Water for Food Security

Claudia Ringler is Deputy Division Director of the Environment and Production Technology Division at the International Food Policy Research Institute. Her research interests are water resources management--in particular, river basin management--and agricultural and natural resource policies for developing countries. She has more than eighty publications in these areas.Arif Anwar is Principal Researcher and Head of Office at the International Water Management Institute. His research interests are in water resources management, particularly in irrigated agriculture in the context of large irrigation systems. Arif specializes in the application of operations research techniques to the operation of irrigation canal systems.

• 1. Water for food security: challenges for Pakistan 2. Progress of constitutional change and irrigation management transfer in Pakistan: insights from a net-map exercise 3. An old–new measure of canal water inequity 4. Is a surface-water market physically feasible in Pakistan’s Indus Basin Irrigation System? 5. Energy use in large-scale irrigated agriculture in the Punjab province of Pakistan 6. Using fallout 137Cs for evaluation of watershed management in a sub-catchment of Mangla, Pakistan 7. Comparative institutional analysis of customary rights and colonial law in spate irrigation systems of Pakistani Punjab 8. Droughts in Pakistan: a spatiotemporal variability analysis using the Standardized Precipitation Index 9. An introduction to the IBMR, a hydro-economic model for climate change impact assessment in Pakistan’s Indus River basin 10. Climate change impacts and adaptation options for water and food in Pakistan: scenario analysis using an integrated global water and food projections model