Open AccessINTEGRATED WATER MANAGEMENT AND DURABILITY OF LANDSCAPE OF PUBLIC IRRIGATED AREAS IN TUNISIA: CASES OF PUBLIC IRRIGATED AREAS OF CHOTT-MARIEM AND MORNAG
Author(s) -
Abdelkarim Hamrita,
Amira Boussetta,
Rafael Mata Olmo,
Mehdi Saqalli,
Hichem Rejeb
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
international journal of research - granthaalayah
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2394-3629
pISSN - 2350-0530
DOI - 10.29121/granthaalayah.v5.i1.2017.1694
Subject(s) - sustainability , water scarcity , irrigation , agriculture , water resources , irrigation management , land management , water resource management , land use , natural resource , irrigated agriculture , scarcity , water supply , geography , environmental planning , environmental science , environmental engineering , economics , political science , engineering , ecology , civil engineering , archaeology , law , microeconomics , biology
An important part of the landscape of irrigated areas in Tunisia is the result of morphology, organization and operation of agricultural policies implemented since independence, aimed at optimizing the exploitation of the best soils and natural resources, particularly water and productive crop intensification. The sustainability of the landscape of public irrigated areas has a strong bonding with the resources of irrigation water and their states of management. The scarcity of irrigation water due to drought generates profound changes in many public irrigated areas as Chott-Mariem and Mornag, like standpoint operating (decrease of production) and land occupation (transformation of agricultural land to urban land). An investigation was carried out with farmers, leaders and policy makers, which the result was a range of measures and recommendations to promote sustainability of agricultural landscape.