• All Projects [1]
• Current Projects [2]
• Concluded Projects [3]
• Relevant Publications [4]

Research Program Manager: Dr Christian Roth
email: roth@aciar.gov.au [5]

The major objective of natural resources management research supported by ACIAR is to contribute to food security and wealth by enhancing long-term productivity, management and conservation of land and water resources in developing countries and Australia. The Land and Water Resources program concentrates on increasing water productivity through innovative technical interventions, applied at scales ranging from farm to irrigation scheme or catchment level, as well as through water policy interventions. The geographic focus of the program is South Asia (Pakistan, India and Bangladesh) and China.

Concluded Projects

LWR/1997/150 [6] - Salinity management in southeastern Australia, northeastern Thailand and Lao PDR

LWR/1998/003 [7] - Arsenic transfer in water-soil-crop environments of Bangladesh and Australia

LWR/1998/017 [8] - Integrative technologies for assessing the extent and cause of degradation in arid community rangelands

LWR/1998/124 [9] - Development of technologies to alleviate soil acidification in legume-based production systems in the tropics of Asia and Australia

LWR/1998/130 [10] - Water resources and salinity management in agricultural areas of inland Northern China and Northern Australia

LWR/2000/013 [11] - Sustainable agriculture in saline environments through serial biological concentration

LWR/2000/030 [12] - Growing more rice with less water: Increasing water productivity in rice-based cropping systems

LWR/2000/084 [13] - Minimising the off-site impact of pesticides from agricultural systems - a risk based approach

LWR/2000/089 [14] - Permanent beds for irrigated rice-wheat and alternative cropping systems in north-west India and south-east Australia

LWR/2000/120 [15] - Institutions and policies for improving water allocation and management in the Yellow River Basin, China

LWR/2001/001 [16] - Improving main system water management in China: A demonstration project in the Zhanghe Irrigation Scheme

LWR/2001/003 [17] - Integrated watershed management for sustainable soil and water resources management of the Inabanga watershed, Bohol Island, Philippines

LWR/2001/050 [18] - Equitable groundwater management for the development of atolls and small islands

LWR/2002/018 [19] - Regional impacts of re-vegetation on water resources of the Loess Plateau, China, and the Middle and Upper Murrumbidgee Catchment, Australia

LWR/2002/113 [20] - Application of innovative irrigated cropping and soil filtration technology for wastewater reuse and treatment in China

LWR/2005/042 [21] - Scoping study to assess the technical and economic feasibility of wheat production in southern Bangladesh

LWR/2005/051 [22] - Training courses: the management of tsunami-affected soils for production of rice and other crops

LWR/2005/059 [23] - Modelling water and solute processes and scenarios for optimisation of permanent raised bed systems in China, India, Pakistan and Indonesia

LWR/2006/076 [24] - Evaluation of opportunities and constraints for R&D investment into increasing water productivity of agriculture in NW China

LWR1/1991/020 [25] - Management of boron and zinc nutrition for oilseed crops in China

LWR1/1992/001 [26] - Sustainable cropping systems for tropical steeplands

LWR1/1992/022 [27] - Groundwater control measures for salinity management and agriculture in the Khon Kaen area, north east Thailand

LWR1/1993/002 [28] - Forage production from saline and/or sodic soils in Pakistan

LWR1/1993/003 [29] - Forage management for the red soils of south central China

LWR1/1993/022 [30] - Pollution of agricultural land due to waste disposal from tannery industries

LWR1/1994/014 [31] - Management of phosphorus for sustainable food crop production on acid upland soils in Australia, Philippines and Vietnam

LWR1/1994/046 [32] - Measurement and prediction of agrochemical movement in tropical sugar production

LWR1/1994/047 [33] - Improved orchard productivity and water use efficiency using modern irrigation and tree management techniques in northern China

LWR1/1994/054 [34] - Agrochemical pollution of water resources under tropical intensive agricultural systems

LWR1/1994/104 [35] - Increased plant production through the treatment of seeds and seedlings with micro-organisms

LWR1/1994/108 [36] - Identification of causes of wheat sterility in sub-tropical Asia

LWR1/1994/704 [37] - Coordinator of the ASIALAND Acid Soils Network

LWR1/1994/957 [38] - Assessment of pollution of agricultural land and crops by heavy metals and other inorganic contaminants

LWR1/1995/007 [39] - Regional water and soil assessment for managing sustainable agriculture

LWR1/1995/126 [40] - Sustainability of farming systems in Fiji and Papua New Guinea

LWR1/1996/164 [41] - Water and nitrogen management to increase agricultural production and improve environmental quality

LWR1/1996/172 [42] - Selecting Chamaecrista rotundifolia for soil stabilisation and forage

LWR1/1996/190 [43] - New technology for productive and sustainable reuse of wastewater for irrigated cropping

LWR1/1996/196 [44] - Potential constraints to the sustainability of legume based pasture systems in northern Australia and Thailand

LWR1/1997/016 [45] - Conjunctive water management for sustainable irrigated agriculture in South Asia

LWR1/1997/019 [46] - A system to reduce risk in the adoption of new rice production technologies in Cambodia

LWR1/1998/034 [47] - System-wide water management in publicly managed irrigation schemes in Vietnam

LWR1/1998/066 [48] - Impact of water saving irrigation techniques in China