Current projects in Land and Water Resources

LWR/2002/100 - Water harvesting and better cropping systems for the benefit of small farmers in watersheds of the East India Plateau

LWR/2005/001 - Addressing constraints to pulses in cereals-based cropping systems, with particular reference to poverty alleviation in north-western Bangladesh

LWR/2005/144 - Optimising canal and groundwater management to assist water user associations in maximising crop production and managing salinisation

LWR/2006/072 - Impacts of meso-scale Watershed Development in Andhra Pradesh (India) and their implications for designing and implementing improved WSD policies and programs

LWR/2006/158 - Enhancing institutional performance in watershed management in Andhra Pradesh, India

LWR/2007/113 - Impacts of climate change and watershed development on whole-of-basin agricultural water security in the Krishna and Murray-Darling Basins

LWR/2007/191 - Improving farmer livelihoods through efficient use of resources in crop-livestock farming systems in western China

LWR/2008/019 - Developing multi-scale climate change adaptation strategies for farming communities in Cambodia, Lao PDR, Bangladesh and India

LWR/2009/034 - Soil salinity management in central and southern Iraq

LWR/2009/046 - Improved irrigation water management to increase rice productivity in Cambodia

LWR/2010/015 - Improved village scale groundwater recharge and management for agriculture and livelihood development in India

LWR/2010/033 - Developing capacity in cropping systems modelling to promote food security and the sustainable use of water resources in South Asia

LWR/2010/080 - Overcoming agronomic and mechanisation constraints to development and adoption of conservation agriculture in diversified rice-based cropping in Bangladesh

LWR/2011/018 - Egypt-Australia on-farm water use efficiency and water management workshops

LWR/2011/066 - Scoping study to assess constraints and opportunities for future research into intensification of cropping systems in southern Bangladesh

LWR/2011/074 - Scoping study to assess constraints and opportunities for sustaining the tank irrigation ecosystems and smallholder livelihoods in East India and Nepal

LWR/2012/013 - Investing in water management to improve productivity of rice-based farming systems in Cambodia