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1 Dissanayake-Wanigaratne, R. 1984. Subsistence maintenance and agricultural transformation on the frontier in Sri Lanka: The Kaltota Irrigated Settlement Project. Thesis submitted to the Graduate School of the University of Wisconsin-Madison for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. 376p.
Irrigation programs ; Development projects ; Rice ; Tenancy ; Land rights ; Land tenure ; Labor ; Employment ; Income ; Policy ; Legislation / Sri Lanka / Kaltota Project / Mahaweli Project
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: D 631.7 G744 DIS Record No: H040434)
2 Agarwal, R. 2007. Women farmers in China’s commercial agrarian economy. Economic and Political Weekly, 42(42): 4261-4267.
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: P 7993 Record No: H040895)
3 Wegerich, K. 2006. Groundwater institutions and management problems in the developing world. In Tellam, J. H.; Rivett, M. O.; Israfilov, R. G. (Eds.). Urban groundwater management and sustainability: proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on Management and Sustainable Development of Urban groundwater Systems, Baku, Azerbaijan, 6-15 August 2004. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer. pp.447-458. ( NATO Science Series IV - Earth and Environmental Sciences, vol. 74)
Groundwater management ; Water rights ; Land rights ; Water use ; Social aspects ; Urban areas ; Rural areas ; Developing countries
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H043118)
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Based on a literature review, the paper analyses groundwater management problems in the urban and the agricultural setting in the developing world. It is argued that in both settings groundwater rights can neither be established nor enforced. Groundwater rights are based on land rights and the economic capacity of the user to follow the falling groundwater table. The connection of groundwater access rights to land rights and economic capacity may cause social instability and could lead to further depletion of the resource.
4 Eguavoen, I.; Derib, S. D.; Deneke, T. T.; McCartney, Matthew; Otto, B. A.; Billa, S. S. 2012. Digging, damming or diverting?: small-scale irrigation in the Blue Nile Basin, Ethiopia. Water Alternatives, 5(3):678-699.
Small scale systems ; Irrigation schemes ; Irrigation scheduling ; River basins ; Water storage ; Water rights ; Land rights ; Land use ; Dams ; Wells ; Ponds ; Plains ; Case studies ; Water user associations ; Water allocation ; Agricultural production ; Farmer-led irrigation ; Gender / Ethiopia / Blue Nile Basin
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H045113)
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https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H045113.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H045113.pdf
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The diversity of small-scale irrigation in the Ethiopian Blue Nile basin comprises small dams, wells, ponds and river diversion. The diversity of irrigation infrastructure is partly a consequence of the topographic heterogeneity of the Fogera plains. Despite similar social-political conditions and the same administrative framework, irrigation facilities are established, used and managed differently, ranging from informal arrangements of households and 'water fathers' to water user associations, as well as from open access to irrigation schedules. Fogera belongs to Ethiopian landscapes that will soon transform as a consequence of large dams and huge irrigation schemes. Property rights to land and water are negotiated among a variety of old and new actors. This study, based on ethnographic, hydrological and survey data, synthesises four case studies to analyse the current state of small-scale irrigation. It argues that all water storage options have not only certain comparative advantages but also social constraints, and supports a policy of extending water storage 'systems' that combine and build on complementarities of different storage types instead of fully replacing diversity by large dams.
5 Zwarteveen, M.; Ahmed, S.; Gautam, S. R. (Eds.) 2012. Diverting the flow: gender equity and water in South Asia. New Delhi, India: Zubaan. 623p.
