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David James Molden's Degrees
- PhD Water Resources Management Colorado State University
- Masters Civil Engineering University of California, Davis
- Bachelors Civil Engineering University of California, Davis
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Published Works
- Water for food, water for life: a comprehensive assessment of water management in agriculture (2007) (879)
- Improving agricultural water productivity: Between optimism and caution (2010) (711)
- Radically Rethinking Agriculture for the 21st Century (2010) (675)
- World water demand and supply, 1990 to 2025: scenarios and issues (1998) (647)
- Water Productivity in Agriculture: Limits and Opportunities for Improvement (2003) (598)
- Accounting for water use and productivity (1997) (552)
- Remote sensing for irrigated agriculture: examples from research and possible applications (2000) (452)
- Saving water: from field to fork. Curbing losses and wastage in the food chain (2008) (440)
- Water Accounting to Assess Use and Productivity of Water (1999) (385)
- A water-productivity framework for understanding and action (2003) (362)
- Indicators for comparing performance of irrigated agricultural systems (1998) (360)
- Performance Measures for Evaluation of Irrigation‐Water‐Delivery Systems (1990) (316)
- The global groundwater situation: overview of opportunities and challenges (2000) (275)
- Irrigation and Drainage Performance Assessment: Practical Guidelines (2004) (205)
- Wake Up to Realities of River Basin Closure (2008) (199)
- Does international cereal trade save water? The impact of virtual water trade on global water use (2004) (195)
- Trends in water and agricultural development (2007) (192)
- The unfolding water drama in the Anthropocene: towards a resilience‐based perspective on water for global sustainability (2014) (183)
- Investing in water for food, ecosystems, and livelihoods: an overview of the Comprehensive Assessment of Water Management in Agriculture. (2010) (179)
- The concept of efficiency in water resources management and policy (2003) (169)
- Basin-level use and productivity of water: examples from South Asia (2001) (143)
- Water Accounting Plus (WA+) - a water accounting procedure for complex river basins based on satellite measurements (2012) (114)
- Measuring and enhancing the value of agricultural water in irrigated river basins (2007) (112)
- Water uses and productivity of irrigation systems (2007) (102)
- A global benchmark map of water productivity for rainfed and irrigated wheat (2010) (101)
- Policies drain the North China Plain: Agricultural policy and groundwater depletion in Luancheng County, 1949-2000 (2003) (98)
- Land and water productivity of wheat in the Western Indo-Gangetic Plains of India and Pakistan: a comparative analysis (2003) (87)
- Reducing carbon emissions through improved irrigation and groundwater management: A case study from Iran (2012) (87)
- Revitalizing Asia's irrigation: to sustainably meet tomorrow's food needs (2009) (82)
- Producing more food with less water in a changing world: assessment of water productivity in 10 major river basins (2011) (79)
- Indicators of Land and Water Productivity in Irrigated Agriculture (1999) (75)
- Water productivity: science and practice—introduction (2007) (72)
- Performance evaluation of the Bhakra Irrigation System, India, using remote sensing and GIS techniques (1999) (71)
- The Nile River Basin: water, agriculture, governance and livelihoods (2012) (69)
- Introduction to the Hindu Kush Himalaya Assessment (2019) (67)
- Hydronomic zones for developing basin water conservation strategies (2001) (64)
- Basin-wide water accounting based on remote sensing data: an application for the Indus Basin (2013) (64)
- Water use efficiency in agriculture: measurement, current situation and trends (2015) (61)
- An integrated community and ecosystem-based approach to disaster risk reduction in mountain systems (2019) (60)
- Water infrastructure for the Hindu Kush Himalayas (2014) (58)
- Performance assessment, irrigation service delivery and poverty reduction: benefits of improved system management (2007) (57)
- Integrated land and water management for food and environmental security. (2003) (56)
- Himalayan waters at the crossroads: issues and challenges (2015) (55)
