Karkheh Basin Focal Project | Land Portal

Resource information

Date of publication: 
May 2010
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ISBN / Resource ID: 
handle:10568/3870
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The Karkheh Basin Focal Project was designed to collect and organize baseline information

for future researchers and to highlight future research needs. All collected data is available

in the IDIS system. The specific research findings and recommendations for the basin are

1) The use of non-agricultural water measures is likely to be a more effective solution to

remaining rural poverty in the Karkheh basin and Iran; 2) In the short to medium term,

agricultural water policy and research should focus on improvements in physical water

productivity so as to improve the use scarce water resources for given national food

security priorities and 3) in the longer term, shift towards economic water productivity by

moving water away from lower productivity grain production and towards higher value

agricultural and other activities including hydropower generation and urban uses.

Authors and Publishers

Author(s), editor(s), contributor(s): 

Ahmad, M.D.
Giordano, M.

Publisher(s): 

CGIAR (CGIAR)

CGIAR is the only worldwide partnership addressing agricultural research for development, whose work contributes to the global effort to tackle poverty, hunger and major nutrition imbalances, and environmental degradation.


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CGIAR (CGIAR)

CGIAR is the only worldwide partnership addressing agricultural research for development, whose work contributes to the global effort to tackle poverty, hunger and major nutrition imbalances, and environmental degradation.


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