
dcterms.descriptionIn Taniguchi, M.; Dausman, A.; Howard, K.; Polemio, M.; Lakshmanan, E. (Eds.). Trends and sustainability of groundwater in highly stressed aquifers: proceedings of Symposium JS.2 at the Joint Convention of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS) and the International Association of Hydrogeologists (IAH), Hyderabad, India, 6-12 September 2009. Wallingford, UK: International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS).en
dcterms.descriptionIAHS Publication 329en
dcterms.extentp. 89-102en
dcterms.issued2009
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.subjectgroundwater irrigationen
dcterms.subjectpipesen
dcterms.subjectenergy consumptionen
dcterms.subjectwellsen
dcterms.subjectcostsen
dcterms.subjectcrop productionen
dcterms.subjectfarmers attitudesen
dcterms.subjectpovertyen
dcterms.subjectwater marketen
dcterms.typeConference Paper

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