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(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H043173)
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Continuous upstream water development in the South Indian Krishna Basin has resulted in declining water availability downstream. Upstream water use is not adjusted to reflect rainfall fluctuations, and downstream farmers of the Nagarjuna Sagar irrigation project in the state of Andhra Pradesh are increasingly vulnerable to water supply shocks. Understanding the adaptive capacity of irrigated command areas to fluctuating water conditions is critical. This paper documents the wide range of adjustments adopted by managers and farmers in Nagarjuna Sagar during a period of fluctuating water availability (2000–2007). Primary and secondary data indicate managerial adjustments such as rotational and timely water supplies to meet critical water demands of standing crops. Farmers responded to changing conditions through: (a) crop diversification, (b) shifting calendars, (c) conjunctive use, (d) suspending cultivation, (e) sale of livestock, (f) out-migration, and (g) tampering with the irrigation system. Adaptive strategies are more diverse in the tail-end than in the head-end of the canal network and local adjustments are often uncoordinated and may degrade the resource base. A better understanding of the practices induced by changes in water availability is needed to refine current water allocation and management in large surface irrigation projects. Crop diversification, deficit irrigation in low-flow years, and conjunctive use are some of the practices to be promoted in a conducive agricultural environment.
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 304.25 G744 SRI Record No: H043714)
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3 Sri Lanka. Ministry of Environment. 2010. Information, education and communication strategy for climate change adaptation in Sri lanka - Forming part of the National climate change adaptation strategy (2011 - 2016) Battaramulla, Sri Lanka: Ministry of Environment. 43p.
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 304.25 G744 SRI Record No: H043715)
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4 Sri Lanka. Ministry of Environment. 2010. Sector vulnerability profile: water. Battaramulla, Sri Lanka: Ministry of Environment. 30p. + appendices. (Climate Change Vulnerability in Sri Lanka)
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 304.25 G744 SRI Record No: H043716)
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5 Sri Lanka. Ministry of Environment. 2010. Sector vulnerability profile: biodiversity and ecosystem services. Battaramulla, Sri Lanka: Ministry of Environment. 59p. + appendices. (Climate Change Vulnerability in Sri Lanka)
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 304.25 G744 SRI Record No: H043717)
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6 Sri Lanka. Ministry of Environment. 2010. Sector vulnerability profile: agriculture and fisheries. Battaramulla, Sri Lanka: Ministry of Environment. 60p. + appendices. (Climate Change Vulnerability in Sri Lanka)
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 304.25 G744 SRI Record No: H043718)
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7 Sri Lanka. Ministry of Environment. 2010. Sector vulnerability profile: health. Battaramulla, Sri Lanka: Ministry of Environment. 28p. + appendices. (Climate Change Vulnerability in Sri Lanka)
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 304.25 G744 SRI Record No: H043719)
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8 Sri Lanka. Ministry of Environment. 2010. Sector vulnerability profile: urban development, human settlements and economic infrastructure. Battaramulla, Sri Lanka: Ministry of Environment. 55p. + appendices. (Climate Change Vulnerability in Sri Lanka)
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 304.25 G744 SRI Record No: H043720)
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9 Peng, S. 2010. The water-saving irrigation strategy and effect in China. In University of Nebraska, Lincoln Office of Research and Economic Development. Proceedings of the 2010 Water for Food Conference, Lincoln, Nebraska, 2-5 May 2010. Lincoln, NE, USA: University of Nebraska. pp.69-71.
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 631.7 G000 UNI Record No: H043818)
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10 Sullivan, A.; Clayton, Terry; Harding, Amanda; Harrington, Larry W. 2014. Partnerships, platforms and power. In Harrington, Larry W.; Fisher, M. J. (Eds.). Water scarcity, livelihoods and food security: research and innovation for development. Oxon, UK: Routledge - Earthscan. pp.156-177. (Earthscan Studies in Water Resource Management)
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 333.91 G000 HAR, e-copy SF Record No: H046787)
11 Rogers, P. 2014. Theory of change. Florence, Italy: UNICEF Office of Research. 16p. (Methodological Briefs Impact Evaluation 2)
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H046814)
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(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H046877)
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13 Akter, N.; Azad, A. K.; Gurung, T. R. (Eds.) 2014. Proceedings of the Regional Expert Consultation Meeting on Adaptation to Climate Change Impact on Crop Production in SAARC member countries, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 23-24 November 2013. Dhaka, Bangladesh: SAARC Agriculture Centre (SAC). 309p.