- Improving water productivity in agriculture: editors\u2019 overview (2003) (55)
- Satellite Remote Sensing for Estimating Productivities of Land and Water (1999) (54)
- Improving Wheat Productivity in Pakistan: Econometric Analysis Using Panel Data from Chaj in the Upper Indus Basin (2004) (54)
- Spatial and temporal variability of water productivity in the Syr Darya Basin, central Asia (2004) (54)
- Water, poverty and gender: an overview of issues and policies (2003) (51)
- Farm level practices and water productivity in Zhanghe Irrigation System (2004) (50)
- WATPRO: A remote sensing based model for mapping water productivity of wheat (2010) (50)
- Yellow river comprehensive assessment: basin features and issues. (2003) (48)
- Issues of scale in water productivity in the Zhanghe irrigation system: implications for irrigation in the basin context (2004) (48)
- Fourier analysis of historical NOAA time series data to estimate bimodal agriculture (2007) (46)
- The global groundwater situation: opportunities and challenges (2001) (46)
- The Yellow River Basin: Water Accounting, Water Accounts, and Current Issues (2004) (43)
- The Global Social and Economic Consequences of Mountain Cryospheric Change (2019) (43)
- Importance of water consumption by perennial vegetation in irrigated areas of the humid tropics: evidence from Sri Lanka. (2001) (42)
- Water productivity in Zhanghe Irrigation System: issues of scale (2001) (42)
- A water accounting procedure to determine the water savings potential of the Fergana Valley (2012) (41)
- Can urbanization solve inter-sector water conflicts? Insight from a case study in Hebei Province, North China Plain (2007) (39)
- Remote sensing and hydrologic models for performance assessment in Sirsa Irrigation Circle, India (1999) (38)
- Performance assessment of irrigation water management in old lands of the Nile delta of Egypt (2011) (37)
- Podium: Projecting water supply and demand for food production in 2025 (2001) (36)
- Let it reign : the new water paradigm for global food security (2005) (36)
- Agricultural water productivity and savings: Policy lessons from two diverse sites in China (2007) (36)
- Adapting to intersectoral transfers in the Zhanghe Irrigation System, China: Part II: Impacts of in-system storage on water balance and productivity (2008) (35)
- Facing Climate Change by Securing Water for Food, Livelihoods and Ecosystems (2007) (34)
- Accounting for changes in water use and the need for institutional adaptation (2001) (34)
- Water for rural development: Background paper on water for rural development prepared for the World Bank (2001) (33)
- Planetary boundaries: The devil is in the detail (2009) (33)
- Advancing Regional and Transboundary Cooperation in the Conflict-Prone Hindu Kush–Himalaya (2017) (30)
- MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS OF ARTIFICIAL RECHARGE FROM BASINS1 (1989) (30)
- Water responses to urbanization (2007) (30)
- Operation of the Zhanghe Irrigation System (2001) (29)
- The Nile Basin: tapping the unmet agricultural potential of Nile waters (2010) (28)
- Gender Equality as a Key Strategy for Achieving Equitable and Sustainable Development in Mountains: The Case of the Hindu Kush–Himalayas (2014) (27)
- Increasing water productivity with improved N fertilizer management (2008) (27)
- Increasing water productivity in Agriculture (2013) (27)
- Growing more food with less water: how can revitalizing Asia's irrigation help? (2012) (25)
- The Hindu Kush Himalayan Monitoring and Assessment Programme: Action to Sustain a Global Asset (2016) (24)
- Improving basin water use in linked agricultural, ecological and urban systems: seeking new flow paths and avoiding dead ends. (2005) (24)
- Governing to Grow Enough Food without Enough Water—Second Best Solutions Show the Way (2010) (23)
- A scale-based framework to understand the promises, pitfalls and paradoxes of irrigation efficiency to meet major water challenges (2020) (23)
- Use and productivity of Egypt's Nile water (1998) (22)
- Adapting to intersectoral transfers in the Zhanghe Irrigation System, China. Part I. In-system storage characteristics (2008) (22)
- Integrated development and management of water resources for productive and equitable use in the Indrawati River Basin, Nepal (2002) (22)
