Introduction The annual natural flow of the Blue Nile is about 48 at the border and 52 Billion m3/year at the confluence with the White Nile. This is about 60% […]

introduction The project Spate Irrigation for Rural Economic Growth and Poverty Alleviation (SIREGPA) has started in January 2011 in four countries Sudan, Yemen, Ethiopia and Pakistan. It was a four […]

Africa to Asia and Back Again  : Testing Adaptation in Flood-Based Farming Systems Background on FBFSs The area under these systems in Africa and Asia is estimated at 20-35 million […]

Video : Introduction : Inland navigation is a missed potential to provide an eco-nomic and environmental friendly transport method in Su-dan and to neighboring countries. It can substitutes road transport in […]

connecting investments in large scale irrigation to gendered reallocations of water and  labor in the Eastern Nile basin Introduction : Ethiopia, Sudan and Egypt all have ambitious plans to increase […]

Introduction  The research project “Harnessing floods to enhance livelihoods and ecosystem services” is funded by the CGIAR research program on Water, Land and Ecosystems and it is being implemented in the Gash area in Sudan […]

Satellite based ICT for improved crop production in the Gezira irrigation scheme in Sudan The Satellite based ICT for improved crop production in the Gezira irrigation scheme is one year […]

Watershed Management and Groundwater Recharge in the Tekeze-Atbara River Basin Khalid Biro, Modathir Zaroug, Khalid Elnoor, Mohey Eldin Kabeer and Yasir A. Mohamed Summary The Hydraulics Research Center has been […]

The Grand Renaissance Ethiopian Dam (GERD) is under construction since 2011. According to information released by the press impounding of the reservoir is planned to start in 2015, to be […]

1.     Background on the Sediment Monitoring Program (1988 – date) The formerly Ministry of Irrigation and Water Resources has started an intensive sediment monitoring and management program in the Gezira […]