Irrigation in Africa, Europe and Latin America: Update of the digital global map of irrigation areas to Version 4
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Publication Title | Irrigation in Africa, Europe and Latin America: Update of the digital global map of irrigation areas to Version 4 |
Publication Type | Maps and statistics
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Author(s) | By Stefan Siebert, Jippe Hoogeveen, Karen Frenken; © 2006 Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
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Publication Date | 2007
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Publication URL | Access to the full publication: http://www.geo.uni-frankfurt.de/ipg/ag/dl/f_publikationen/2006/FHP_05_Siebert_et_al_2006.pdf
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Summary
This publication reports on the last update of the Digital Global Map of Irrigation Areas for the continents of Africa and Europe as well as for the countries Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Peru and Uruguay in Latin America. For this update, a new inventory of subnational irrigation statistics was compiled. The reference year for the statistics is 2000. In order to distribute the irrigation statistics per subnational unit, digital spatial data layers and printed maps were used. Irrigation maps were derived from project reports, irrigation subsector studies, and books related to irrigation and drainage. These maps were digitized and compared with satellite images of different regions.
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World Bank - Irrigation Development Project
Capacity development in irrigation and drainage: Issues, challenges and the way ahead