- Farmer-based financing of operations in the Niger Valley irrigation schemes (1998) (21)
- Phases of river basin development: the need for adaptive institutions (2005) (21)
- Land degradation and water productivity in agricultural landscapes (2008) (21)
- Making sound decisions: information needs for basin water management (2005) (20)
- Water availability and its use in agriculture (2011) (19)
- Water Accounting to Assess Use and Productivity of Water: Evolution of a Concept and New Frontiers (2012) (18)
- Downstream Implications of Climate Change in the Himalayas (2016) (18)
- Water security for food security: findings of the Comprehensive Assessment for Sub-Saharan Africa. [This report draws directly from the book Water for food, water for life: a Comprehensive Assessment of Water Management in Agriculture] (2008) (17)
- Megatrends in Hindu Kush Himalaya: Climate Change, Urbanisation and Migration and Their Implications for Water, Energy and Food (2018) (17)
- Increasing productivity of water: A requirement for food and environmental security (2002) (17)
- Scarcity of water or scarcity of management? (2020) (16)
- The role of hydropower in South Asia’s energy future (2021) (16)
- Socio-economics and hydrological impacts of melamchi intersectoral and interbasin water transfer project, Nepal (2005) (16)
- ICIMOD's Strategy for Delivering High-quality Research and Achieving Impact for Sustainable Mountain Development (2013) (15)
- Addressing the unanswered questions in global water policy: a methodology framework (2003) (15)
- Learning from bright spots to enhance food security and to combat degradation of water and land resources (2008) (14)
- Optimal Irrigation Delivery System Design under Uncertainty (1992) (14)
- Nile Basin farming systems and productivity (2012) (13)
- A remote sensing-based approach for water accounting in the East Rapti River Basin, Nepal (2011) (13)
- Nile Basin Focal Project. Synthesis report (2009) (13)
- Microcomputer Model of Artificial Recharge Using Glover's Solution (1984) (11)
- Basin-wide water accounting using remote sensing data: the case of transboundary Indus Basin (2012) (11)
- Integrated management of water, forest and land resources in Nepal: Opportunities for improved livelihood (2005) (11)
- Low Water Productivity for Rice in Bihar, India—A Critical Analysis (2018) (11)
- Pathways to improving the productivity of water (2003) (11)
- Achieving food and environmental security: better river basin management for healthy coastal zones (2006) (10)
- Management turnover in the West Gandak Irrigation System, Nepal (1996) (10)
- Field-level water savings in the Zhanghe irrigation system and the impact at the system level. (2002) (10)
- Managing water from farmers' field to river basins: implications of scale (2002) (9)
- BENCHMARKING OF IRRIGATION AND DRAINAGE PROJECTS (2004) (9)
- Basin-level use and productivity of water (2003) (9)
- Irrigation and Drainage Systems Maintenance: Needs for Research and Action (2003) (9)
- Adaptive water resource management in the South Indian Lower Bhavani Project Command Area (2009) (9)
- Nile water and agriculture: past present and future (2012) (9)
- Water, food and development: the CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food (2009) (8)
- Yellow River Basin water accounting (2003) (7)
- Importance of evaporative depletion by non-crop vegetation in irrigated areas of the humid tropics (2000) (7)
- Linking water accounting analysis to institutions: synthesis of studies in five countries (2002) (7)
- Performance evaluation of the Bhakra Irrigation System, India, using remote sensing, hydrologic modeling and GIS techniques (1999) (6)
- Special Issue: Gender and Sustainable Development in Mountains—Transformative Innovations, Tenacious Resistances (2014) (6)
- Effective gender mainstreaming in water management for sustainable livelihoods: from guidelines to practice (2006) (6)
- Rice impact in Henan irrigation districts along the lower Yellow River reaches (2003) (6)
- Performance Measures for Irrigation Water Delivery (1990) (5)
- Editorial Mapping challenges for adaptive water management in Himalayan towns (2020) (5)
- Developing a science-based policy network over the Upper Indus Basin. (2021) (5)
- Meeting water needs for food and environmental security (2002) (5)
