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(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 333.9162 G570 AHM Record No: H040934)
2 Rangachari, R.; Verghese, B. G. 2001. Making water work to translate poverty into prosperity: the Ganga – Brahmaputra – Barak region. In Ahmad, Q. K.; Biswas, A. K.; Rangachari, R.; Sainju, M. M. (Eds.). Ganges – Brahmaputra – Meghna region: a framework for sustainable development. Dhaka, Bangladesh: The University Press Limited. pp.81-142.
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 333.9162 G570 AHM Record No: H040936)
3 Cullet, P. 2009. Water law, poverty, and development: water sector reforms in India. New York, NY, USA: Oxford University Press. 241p.
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 333.91 G635 CUT Record No: H043410)
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4 Worldwatch Institute. 2010. 2010 State of the world: transforming cultures from consumerism to sustainability: a Worldwatch Institute report on progress toward a sustainable society. New York, NY, USA: W. W. Norton. 244p.
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H043864)
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5 Awulachew, Seleshi Bekele; Erkossa, Teklu; Balcha, Y. (Comps.) 2011. Irrigation and water for sustainable development: proceedings of the Second Forum, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 15-16 December 2008. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). 264p.
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H044259)
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6 Awulachew, Seleshi Bekele. 2011. Water-centered growth challenges, innovations and interventions in Ethiopia. In Awulachew, Seleshi Bekele; Erkossa, Teklu; Balcha, Y. (Comps.). Irrigation and water for sustainable development: proceedings of the Second Forum, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 15-16 December 2008. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). pp.18-42.
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Ethiopia’s economy and majority of the people’s livelihoods are dependent on agriculture. To develop the socioeconomy of Ethiopia and eradicate poverty, the policy and interventions should focus on agriculture as an entry point. In line with this, the government, bilateral and multilateral donors, NGOs and various institutions share the concepts and priorities identified in the “Plan for Accelerated and Sustained Development to End Poverty (PASDEP).” There are key challenges that need to be strongly addressed on transforming agriculture by overcoming a multitude of problems including biophysical and water management issues to help achieve the targets of PASDEP and sustainable socioeconomic growth in Ethiopia. This particular paper aimed at addressing the water management challenges that Ethiopia has faced in the past and is facing today, and to stimulate ideas on how to manage water resources to meet the growing needs for agricultural products, to help reduce poverty and food insecurity, and to show how water can be used as an important entry point to transform its socio-economy and contribute to sustainable development and the environment. The issues discussed will focus on innovations, policies and technologies that enable better investment and management decisions in water use, particularly focusing on agriculture and irrigation but also briefly looking into other water-related subsectors such as hydropower, water supply, watershed, drought and flood management as well as other biophysical aspects. It has also been attempted to make the paper suitable for decision-makers rather than scientists, in order to raise useful ideas for dialogue and further discussions, studies and researches. The paper, therefore, does not claim exhaustiveness. The target audiences of this paper are the people who make the investment and management decisions in water and water management for agriculture, and other subsectors - agricultural producers, water managers, investors, policymakers and civil society. The paper has benefited from the review of key policy and strategy documents of Ethiopia, outputs of various outcomes of research, civil society meetings and workshops, data and information available in government institutions, and global knowledge. The key major issues that are discussed in the paper include the following: Socioeconomic development challenges of Ethiopia, viewed from a water resources perspective., The water resources endowment, development extent, potentials and economic/socioeconomic development linkages., Water-related innovations and agriculture., Water-related interventions in various agro-ecologies., Policy and strategy actions needed. This paper should also be viewed with other components such as river basin growth pole/corridor concept, institutional reform and research capacity building. It focuses on analyzing key problems and associated interventions, and can be applicable in the contexts of the current situation and the future possible reform under growth zones that can be taken as plausible pathways for development.
7 Sabatier, P. A. 2007. Theories of the policy process. 2nd ed. Boulder, CO, USA: Westview Press. 344p.
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 320.6 G000 SAB Record No: H044300)
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8 Mekong River Commission Secretariat. 2002. Basin development plan: planning process. Draft working paper. Phnom Penh, Cambodia: Mekong River Commission Secretariat. 108p. + annexes.
