Recognising the need for a coherent and accessible review of international irrigation research, this book examines the factors influencing water productivity in individual crops. It focuses on nine key plantation/industrial crops on which millions of people in the tropics and subtropics depend for their livelihoods.

Examines the factors influencing water productivity in nine key plantation crops in the context of increased pressure on water resources.

'An excellent publication both in terms of content and presentation ? No doubt [it] will be a great help for all those researchers and practitioners involved in improving water use productivity of an important but so far somewhat neglected group of crops.' Martin Smith, Experimental Agriculture