The estate is irrigated, on the highway, close to the region's biggest city, Cagayan de Oro.
The floods devastated a tenth of Mozambique's land, and nine-tenths of its irrigated areas.
Another 20 percent of irrigated land is damaged by water logging or salinity, the agency says.
The house has a landscaped, irrigated South facing rear garden anchored by a mature Dogwood tree.
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More than half of the world's food comes from rain-fed farms, as opposed to irrigated ones.
Partly as a result, the land irrigated by canals has decreased by 35% since 1990.
Half the irrigated land in the Sao Francisco valley is the product of public investment.
Or a seasoned old pro, after a well-irrigated lunch, take his fat finger and hit the wrong button?
But the river system that covers two-thirds of Australia's irrigated farming land is also suffering from decades of overuse.
Starting in the 1960s, the Soviet bureaucracy irrigated cotton fields in Uzbekistan by diverting Himalayan rivers that used to feed the Aral Sea.
It is the least irrigated and electrified, yet it uses only 3% of its renewable water, against 52% in South Asia.
Because rice is grown in heavily irrigated conditions, it is more susceptible than other staple crops to environmental pollutants in irrigation water.
The results indicate a sizeable impact of Bt cotton on the yield and value of output under both irrigated and unirrigated conditions.
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Under Wyoming law, all he must do is show conclusively that he has irrigated his property just once in the past five years.
According to Cristina Milesi, a research scientist working at NASA's Ames Research Center, lawns are America's largest irrigated crop, with 63, 240 square miles under cultivation.
Irrigated rice-farming, which is two or three times more productive than the rain-fed sort, is growing rapidly throughout the basin, albeit from a low base.
But arid Adelaide recycles over 30% of its water, and to its south, the vineyards of McLaren Vale are irrigated with the city's waste water.
On the whole, only 3.5% of Africa's arable land is irrigated and about 9% of world fertilizer is used in the continent, according to the U.N.
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But that's still barely a trickle in a country with total farmland under cultivation of 300 million acres, of which less than half is irrigated at all.
Turns out the irrigated desert terrain, high altitude and resulting cool nights lengthen the growing season and create a more acid, but balanced, grape suited for sparkling wine.
But the underwater channels that irrigated them may have collapsed.
Even irrigated civilisations are not, however, immune from climate change.
That cold current is the reason why Peru's coastal plain is a desert (whose soil can be made fertile when irrigated by the waters of rivers rushing down from the Andes).
The last significant mountains before the Sahara are the arid, pink-and-ochre-coloured chain of the Anti Atlas, and beneath the arid, jagged mass of its two major peaks lie lush irrigated valleys and a string of oases.
Weiss is dusting off evidence in the region known as the Fertile Crescent, including much of modern-day Iraq and Syria, indicating that a human revolution in irrigated agriculture occurred after an extended drought and cold spell.
If the dams are not removed, new restrictions on logging, fish harvest, shipping channel deepening, and irrigated agriculture would be needed to avoid the extinction of five runs of Snake River salmon and steelhead, the paper says.
Weiss believes this climate change initiated a mass migration away from dry-land farming to the creation of irrigated fields along the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, allowing the people to build some of the earliest institutions of civilization.
Of course, rain-fed agriculture is even more vulnerable to climate change than the irrigated variety, as Ms Parcak's Cambridge colleague Lauren Ristvet showed the conference with her study of northern Syria during the same period as the fall of Egypt's Old Kingdom.
Best estimates of future global agricultural water consumption (including both rainfed and irrigated agriculture), are of an increase of about 19% by 2050, but this could be much higher if crop yields and the efficiency of agricultural production do not improve dramatically.
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