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1 Rukuni, M. 1986. The evolution of irrigation policy in Zimbabwe: 1900-1986. Paper presented at the Forum on Irrigation Systems and Applications, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA, 13-15 May 1986. 15p.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: P 761 Record No: H01618)
2 Perret, S.; Lavigne, M.; Stirer, N.; Yokwe, S.; Dikgale, K. S. 2003. The Thabina irrigation scheme in a context of rehabilitation and management transfer: prospective analysis and local empowerment. Final report. Department of Water Affairs and Forestry Project number: 2003-068. Montpellier, Cedex, France: CIRAD; Pretoria, South Africa: International Water Management Institute (IWMI); Pretoria, South Africa: University of Pretoria. 34p.
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H043097)
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3 Jain, B. H. 2002. Micro irrigation systems (MIS) for smallholders. In Pakistan Water Partnership (PWP). Second South Asia Water Forum, 14-16 December 2002, Islamabad, Pakistan. Proceedings, vol.1. Islamabad, Pakistan: Pakistan Water Partnership (PWP). pp.399-408.
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 333.91 G570 PAK Record No: H034162)
4 Kalu, I. 2003. An assessment of IDE-Nepal’s low cost drip irrigation technology. Poverty-Focused Smallholder Water Management: an IWMI research project supported by DFID. Final report document 2 of 9. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). vi, 77p.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: IWMI 631.7.1.1 G726 KAL Record No: H035324)
5 Tinsley, R. L. 2004. Developing smallholder agriculture: a global perspective. Brussels, Belgium: AgBe Publishing. 437p.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 631.72 G000 TIN Record No: H043510)
6 Bhatt, Yogesh; Bossio, Deborah; Enfors, E.; Gordon, L.; Kongo, V.; Kosgei, J. R.; Makurira, H.; Masuki, K.; Mul, M.; Tumbo, S. D. 2006. Smallholder system innovations in integrated watershed management (SSI): strategies of water for food and environmental security in drought-prone tropical and subtropical agro-ecosystems. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). 59p. (IWMI Working Paper 109; SSI Working Paper 1) [doi: https://doi.org/10.3910/2009.294]
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: IWMI 631.7 G100 BHA Record No: H039095)
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7 Haggblade, S.; Hazell, P. B. R. (Eds.) 2010. Success in African agriculture: lessons for the future. Baltimore, MD, USA: Johns Hopkins University Press, for the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). 436p.
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 338.1 G100 HAG Record No: H043413)
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(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 630 G744 SRI Record No: H043765)
9 Damayanthi, M. K. N.; Nanayakkara, V. K. 2008. Impact of the provincial council system on the smallholder agriculture in Sri Lanka. Colombo, Sri Lanka: Hector Kobbekaduwa Agrarian Research and Training Institute (HARTI). 156p. (HARTI Research Study 126)
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 630 G744 DAM, e-copy SF Record No: H043792)
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10 Namara, Regassa E.; Horowitz, L.; Nyamadi, B.; Barry, Boubacar. 2011. Irrigation development in Ghana: past experiences, emerging opportunities, and future directions. Accra, Ghana: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Ghana Strategy Support Program (GSSP). 43p. (GSSP Working Paper 0027)
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H043830)
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11 UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education; International Water Management Institute (IWMI). 2009. Smallholder System Innovations in Integrated Watershed Management, SSI Programme: strategies of water for food and environmental security in drought-prone tropical and subtropical agro-ecosystems, Tanzania and South Africa. Final report, 1 July - 30 June 2009. Delft, Netherlands: UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education; Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). 172p.
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI 333.91 G100 UNE Record No: H043875)
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12 UNEP. 2009. Water security and ecosystem services: the critical connection. Nairobi, Kenya: UNEP. 52p.
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 333.91 G000 UNE Record No: H043916)
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(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI Record No: H043957)
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Interest in African irrigation investment is growing. However, irrigation is not a monolithic concept, and the opportunities and risks can vary substantially by approach. To help provide an understanding of the variation, this paper builds on previous work to provide a detailed typology of irrigation systems as currently used in Ghana.
14 Pangare, V.; Karmakar, D. 2003. Impact on livelihoods: PRADAN's collaboration study of the 5% technology Purulia, West Bengal, India. Poverty-Focused Smallholder Water Management: an IWMI research project supported by DFID. Final report document 3 of 9. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). 83p. + appendices.
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI Record No: H043992)
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15 Pangare, V.; Choudhary, R. S. 2003. Impact on livelihoods: the Paal Revival Project, Alwar, Rajasthan, India. Poverty-Focused Smallholder Water Management: an IWMI research project supported by DFID. Final report document 4 of 9. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). 30p.
