This book contains 11 papers which cover a range of vital topics in the areas of water, agriculture, food security and ecosystems - the entire spectrum of developing and managing water in agriculture, from fully irrigated to fully rainfed lands. They are about people and society, why they decide to adopt certain practices and not others and, in particular, how water management can help poor people. They are about ecosystems - how agriculture affects ecosystems, the goods and services ecosystems provide for food security and how water can be managed to meet both food and environmental security objectives. This is the eighth book in the series.

In association with the International Water Management Institute.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

River basin trajectories : an inquiry into changing waterscapes / François Molle and Philippus Wester -- Squeezed dry : the historical trajectory of the lower Jordan River basin / Mauro Van Aken, François Molle and Jean-Philippe Venot -- Are good intentions leading to good outcomes? Continuities in social, economic and hydro-political trajectories in the Olifants River basin, South Africa / Douglas J. Merrey, Hervé Lévite and Barbara van Koppen -- From half-full to half-empty : the hydraulic mission and water over-exploitation in the Lerma-Chapala basin, Mexico / Philippus Wester, Eric Mollard, Paula Silva-Ochoa and Sergio Vargas-Velázquez -- Managing the Yellow River : continuity and change / David Pietz and Mark Giordano -- The Colorado River : what prospect for 'a river no more'? / Douglas J. Kenney -- Sharing scarce resources in a Mediterranean River basin : Wadi Merguellil in Central Tunisia / Patrick Legoulven, Christian Leduc, Mohamed Salah Bachta and Jean-Christophe Poussin -- Water competition, variability and river basin governance : a critical analysis of the Great Ruaha River, Tanzania / Bruce Lankford, Siza Tumbo and Kossa Rajabu -- Buying respite : Esfahan and the Zayandeh Rud River basin, Iran / François Molle, Iran Ghazi and Hammond Murray-Rust -- Rural dynamics and new challenges in the Indian water sector : the trajectory of the Krishna basin, South India / Jean-Philippe Venot -- Pumped out : basin closure and farmer adaptations in the Bhavani basin in Southern India / Mats Lannerstad and David Molden -- Much ado about the Murray : the drama of restraining water use / Hugh Turral, Daniel Connell and Jennifer McKay.

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