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: P 8094 Record No: H044510)
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9 Xenarios, Stefanos; Eguavoen, I.; McCartney, Matthew. 2012. A comparative socio-economic analysis of water storage schemes in Sub-Saharan Africa. Paper presented at the 2nd International Comparative Water Studies Workshop, Bonn, Germany, 20-21 January 2012. 20p.
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The recent interest of international funding organizations for financing water storage schemes in Sub-Saharan Africa as a response to anticipated climate change has revived the debate on more appropriate methodologies for welfare assessments. Increasingly, water storage construction is moving away from single objectives like simple irrigation or hydropower production to multiple purpose systems. The inclusion of other socially and environmental related aspects like poverty alleviation and sustenance of minimum ecological services becomes a highly demanding objective for most of the donors. The multi-objective purpose of water storage questions in turn impacts the scaling of a storage scheme as well as the effectiveness of larger versus smaller technical options.The prevailing monetary assessments of direct costs and benefits appear inefficient to capture the diversity of multi-objective targets and the scaling issue by often indicating sub-optimal solutions. The current study proposes an alternative methodological approach based on an outranking methodology equipped with a set of preference conditions and weighting indices. Though based on the underlying principle of economic efficiency, the approach avoids some crucial weaknesses of the mainstream analysis by giving higher attention to a wider range of criteria. The method was tested in six case studies in Ethiopia and Ghana where representative small and large water storage types of Sub-Saharan Africa (small dams, large dams, wells, river diversion, ponds and soil moisture) were assessed in comparison to each other and then evaluated with the help of ethnographic findings.
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 333.91 G000 KIT Record No: H044804)
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(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H044833)
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Agricultural cooperatives are important rural organizations supporting livelihood development and poverty reduction. In recognition of such roles of cooperatives, Ethiopia showed a renewed interest in recent years in promoting cooperative sector development. However, there is lack of a wider and systematic analysis to produce sufficient empirical evidence on the livelihood development and poverty reduction impacts of cooperatives in the country. Using a matching technique on rural household income, saving, agricultural input expenditure and asset accumulation as indicator variables, this paper evaluates the livelihood impact of agricultural cooperatives in Sidama zone, Ethiopia. The finding shows that cooperatives improved the livelihoods of service user farmers through impacting better income, more savings and reduced input costs. In view of such evidence, further promotion, deepening and supporting of agricultural cooperatives is recommended.
12 Cai, Xueliang; Molden, David; Mainuddin, M.; Sharma, Bharat; Ahmad, M. D.; Karimi, Poolad. 2012. Producing more food with less water in a changing world: assessment of water productivity in 10 major river basins. In Fisher, M.; Cook, Simon (Eds.). Water, food and poverty in river basins: defining the limits. London, UK: Routledge. pp.280-300.
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI Record No: H044848)
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(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 363.34 G000 CEN Record No: H044954)
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14 Allan, J. A. T. 2013. Food-water security: beyond water resources and the water sector. In Lankford, B.; Bakker, K.; Zeitoun, M.; Conway, D. (Eds.). Water security: principles, perspectives and practices. Oxon, UK: Routledge. pp.321-335. (Earthscan Water Text Series)
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 333.91 G662 IND Record No: H046282)
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 551.483 G744 RAN Record No: H046315)
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17 Polman, F. J.; Samad, M.; Thio, K. S. 1982. A demonstration of resource based socio-economic planning in Matara district. ARTI-Wageningen University Research Project in Agricultural Planning. Report 1 in Regional Planning for Agricultural Development in Sri Lanka. Colombo, Sri Lanka: Agrarian Research and Training Institute (ARTI). 247p. (ARTI Research study 47)
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 338.1 G744 POL Record No: H046342)
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18 Damayanthi, M. K. N.; Gamage, D. 2006. Impact of the cease-fire agreement on socio-economic development in the villages adjacent to the conflict zone in Sri Lanka: a case study of three villages in the Anuradhapura District. Colombo, Sri Lanka: Hector Kobbekaduwa Agrarian Research and Training Institute (HARTI). 61p. (HARTI Research Study 116)
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 338.9 G744 DAM Record No: H046404)
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