North-eastern Syria (muhafaza of Raqqa, Deir ez Zor and Hassakeh) is a strategic agricultural region for Syria. It provides 80% of cotton production and 50 to 60% of wheat. Agriculture is the main source of income for more than 50% of the population and the motor of regional economic activity. Since the early 2000's, agriculture in the North East suffers from a lack of water resources, due to overexploitation and several successive droughts. The modernization of irrigation launched in 2005 by the Syrian government is far behind in the region despite the acuteness of the problem. This is largely explained by the predatory attitude of the bureaucracy and the strategy of political control of the region, implemented by the Syrian regime, which ...
yesThe context for irrigation modernization in Syria reflects global drivers for change in irrigated...
This article reviews the origins of the Lebanese hydraulic mission, emphasizing the relation of wate...
The harsh conditions of the Mediterranean coast contrast with those of the Nile valley. The coast is...
North-eastern Syria (muhafaza of Raqqa, Deir ez Zor and Hassakeh) is a strategic agricultural region...
The north-eastern Syria (muhafaza of Raqqa, Deir ez Zor and Hassakeh) is a strategic agricultural re...
The north-eastern Syria (muhafaza of Raqqa, Deir ez Zor and Hassakeh) is a strategic agricultural re...
Le Nord‑Est de la Syrie (muhafaza de Raqqa, Deir ez Zor et Hassakeh) est une région agricole stratég...
Water scarcity in Syria has resulted in the sacrifice of agriculture for the cities. But this is ins...
Water scarcity in Syria has resulted in the sacrifice of agriculture for the cities. But this is ins...
Irrigated agriculture has increased steadily in Syria over the last decades, almost doubling since 1...
Water management and society in the Ghab country (Syria) The Ghab project (on the middle part of the...
Irrigation still is a privileged vector for enhancing agricultural areas and, therefore, a valuable ...
International audienceThe Syrian countryside lives deep socio spatial transformations with the reinf...
For thousands of years Mediterranean agriculture has had to deal with the dual constraints of drough...
Syrian dry areas have been for several millennia a place of interaction between human populations an...
yesThe context for irrigation modernization in Syria reflects global drivers for change in irrigated...
This article reviews the origins of the Lebanese hydraulic mission, emphasizing the relation of wate...
The harsh conditions of the Mediterranean coast contrast with those of the Nile valley. The coast is...
North-eastern Syria (muhafaza of Raqqa, Deir ez Zor and Hassakeh) is a strategic agricultural region...
The north-eastern Syria (muhafaza of Raqqa, Deir ez Zor and Hassakeh) is a strategic agricultural re...
The north-eastern Syria (muhafaza of Raqqa, Deir ez Zor and Hassakeh) is a strategic agricultural re...
Le Nord‑Est de la Syrie (muhafaza de Raqqa, Deir ez Zor et Hassakeh) est une région agricole stratég...
Water scarcity in Syria has resulted in the sacrifice of agriculture for the cities. But this is ins...
Water scarcity in Syria has resulted in the sacrifice of agriculture for the cities. But this is ins...
Irrigated agriculture has increased steadily in Syria over the last decades, almost doubling since 1...
Water management and society in the Ghab country (Syria) The Ghab project (on the middle part of the...
Irrigation still is a privileged vector for enhancing agricultural areas and, therefore, a valuable ...
International audienceThe Syrian countryside lives deep socio spatial transformations with the reinf...
For thousands of years Mediterranean agriculture has had to deal with the dual constraints of drough...
Syrian dry areas have been for several millennia a place of interaction between human populations an...
yesThe context for irrigation modernization in Syria reflects global drivers for change in irrigated...
This article reviews the origins of the Lebanese hydraulic mission, emphasizing the relation of wate...
The harsh conditions of the Mediterranean coast contrast with those of the Nile valley. The coast is...