Print Email Facebook Twitter Farmers' Strategies Coping with Water Shortage: A Case Study in the Irrigation District of La Joya Antigua, Peru Title Farmers' Strategies Coping with Water Shortage: A Case Study in the Irrigation District of La Joya Antigua, Peru Author Zhang, B. Contributor Van de Giesen, N.C. (mentor) Faculty Civil Engineering and Geosciences Department Water Management Programme Water Resources Date 2012-06-06 Abstract Located between the Andes Mountains and the southwestern coastline of Peru, the irrigation district of La Joya Antigua has a typical sub-tropical desert climate with very little annual precipitation. Study on this irrigation district shows sufficient irrigation water on most of the farms in a wet year but a deficit of irrigation water in a dry year. In order to cope with water shortage, strategies such as focusing on irrigating certain crops, reducing the irrigation area, changing crops to less water demand crops, etc are applied by the local farmers. The farmers' strategies have been proved to be a very effective way of reducing the crop water demand in the irrigation district of La Joya Antigua. Subject IrrigationPeruWater shortageSurface irrigationFarmers' strategiesPrickly pear cactus To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:6e6cb87b-b25c-4e1c-8b95-6e7177f3a234 Embargo date 2012-06-16 Part of collection Student theses Document type master thesis Rights (c) 2012 Zhang, B. Files PDF Final_Report_Bingjing_Zhang.pdf 4.3 MB PDF Appendix_Report_Bingjing_Zhang.pdf 7.98 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:6e6cb87b-b25c-4e1c-8b95-6e7177f3a234/datastream/OBJ1/view