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Resources

This page contains the resources available to our website visitors in electronic form. Content includes publications, reports, proceedings, handouts, brochures, and sub-websites from our communications, research areas, and more.

Publications

earn more about our organization by viewing our overview brochure and reading our strategic plans, conference proceedings and annual reports. Archived publications are available in DigitalCommons.

2025 Annual Report

2025 Annual Report

DWFI Overview Brochure

DWFI Overview Brochure

Past Annual Reports

Policy Briefs

Wireless Communications

07/01/2018

Policy Briefs

Drones in Agriculture

06/01/2018

Policy Briefs

Soil Moisture Probes

06/01/2018

Policy Briefs

Paid To Pump Policy Brief

Policy Briefs

Reports and Working Papers

Financing Smallholder Irrigation - An Examination of Not-for-Profit Financing

12/17/2025

Reports and Working Papers

Primary Water Rights Systems in the United States

09/23/2025

Reports and Working Papers

Irrigation and Yield Stability

08/06/2025

Reports and Working Papers

Opportunities and Research Gaps for Promoting Irrigation and Mechanization Markets in Niger

07/08/2025

Reports and Working Papers

Commonly Irrigated Crops in the US

05/22/2025

Reports and Working Papers

Common Irrigation Methods in the US

05/22/2025

Reports and Working Papers

Agricultural Water Use in the United States

06/30/2023

Reports and Working Papers

Agricultural Water Use Trends in the United States

06/30/2023

Reports and Working Papers

Groundwater Transfers in Nebraska

07/06/2023

Reports and Working Papers

Mapping and analysis of the business ecosystem for smallholder irrigation in Rwanda

04/29/2022

Reports and Working Papers

Rapid Scoping for Water Market Readiness

09/28/2021

Reports and Working Papers

Catalyzing Farmers’ Irrigation Investments: Recommendations to Scale Sustainable Rural Transformation

05/11/2020

Reports and Working Papers

Past, present and future of irrigation on the U.S. Great Plains Past, present and future of irrigation on the U.S. Great Plains

01/31/2020

Reports and Working Papers

2019 Nebraska Water Productivity Report

11/01/2019

Reports and Working Papers

Student Support Program Outputs, Outcomes and Impacts Report

10/01/2019

Reports and Working Papers

Agricultural Water Transfers in the Western United States

01/01/2019

Reports and Working Papers

The Future of Groundwater in California

01/01/2018

Reports and Working Papers

Pathways to Increasing Farmer-led Investments in Sustainable Agricultural Water Management in sub-Saharan Africa

01/01/2017

Reports and Working Papers

Nebraska's Natural Resources Districts

03/01/2015

Reports and Working Papers

Yield gap analysis

01/01/2015

Reports and Working Papers

Institute Resources

DWFI Writing Style Guide

03/01/2026

Institute Resources

Water for Food Design Style Guide

04/15/2026

Institute Resources

DWFI Strategic Direction - 2024-2028

09/30/2024

Institute Resources

Agricultural Groundwater Transfers in Nebraska

09/01/2022

Institute Resources

Additional Resources

Request Publications

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Identity Standards

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