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1 Jehangir, Waqar A.; Hussain, Intizar; Ashfaq, Muhammad; Mudasser, Muhammad. 2004. Poverty across districts in irrigated Punjab, Pakistan. In Jehangir, Waqar A.; Hussain, Intizar (Eds.). Poverty reduction through improved agricultural water management. Proceedings of the Workshop on Pro-poor Intervention Strategies in Irrigated Agriculture in Asia, Islamabad, Pakistan, 23-24 April 2003. Lahore, Pakistan: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). pp.31-45.
Poverty ; Indicators ; Irrigation systems ; Irrigation canals ; Households / Pakistan / Punjab / Upper Chaj Doab / Upper Jehlum Canal / Lower Chaj Doab / Rechna Doab / Lower Chenab Canal / Hakra Irrigation System
Call no: IWMI 631.7.3 G730 JEH Record No: H033299)
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2 Muddasser, Muhammad; Jehangir, Waqar A.; Hussain, Intizar; Ashfaq, Muhammad. 2004. Poverty across various canal commands in irrigated Punjab, Pakistan. In Jehangir, Waqar A.; Hussain, Intizar (Eds.). Poverty reduction through improved agricultural water management. Proceedings of the Workshop on Pro-poor Intervention Strategies in Irrigated Agriculture in Asia, Islamabad, Pakistan, 23-24 April 2003. Lahore, Pakistan: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). pp.71-87.
Poverty ; Indicators ; Irrigation canals ; Irrigation systems ; Households / Pakistan / Upper Chaj Doab / Lower Chaj Doab / Rechna Doab / Upper Jehlum Canal / Lower Jehlum Canal
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI 631.7.3 G730 JEH Record No: H043759)
Agricultural income occupies significant share of rural households’ income. Only ample and reliable supplies of surface irrigation water can guarantee its improvement. As poverty is inversely correlated with improvement in incomes, provided other factors remain the same, the policy makers can use irrigation as a tool in poverty reduction programs. The inequity in surface water distribution not only affects the rural households across different irrigations but also influences the distribution of income and poverty situation in different reaches of each irrigation system. Since long, it is asserted that households in the tail reach areas have relatively poor access to irrigation water as compared to those situated in the head and middle reach areas. It is evident that more distance from irrigation source brings more households in the poverty trap are located at the tail reach area. Here, the intensity of poverty would be higher than in the head and middle reach areas. This paper tests this hypothesis with results showing that poverty increases in the tail reach areas as compared to head and middle reach areas. This calls for the need to address current hurdles exercising equity and reliability in irrigation supplies in order to provide this vital input for increasing agricultural productivity of the tail end farm households.
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