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI Record No: H043993)
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16 Badiger, S.; Sakthivadivel, R.; Aloysius, N.; Sally, H. 2003. Preliminary assessment of a traditional approach to rainwater harvesting and artificial recharging of groundwater in Alwar District, Rajasthan. Poverty-Focused Smallholder Water Management: an IWMI research project supported by DFID. Final report document 5 of 9. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). 18p.
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI Record No: H043994)
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17 Pangare, V. 2003. Impact on livelihoods: rejuvinating "Ooranis" Watershed Development Initiative, Ramnad District, Tamil Nadu, India. Poverty-Focused Smallholder Water Management: an IWMI research project supported by DFID. Final report document 7 of 9. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). 30p.
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI Record No: H043996)
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18 Pangare, V.; Negi, N. 2003. Impact on livelihoods: Seva Mandir's Integrated Watershed Development Initiative, Udaipur, Rajasthan, India. Poverty-Focused Smallholder Water Management: an IWMI research project supported by DFID. Final report document 8 of 9. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). 19p.
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI Record No: H044010)
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19 Hagos, Fitsum; Makombe, Godswill; Namara, Regassa; Awulachew, Seleshi Bekele. 2008. Does access to small scale irrigation promote market oriented production in Ethiopia? In Awulachew, Seleshi Bekele; Loulseged, Makonnen; Yilma, Aster Denekew (Comps.). Impact of irrigation on poverty and environment in Ethiopia: draft proceedings of the symposium and exhibition, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 27-29 November 2007. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). pp.262-281.
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H044080)
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The study examined the extent and nature of market oriented production in irrigated compared to rainfed systems in Ethiopia. By doing so the paper identifies the role of irrigation in market-oriented production, while at the same time highlighting the main constraints to market oriented development. Our results indicate that irrigation contributes significantly to increases in market participation, volume of marketed produce and, hence, income, by inducing shifts in farmers’ cropping mix. The impact of commercialization of production on household food security is not direct and immediate mainly because of failures in the food market. While irrigation enhances market production, there are series of factors that pose serious constraints to market production. Land size, oxen holding, access to market and means of transport were found to be important determinants of market oriented production calling for policy interventions in land markets, access to productive assets and infrastructure development and policy measures to improve the performance of agricultural markets. The study also found education has market promoting effect in terms of increasing the probability of participation and volume of sale. Increased support to education can, thus, help in the long-term to transform traditional subsistence agriculture into more market-oriented agriculture. Finally there are unobserved site specific effects, related to location and other covariates, which influence market participation and volume decisions.
20 Dejene, S.; Teshome, W.; Makombe, Godswill; Awulachew, Seleshi Bekele; Prasad, Krishna. 2008. Institutions, management practices and challenges of small-scale irrigation systems in Ethiopia: a case study of two modern smallholders irrigation systems in western Oromia, Ethiopia. In Awulachew, Seleshi Bekele; Loulseged, Makonnen; Yilma, Aster Denekew (Comps.). Impact of irrigation on poverty and environment in Ethiopia: draft proceedings of the symposium and exhibition, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 27-29 November 2007. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). pp.298-322.
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H044096)
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This paper examines the institutional arrangements that facilitate irrigation management and the present state of irrigation management and establishes where problems have occurred in the operation of Gibe-Lemu and Gambela-Terre Small-scale irrigation systems. The study employed the case study approach to tackle the research. Key informant and expert interview, desk review of different documents produced about the projects, group discussion, direct observation and structured interview schedule were used to collect data. The study proved the proposition that the government has uncritically supported the irrigation systems. Enabling legal system of land and water rights, strong woreda level state irrigation agency, support services (irrigation extension) and wellestablished water users associations through which purposes of irrigation are achieved were not adequately planned and put in place. These shortcomings undermined irrigation management, ultimately risked feasibility and sustainability of irrigated agriculture. Findings revealed poor record of accomplishment, in spite of the difference between the two systems, in managing water distribution in terms of the three most important performance indicators: adequacy, reliability and equity in water distribution. Water related conflicts are rampant but not settled yet. In addition, results indicated that irrigation had positively impacted irrigators’ livelihoods in terms of diversification and intensification of crop production, household income, housing and employment generation and this social effect of irrigation was significantly different between irrigation systems (due to difference in the institutional and socioeconomic context of the two irrigation systems) and locations within irrigation systems. Nonetheless, many irrigators did not maintain these positive changes for long. The constraints were scarcity and unreliability of water and management and socioeconomic problems. These, in turn, were mediated by lack of: a) clearly defined and well enforced institutions of land and water rights; b) technical problems in design and construction; c) inadequate institutional capacity of the local state irrigation agency to coordinate and support decentralized management of irrigation; d) policy related problems; e) inadequate organization of users for self management; and f) problematic social relation of power among water users. Finally, the paper draws a number of conclusions, using the theoretical notions like context, social requirement for use, social effects and social construction, about policy options and requirements in the readjustment of the surveyed irrigation systems and in the design of irrigation projects of these types.
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