With reference to West Asia and North Africa.

This book, which contains 14 chapters, covers all aspects of rainfed agriculture, starting with its potential, current status, rainwater harvesting and suppleme

A large part of the global population lives in arid lands which have low rainfall and often lack the water required for sustainable population and economic grow

Dry areas suffer not only from limited rainfall but alsonatural leakage'-90% of rainwater is lost directly or indirectly, and is unavailable for agriculture or