Low-pressure gravity-fed drip irrigation systems
The Groundwater Crisis Nobody Wants to Talk About India uses more groundwater than any country on earth. About 250 cubic kilometers a year, roughly a quarter of global groundwater extraction. Most of it goes to agriculture. And the water table…
Why Drip Irrigation Is Catching on in East Africa (And Where It Still Falls Short) I spent a week last year talking to smallholder coffee farmers in Kenya’s Kirinyaga County. Most of them water by hand, carrying buckets or dragging…
Most drip irrigation advice assumes you’ve got a pump and a steady power supply. Walk onto a lot of small farms in East Africa or the hills of Southeast Asia and that assumption falls apart. The pump either doesn’t exist…
I’ve spent years talking to farmers across Latin America about water. Not the operations with 200 hectares and a fleet of tractors. The guy with two hectares of coffee on a Colombian hillside. The family growing tomatoes outside Oaxaca. The…
Southeast Asia grows some of the world’s most water-intensive crops — rice, oil palm, sugarcane, vegetables — in a climate that swings between drowning and parching the same field within months. A farm in central Thailand can get 300mm of…