Gender ; Equity ; Water resources ; Water management ; Water scarcity ; Water governance ; Water law ; Water policy ; Water rights ; Land rights ; Drinking water ; Water rates ; Water supply ; Sanitation ; Wastewater irrigation ; Irrigation systems ; Technology ; Poverty ; Wells ; Political ecology ; Arsenic ; Dams ; Natural resources management ; Farming ; Women's participation ; Women's organizations ; Non governmental organizations ; Water user associations ; Social aspects ; Labor ; Case studies / South Asia / India / Sri Lanka / Bangladesh / Nepal / Maharashtra / Uttar Pradesh / Andhra Pradesh / Gujarat
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 305.4 G570 ZWA Record No: H045637)
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6 Chu, J. M. 2012. A blue revolution for Zambia?: large-scale irrigation projects and land and water 'grabs' In Allan, T.; Keulertz, M.; Sojamo, S.; Warner, J. (Eds.). Handbook of land and water grabs in Africa: foreign direct investment and food and water security. London, UK: Routledge. pp.207-220.
Irrigation projects ; Land acquisitions ; Land rights ; Water resources ; Agricultural development ; Economic growth ; Case studies ; Public-private cooperation / Zambia
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 333.91 G000 ALL Record No: H045680)
7 Ismar, J. 2012. How to govern the global rush for land and water. In Allan, T.; Keulertz, M.; Sojamo, S.; Warner, J. (Eds.). Handbook of land and water grabs in Africa: foreign direct investment and food and water security. London, UK: Routledge. pp.273-285.
Land acquisitions ; Land rights ; Land tenure ; Water management ; Water rights ; Human rights ; Resource management ; Governance ; Investment ; Agricultural production ; Food security / Africa
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 333.91 G000 ALL Record No: H045685)
8 Greco, E. 2012. Struggles and resistance against land dispossession in Africa: an overview. In Allan, T.; Keulertz, M.; Sojamo, S.; Warner, J. (Eds.). Handbook of land and water grabs in Africa: foreign direct investment and food and water security. London, UK: Routledge. pp.456-468.
Land acquisition ; Foreign investment ; Land rights ; Land reform ; Non governmental organizations ; Social aspects / Africa
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 333.91 G000 ALL Record No: H045695)
9 Robbins, P. (Ed.) 2012. Political ecology: a critical introduction. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell. 288p.
Political ecology ; Social change ; Environmental management ; Conflict ; Economic aspects ; Land degradation ; Land change ; Land rights ; Biodiversity ; Agricultural development
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 304.2 G000 ROB Record No: H045899)
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10 Farooqi, Hira; Wegerich, Kai. 2015. Institutionalizing inequities in land ownership and water allocations during colonial times in Punjab, Pakistan. Water History, 7(1):131-146. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12685-014-0119-1]
Land ownership ; Land rights ; Water allocation ; Water rights ; Corporate culture ; Irrigation canals ; Irrigation systems ; Natural resources management / Pakistan / Punjab
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H046766)
11 Erkossa, Teklu; Hagos, Fitsum; Lefore, Nicole. 2014. Proceedings of the Workshop on Flood-based Farming for Food Security and Adaption to Climate Change in Ethiopia: Potential and Challenges, Adama, Ethiopia, 30-31 October 2013. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). 178p. [doi: https://doi.org/10.5337/2014.233]
Flood water ; Flood irrigation ; Food security ; Climate change ; Adaptation ; Irrigation schemes ; Irrigation systems ; Spate irrigation ; Livestock products ; Crop production ; Siltation ; Arid zones ; Semiarid zones ; Community involvement ; Water rights ; Water resources ; Water harvesting ; Water use ; Land rights ; Poverty ; Households ; Living standards ; Nutrition ; Malnutrition ; Drought ; Farmers ; Indicators ; Sedimentation ; Canals ; Discharges ; Models ; Surface runoff ; Calibration ; Rainfed farming ; Agriculture ; Technology transfer / Africa / Ethiopia / Africa South of Sahara / Oromia Region / Tigray Region / Keleta River / Boru River
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI Record No: H046909)
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12 Williams, Timothy Olalekan. 2016. Reconciling food and water security objectives of MENA [Middle East and North Africa] and sub-Saharan Africa: is there a role for large-scale agricultural investments? Food Security, 7(6):1199-1209. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12571-015-0508-z]
Food security ; Water security ; Water resources ; Land resources ; Suburban agriculture ; Living standards ; Foreign investment ; Business management ; Models ; Rural areas ; Farmland ; Irrigated land ; Land rights ; Water rights ; Environmental impact ; Economic aspects ; Social aspects ; Ecosystems / Africa South of Sahara / Middle East / North Africa
