Agri-water holds the key for many of the world's most profound development issues, if the sector is willing and able to rethink its responses. The sector is far from addressing these challenges and needs to reformulate its metrics of success along broad development objectives in light of the water, jobs, food and climate crises. Sector interventions and reforms need to be placed on a more outcome-oriented trajectory. This includes sustaining water resources through the irrigation sector, and attuning water services to changing agricultural needs. It requires a fundamental shift towards service delivery as the core focus of institutional reform in large-scale irrigation, a recognition of, and support to, farmer-driven irrigation development in diverse circumstances, and an action-oriented approach to bring this vision into practice at systems level. This paper presents the World Bank water strategy and points of emphasis for action, and calls for programmatic approaches to work towards this vision and transformation of the sector to meet today's and future challenges.

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在不断变化的条件下重新制定农业用水的价值主张*

如果该行业愿意并能够重新考虑其应对措施，那么农业水就是解决世界上许多最深刻的发展问题的关键。鉴于水、就业、粮食和气候危机，该行业远未解决这些挑战，需要根据广泛的发展目标重新制定其成功指标。需要将部门干预和改革置于更加注重结果的轨道上。这包括通过灌溉部门维持水资源，以及根据不断变化的农业需求调整供水服务。它需要从根本上转向将服务提供作为大规模灌溉制度改革的核心重点，承认并支持在不同情况下以农民为主导的灌溉发展，以及以行动为导向的方法，将这一愿景在系统层面付诸实践。本文介绍了世界银行的水资源战略和行动重点，并呼吁采取有计划的方法来实现该部门的这一愿景和转型，以应对当今和未来的挑战。