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H047010)
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14 Arha, A.; Audichya, R.; Pant, D. C. 2014. Challenges in the urban and peri-urban transition zones and strategies for sustainable cities: experiences from selected cities. In Maheshwari, B.; Purohit, R.; Malano, H.; Singh, V. P.; Amerasinghe, Priyanie. (Eds.). The security of water, food, energy and liveability of cities: challenges and opportunities for peri-urban futures. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer. pp.71-85. (Water Science and Technology Library Volume 71)
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI Record No: H047021)
Like many other countries, India has experienced rapid urban growth in recent decades. This paper focuses on the changes taking place in the peri-urban area of India where urban development is occurring both within and around the indigenous villages. In India, most people move to the urban areas due to factors such as poverty, environmental degradation, food insecurity and lack of basic infrastructure and services in the rural areas. The number of towns has increased by 2,774 since the last census in 2001 and the level of urbanisation has increased from 28 % in the 2001 census to 31 % in the 2011 census while the proportion of rural population declined from 72 to 69 %. The urban–rural ratio for India in 2011 is around 45 meaning that for every 100 ruralites there are 45 urbanites in India. This increased level of urbanisation has changed the environment of the peri-urban areas of India. Urbanisation poses challenges in relation to the water, agriculture and energy in peri–urban areas of the cities of India. In the post-liberalisation period a process of change has been induced by the growth of the information technology (IT) sector leading to tremendous expansion of cities. With the expansion of these cities, changes have occurred that the surrounding villages witnessed; massive real estate development, a decrease in agricultural land and a year round shortage of water. Villages being absorbed into the cities has led to increasing competition over scarce water through industry, domestic use, farm houses and recreation parks. Urbanisation brings major changes in demand for agricultural products both from increases in urban populations and from changes in their diets and demands.
15 Prasad, J. D.; Gangaiah, B.; Chandra, K. S. (Eds.) 2015. Agricultural risk management. Hyderabad, India: Centre for Good Governance; Hyderabad, India: B.S. Publications. 384p. [Based on presentations made at the National Seminar on Agricultural Risk Management: Challenges and Strategies in Making Small and Marginal Farm holdings Sustainable and Profitable, Hyderabad, India, 3-4 January 2014]
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 630.68 G635 PRA Record No: H047068)
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16 Scoones, I. 2015. Sustainable livelihoods and rural development. Warwickshire, UK: Practical Action Publishing. 149p. (Agrarian Change and Peasant Studies 4)
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 307.1412 G000 SCO Record No: H047219)
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17 Lowenstein, W.; Shakya, M.; Hansen, M.; Gorkhali, S. 2015. Do the poor benefit from corporate social responsibility?: a theory-based impact evaluation of six community-based water projects in Sri Lanka. Bochum, Germany: Ruhr-University Bochum. Institute of Development Research and Development Policy (IEE). 85p. (IEE Working Papers Volume 210)
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 174.4 G744 LOW Record No: H047236)
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18 Foster, S.; Cherlet, J. 2014. The links between land use and groundwater: governance provisions and management strategies to secure a ‘sustainable harvest’ Stockholm, Sweden: Global Water Partnership (GWP) Secretariat. 20p. (GWP Perspectives Paper 6)
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H047315)
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Groundwater is an increasingly important resource for urban and rural potable water supply, irrigated agriculture, and industry, in addition to its natural environmental role of sustaining river flows and aquatic ecosystems. But major changes in land use that impact groundwater are taking place, as a consequence of population growth, increasing and changing food demands, and expanding biofuel cultivation. The link between land use and groundwater has long been recognised, but has not been widely translated into integrated policies and practices. This paper argues that a common understanding of groundwater–land and land–groundwater interaction is needed to facilitate cross-sector dialogue on governance needs and management approaches, targeted at sustaining water resources and enhancing land productivity. Sharply focused land-use management measures can produce significant groundwater quality and quantity benefits at relatively modest cost, and improving integrated governance will be crucial to ensuring an acceptable harvest of both food and groundwater from the available land. This paper outlines available technical tools to identify priority land areas for groundwater protection and appraises institutional and policy provisions to allow their application.
19 Gurdak, J. J.; Leblanc, M.; Aureli, A.; Resende, T. C.; Faedo, G.; Green, T. R.; Tweed, S.; Longuevergne, L.; Allen, D. M.; Elliott, J. F.; Taylor, R. G.; Conti, K. 2015. GRAPHIC position paper and call to action. Groundwater and climate change: mitigating the global groundwater crisis and adapting to climate change. Paris, France: UNESCO International Hydrological Programme (IHP). GRAPHIC - Groundwater Resources Assessment under the Pressures of Humanity and Climate Change Project. 16p.
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H047352)
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20 Vairavamoorthy, K.; Eckart, J.; Philippidis, G.; Tsegaye, S. 2014. Water and energy in the urban setting. In Jagerskog, A.; Clausen, T. J.; Holmgren, T.; Lexen, K. (Eds.). Energy and water: the vital link for a sustainable future. Stockholm, Sweden: Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI). pp.45-49. (SIWI Report 33)
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 333.79 G000 JAG Record No: H047359)
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