There is increasing pressure on the supply of and access to energy to meet Indonesia’s economic and social development. The utilization of national renewable energy sources has become a necessity. Indonesia’s Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources will establish a Center of Excellence to support the country’s clean energy program. 

One of the challenges in irrigation management is difficulty in assessing irrigation performance due to the lack of cost-effective evaluation methods. The use of satellite remote sensing, particularly evapotranspiration and crop cover maps, is seen as a potential solution. 

The World Bank’s policy on cost recovery in irrigation projects some forty years ago was founded on the principles of economic efficiency, income distribution, and public savings. Over this extended period, however, it may be observed that the principles are virtually unchanged, while the terminologies became a little more complicated and refined.

The collective impacts of pressures from competing demands on land and water resources, and the resulting agricultural transformations, have put some production systems at risk of breakdown in their environmental integrity and productive capacity. Greater collaboration among stakeholders to ensure the effective transboundary governance of these resources is essential. 

Irrigation is significantly important to food security, social and economic development, and social stability. Enhancing irrigation development to increase water use efficiency and productivity is needed. The government should continue to play an important role in irrigation development to achieve food security and increase farmers’ income. 

Irrigation is significantly important to food security, social and economic development, and social stability. Enhancing irrigation development to increase water use efficiency and productivity is needed. The government should continue to play an important role in irrigation development to achieve food security and increase farmers’ income. 

Water discussions require the use of terminologies that will work across all other water sectors. Rewriting the “adequate, equitable, reliable” mantra to “defined and transparent” just might offer irrigation agencies a hope of meeting their performance targets, and farmers the potential to better utilize scarce and unreliable supplies.

Asia has significantly increased agricultural productivity and reduced poverty since the 1960s. Demand and supply growth trends, however, project future increases in real world cereal and meat prices; hence there is a need to improve policies and boost investments to achieve agricultural development and food security.

This presentation attempts the use of a crystal ball to gain insights into the three basic drivers that will determine the nature of future demand for irrigation services. It explains the dynamics in Asia of these three drivers, and concludes speculatively on their impact on the design and management of irrigation systems. 

Recent irrigation trends in South Asia show signs of slowdown in groundwater use. This presentation examines the implications of this slowdown in private informal irrigation on farmers, and what this entails from the irrigation bureaucracies who may now find farmers develop renewed interest in their services.