Irrigation from river water supports 25% of global food production. The first complex societies arose in river valleys – from the Nile to the Indus to the Yangtze to the Tigris and Euphrates. Why did ...

In this op-ed, American Vegetable Grower Editor Carol Miller shows how the principles of irrigation haven’t changed. The ...

Large-scale irrigation is one of the land management practices with the largest effect on climate conditions – and especially hot extremes – in various regions across the globe. Yet how the climatic ...

On farms in some drought-stricken areas, some farmers now use drones to fly over fields so they can better see exactly when to water crops. But a technology called GrowStream is even more precise: The ...

Agriculture currently accounts for approximately 70% of global freshwater withdrawals. Amid increasing challenges posed by ...

Four Chinese historical irrigation sites were recognized as World Heritage Irrigation Structures, bringing the total number of such sites in China to 30, accounting for more than one fifth of the ...

Agriculture is a key sector in Nigeria, employing over a third of the population, but unpredictable weather makes farming uncertain. The TRIMING project expanded irrigation across 43,400 hectares, ...