Irrigation in the Middle East Region in figures
Subtitle: AQUASTAT survey - 2008
By: edited by Karen Frenken
Contributors: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Series: FAO water reports -- 34; Water reports -- 34.
Publisher: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Rome
Language: eng
Number of pages: 402
ISBN-13: 9789251063163
Subjects: Irrigation
Description: The AQUASTAT Program was initiated with a view to presenting a comprehensive picture of water resources and irrigation in the countries of Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean and providing systematic, up-to-date and reliable information on water for agriculture and rural development. This report presents the results of the most recent survey carried out in the 18 countries of the Middle East region, and it analyzes the changes that have occurred in the ten years since the first survey. It contains the detailed profiles on the situation in each country.--Publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

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Table of contents: title: Presentations of the survey. Introduction; title: Country profiles; title: Data collection, processing and reliability; title: Glossary of terms used in this study; title: Regional analysis. Composition of the Middle East region; title: Geography, climate and population; title: Economy, agriculture and food security; title: Water resources; title: Water withdrawal; title: Irrigation and water management; title: Cultivation in full/partial control irrigation schemes; title: Trends in the last ten years; title: Legislative and institutional framework of water management; title: Environment and health; title: Prospects for agricultural water management; title: Description of four transboundary river basins; title: Main sources of general information; title: Country profiles. Armenia; title: Azerbaijan; title: Bahrain; title: Georgia; title: Iran (Islamic Republic of); title: Iraq; title: Israel; title: Jordan; title: Kuwait; title: Lebanon; title: Occupied Palestinian territory; title: Oman; title: Qatar; title: Saudi Arabia; title: Syrian Arab Republic; title: Turkey; title: United Arab Emirates; title: Yemen.