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On The Waterfront: Water Distribution, Technology And Agrarian Change In A South Indian Canal Irrigation System
Series: Wageningen University Water Resources Series. This book analyses the struggle over water in a large-scale irrigation system in Raichur District, Karnataka, South India. It looks at water control as a simultaneously technical, managerial and socio-political process. The triangle of accommodation of different categories of farmers, irrigation department officials and local politicians, involving water, votes, money, employment, credit and harassment, is documented. The book shows that the physical infrastructure, notably the division structures, are signposts of struggle, expressing the balance of power between farmers and the irrigation department, and that between head- and tail-end farmers. It concludes with a discussion of irrigation reform efforts in India: reasons for the very slow transformation of the sector, and how a more integrated perspective on irrigation could provide directions for the way forward.
Blood and Water
The Indus basin was once an arid pastoral watershed, but by the second half of the twentieth century, it had become one of the world’s most heavily irrigated and populated river basins. Launched under British colonial rule in the nineteenth century, this irrigation project spurred political, social, and environmental transformations that continued after the 1947 creation of the new states of India and Pakistan. In this first large-scale environmental history of the region, David Gilmartin focuses on the changes that occurred in the basin as a result of the implementation of the world’s largest modern integrated irrigation system. This masterful work of scholarship explores how environmental transformation is tied to the creation of communities and nations, focusing on the intersection of politics, statecraft, and the environment.
Advancements in IIMI's Research 1989-91
Financial and human resources : irrigation investment trends in Sri Lanka, implication for policy and research in irrigation management;organizational dynamics in a corporate-type irrigation organization, and analysis of the national irrigation administration in the Philippines;system turnover to farmers in the Philippines;management training through special awards;reinforcing management at system level: a comparativestudy of farmer-managed systems in northern Pakistan;irrigation management for crop diversication;studies on rice-based irrigation systems management in Bangladesh;emerging issues and trends:issues in conjunctive management of groundwater and surface irrigation systems in Punjab, Pakistan, an initial assessment;salinity in Punjab watercourse commands and irrigation systems operations;application of mathematicalmodels for simulation of canal operations at Kirindi Oya, Sri Lanka, preliminary results;towards better performance:performance of new irrigation settlement schemes, a case study of kirindi Oya, Sri Lanka;performance of secondary canals in Pakistan Punjab, research on equity andvariability at the distributary level.
Effectiveness of nongovernment organizations in developing local irrigation organizations: A case study from Sri Lanka
This paper reports on a detailed sociological study carried out as the NGO (or change agent) was completing three-year projects in two sites, Nagadeepa and Pimburettewa. The study describes the change agent's strategy, and analyzes its impact and the perceptions of farmers and government officials regarding its impact. The case study is placed in a wider context, in terms of both the participatory management policy of the Government of Sri Lanka, and the lessons learned that are relevant for NGOs working in other countries as well.
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Drip Irrigation for Agriculture
Initially associated with hi-tech irrigated agriculture, drip irrigation is now being used by a much wider range of farmers in emerging and developing countries. This book documents the enthusiasm, spread and use of drip irrigation systems by smallholders but also some disappointments and disillusion faced in the global South. It explores and explains under which conditions it works, for whom and with what effects. The book deals with drip irrigation 'behind the scenes', showcasing what largely remain 'untold stories'. Most research on drip irrigation use plot-level studies to demonstrate the technology’s ability to save water or improve efficiencies and use a narrow and rather prescriptiv...
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