Starving the Tihama: Impact of War on Spate Irrigation Systems in Yemen
by Adel Zolail and Frank van Steenbergen For reasons no one can explain, a war has been raging in Yemen … Continued
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King Capillary: The Miracle Water Buffer
by Matthijs Kool, Abraham Mehari Haile, Karim Nawaz and Frank van Steenbergen December 12, 2016 In the Gash Spate Irrigation … Continued
Managing the Mega Irrigation Beast
by Abraham Mehari Haile, Eltigani Bashier and Frank van Steenbergen 2 September 2016 Measurements in major irrigation canal (credit: … Continued
Kingdoms of Spate
Like in other Kingdoms of the world, the Raya-valley farmers have their own rulers, the Kings of Spate. These … Continued
Salinization hazards of arid zone irrigation
Contribution from Lambert K Smedema, Arnhem, the Netherlands (lambertsmedema@hotmail.com) February, 2016 A casual review of the current state and … Continued
The Big Hole in the Middle East
By Sukru Esin and Frank van Steenbergen August 12, 2014 (re-posted February 27, 2015) Whilst the attention in Middle East … Continued
The Inverted Himalayas
Posted by Frank van Steenbergen and Alan Macdonald November 19, 2013 It must be the world’s greatest single groundwater system, … Continued
Mauretania: the bewildering variation in rice yields
Posted by Cecilia Borgia September 20, 2013 Being a farmer in Mauritania is not easy. Soil degradation, destructive floods, devastating … Continued
Water War Games
Posted by Frank van SteenbergenAugust 14, 2013 Using water as defense, drowning the land of 400,000 people, destroying villages and … Continued
Farmer-smart ICT?
Posted by Likimyelesh NigussieJune 03, 2013 One of the big challenges in achieving global food security is ‘closing the yield … Continued
On Water User Associations (WUAs)
{jcomments on} Posted by Frank van Steenbergen, courtesy Rajeshwar Mishra February 25, 2013 They were sometimes created by the stroke of … Continued
Managing Mega Irrigation Systems
by Frank van Steenbergen January 15, 2013 It is the world’s largest irrigation system, also called ‘the Indus Food Machine’- … Continued