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| Title | Watershed transformations through drip irrigation |
| Group | Water Resources Management group |
| Project type | thesis |
| Credits | 36 |
| Supervisor(s) | Saskia van der Kooij; Harm Boesveld |
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| Contact info | saskia.vanderkooij@wur.nl; harm.boesveld@wur.nl |
| Begin date | 2020/01/01 |
| End date | 2022/01/01 |
| Description | Country: Spain; Morocco
Host institute: tbd Period: open Problem context In the context of a larger research project (Drip irrigation Realities in Perspective, DRiP ), several WUR studies have been carried out in Spain and Morocco to map how the introduction of drip irrigation changes irrigation systems, institutes and watersheds. For diverse reasons which are not merely related to using water more efficiently farmers introduced drip irrigation on their fields, which allowed them to shift to other crops and take new land into production and hence transform entire watersheds. We invite students to re visit these areas which have been well studied 10 to 5 years ago, to shed a long term perspective on the transformations that accompany the introduction of drip irrigation. Research Objective/Question What are the long term watershed transformations that accompany the introduction of drip irrigation? What is expected from the student (type of research) We invite students with an interest in socio-technical approaches to do fieldwork in Spain or Morocco. Fieldwork methods could for example consist of: interviews, field observations, GIS, field measurements, etc. |
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