- Focus Issue: Food Security and Sustainable Development in Mountains (2018) (5)
- More crop per drop: considerations for precision irrigation in a basin context. (2000) (5)
- Integrating research in water, food and environment. Challenge Program on Water and Food background paper 4 (2002) (4)
- Trends and transitions in Asian irrigation: What are the prospects for the future? (2009) (4)
- Refining the positive and negative externalities of Taiwanese paddy rice production (2003) (4)
- Focus Issue: Mountain Forests and the SDGs (2017) (4)
- Management of water and agroecosystems in landscapes for sustainable food security (2013) (4)
- The Great Glacier and Snow-Dependent Rivers of Asia and Climate Change: Heading for Troubled Waters (2021) (4)
- Water use in agroecosystems (2013) (3)
- Combining urban and rural water use for a sustainable North China Plain (2003) (3)
- Focus Issue: Adaptation to Climate Change and Sustainable Mountain Development—Assessing Approaches and Understanding Implications for the Future (2019) (3)
- Implications of land and water degradation for food security, with particular reference to Asia and Africa (2003) (3)
- Managing Irrigation for Multiple Ecosystem Services – Some insights from the Comprehensive Assessment of Water Management in Agriculture (2006) (3)
- Socio-economics and hydrological impacts of intersectoral and interbasin water transfer decisions: Melamchi Water Transfer Project in Nepal (2002) (3)
- Spatial characterization of the Nile Basin for improved water management (2012) (3)
- Focus Issue: Implications of Out- and In-Migration for Sustainable Development in Mountains (2017) (3)
- Pumped out: basin closure and farmer adaptations in the Bhavani Basin in southern India (2009) (3)
- Water saving irrigation techniques in rice irrigation: A review of AWDI practices. (2001) (3)
- Water and the millennium development goals: meeting the needs of people and ecosystems (2000) (3)
- Developing share systems for sustainable water users associations in Nepal (1994) (3)
- Focus Issue: The Role of Culture in Transformation Towards Sustainable Development in Mountains (2019) (3)
- Institutional change in support of modernization and management transfer (1997) (3)
- Water security for food security: gaps, needs and potential for growth in Sub-Saharan Africa (2008) (2)
- Focus Issue: Vulnerability and Resilience to Natural Hazards and Disasters in Mountains (2015) (2)
- Focus Issue: Water Governance in Mountains (2013) (2)
- Identifying water saving opportunities: examples from three irrigation districts in China's Yellow River and Yangtze basins (2003) (2)
- Water and food security: background paper for the world water development report. Draft (2001) (2)
- MountainNotes Becomes MountainAgenda: MRD's Third Peer-reviewed Section (2013) (2)
- A brief history of peer-reviewed mountain journals: how platforms for knowledge relevant to sustainable mountain development emerged (2018) (2)
- The Hindu Kush Himalaya Call to Action: Sustaining Mountain Environments and Improving Livelihoods (2020) (2)
- CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food (CPWF) and Comprehensive Assessment of Water Management in Agriculture (CA) research priorities (2006) (2)
- Framework for performance assessment. (2005) (2)
- Impacts of water consumption by perennial vegetation in irrigated areas of the humid tropics: a case for rethinking traditional views of irrigation design, management and performance assessment (2001) (2)
- Hydropower as a catalyst for regional cooperation in South Asia (2021) (2)
- Realigning for Change: 8 Principles for Successful Change Management in Your Organization (1999) (2)
- Editors’ introduction to the IWRA Mentored Articles section (2022) (2)
- Mountain Research and Development Embarks on Its Fifth Decade (2021) (1)
- Operational and strategic performance assessment. (2005) (1)
- Accounting for water use and productivity: Examples from India and Sri Lanka (2000) (1)
- The use of hydronomic zones for interpreting irrigation performance in a basin context (2000) (1)
- Sources of growth in water productivity in Asian irrigation. (2001) (1)
- 5.4 GroundwaterRapporteur: David Molden. Participants: 120 (2001) (1)
- Focus Issue: Family Farming in Mountains—Institutional and Organizational Arrangements in the Context of Globalization (2014) (1)
- THE STATE-OF-THE-ART OF ECOAGRICULTURE (2006) (1)
- Water accounting at a river basin scale: The Nile basin case (2008) (1)
- Bright basins: do many bright spots make a basin shine? (2008) (1)
- An Interview with Dr. David J. Molden (2015) (1)
- About the coordinating lead authors, lead authors, and review editors (2013) (1)
- Improving livestock water productivity to help satisfy future human dietary requirements in developing countries (2006) (1)
- Tracing the history of the development and management of two irrigation systems in the terai of Nepal (2000) (1)
- MRD's approach: Ideally suited to support Future Earth research agenda in mountains (2015) (1)
- A mountain journal contributes to achieving Future Earth's vision (2016) (1)
- How much more water do we need? (2012) (1)
- Editorial (2015) (0)
- Growing enough food without enough water. (2011) (0)
- Improved agricultural water management in the Nile Basin: Interventions analysis—Hydronomic zoning (2009) (0)
- Editorial (2018) (0)
- Editorial (2017) (0)
- Changing Paradigm in Transboundary Landscape Management: A Retrospect from the Hindu Kush Himalaya (2021) (0)
- Editorial (2017) (0)
- Editorial (2014) (0)
- Diagnosing irrigation performance. (2005) (0)
- Conserving agrobiodiversity for sustainable food systems in the Hindu Kush Himalaya (2022) (0)
- Broadened Governance for MRD and Reviews of Climate Change Research in the HKH (2012) (0)
- Will there be enough water to grow enough food (2009) (0)
- Improved agricultural water management in the Nile Basin: intervention analysis (2009) (0)
- Open Access: Scarcity of water or scarcity of management? (2021) (0)
- Editorial (2015) (0)
- Part 2 Trends and scenarios : These chapters consider key water, food, livelihood, and environment drivers, trends, and societal responses to show the trajectory of water use and management for agriculture, review the situation today, and explore (2013) (0)
- Editorial (2016) (0)
- Managing paddy fields for ecosystem services: Some insights from the Comprehensive Assessment of Water Management (2006) (0)
- Sustainability of a warabandi system: SRS and GIS techniques to help identify issues (1997) (0)
- Water, Food and Environment: A Development Dilemma (2006) (0)
- Focus Issue: Modernization and Sustainable Development in Mountains (2016) (0)
- Editorial (2018) (0)
- Overview of research 2008 (2009) (0)
- Editorial (2019) (0)
- Irrigation Delivery Design with Parameter and Objective Uncertainty (1991) (0)
- Appendix: Typology of irrigation systems (2013) (0)
- PN59 Final Report. Nile Basin Focal Project. (2009) (0)
- Zhanghe irrigation system operation: a prerequisite to save water. (2002) (0)
- Availability Analysis of Irrigation Systems for Improved Management (1993) (0)
- Advances and research needs in irrigated system performance assessment. (2000) (0)
- Reflecting on water challenges of the past, present and future: an intergenerational perspective (2021) (0)
- WATER PRODUCTIVITY IN ZHANGHE IRRIGATION SYSTEM AT DIFFERENT SCALES (2001) (0)
- Editorial (2018) (0)
- Part 3 Integrating issues These chapters assess key concepts, trends, conditions, and response options for four cross-cutting issues: poverty, policies and institutions, ecosystems, and water productivity. (2013) (0)
- Securing water for food, livelihoods and ecosystems to face climate change: Research needs (2009) (0)
- Editorial (2015) (0)
- Part 1 Setting the scene Chapter 1 sets the scene, introduces the context of the assessment, and describes key concepts used throughout the assessment. (2013) (0)
- Keynote Address:Meeting Water Needs for Food and Environmental Security (2019) (0)
- Production systems and water productivity in the Nile Basin (2009) (0)
- Editorial (2016) (0)
- Editorial (2013) (0)
- Policy action 2 Fight poverty by improving access to agricultural water and its use (2013) (0)
- Data management for performance assessment. (2005) (0)
- 1 Learning from Bright Spots to Enhance Food Security and to Combat Degradation of Water and Land Resources 1 (2008) (0)
- Focus Issue: Mountain Biodiversity and Sustainable Development (2020) (0)
- Building resilient mountain communities : earthquake reconstruction in Dhungentar : final technical report (2018) (0)
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