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H047274)
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The attainment of food and water security rank high on the agendas of governments in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region and sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Although the objectives are similar, the underlying drivers, resource endowments and opportunities for achieving them are different. Differences between two regions in natural resource endowment and investment capital stock can, in theory, lead to mutually beneficial trade to achieve desired objectives. Concerns about the recent food crises coupled with the disparity in land and water endowment and investable capital between MENA and SSA have led in recent years to investment in agricultural land in the latter by a number of MENA countries with the aim of producing food. At the same time, many SSA countries seek these investments to infuse capital, technology and know-how into their agricultural sector to improve productivity, food security and rural livelihoods. However, these recent foreign direct agricultural investments have to date performed poorly or have been abandoned without achieving the initial objectives of setting them up. Based on research conducted in selected sub-Saharan countries, this paper analyses the reasons for the failure of these investments. It then reviews a few successful agricultural investments by private sector companies with a long history of operation in SSA. Juxtaposing lessons distilled from failed and successful case studies, the paper argues that large-scale agricultural investments that take advantage of this accumulated knowledge are needed and do have a critical role to play. Such investments, when they also incorporate ecosystems management practices and smallholder inclusive business models in their operations, can serve as appropriate instruments to reconcile the food and water security objectives of both the MENA region and SSA, while promoting sustainable intensification of agriculture and improved rural livelihoods in SSA.
13 van Koppen, Barbara. 2015. Towards voluntary guidelines for people-centred land-water tenure: the untapped synergies between rights-based land and water governance. In Global Water Partnership (GWP); International Land Coalition (ILC); International Water Management Institute (IWMI). Proceedings of the Joint GWP-ILC-IWMI Workshop on Responding to the Global Food Security Challenge Through Coordinated Land and Water Governance, Pretoria, South Africa, 15-16 June 2015. Stockholm, Sweden: Global Water Partnership (GWP); Rome, Italy: International Land Coalition (ILC); Pretoria, South Africa: International Water Management Institute (IWMI) 8p.
Water rights ; Water governance ; Water resources ; Water allocation ; Water law ; Multiple use ; Land tenure ; Land rights ; Human rights ; Guidelines ; Domestic water
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H047290)
http://www.gwp.org/Global/About%20GWP/Publications/Proceedings%20papers%20Pretoria%20June%202015/2_Barbara_van_Koppen_final.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H047290.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H047290.pdf
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Water is absent in the ‘Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of Food Security’ (FAO, 2012). This paper explored whether and how the people-centred approaches and the human rights values that underpin this document can be better applied in the water sector and how more recognition of the land-water interface can support this. This is elaborated for participatory approaches in which people, especially the rural and peri-urban poor, better oversee the many interdependencies of natural resources and their multiple uses than the compartmentalised public sector. Further, human rights values are discussed for the development of land-bound water infrastructure, tracing the upcoming debates about a core minimum water service level that includes small-scale productive uses. Lastly, entitlements to land and to naturally available water resources are compared. While the water sector should replicate the current strong recognition of customary land rights to customary and informal water entitlements, an important difference is discussed as well: states are water regulators in a public interest. In this capacity, they should also to protect water entitlements by the vulnerable in negotiations about large-scale land-based investments through procedural and water prioritization arrangements.
14 Williams, Timothy Olalekan; Sidibe, Yoro. 2015. Can current land and water governance systems promote sustainable and equitable large-scale agricultural investments in sub-Saharan Africa? In Global Water Partnership (GWP); International Land Coalition (ILC); International Water Management Institute (IWMI). Proceedings of the Joint GWP-ILC-IWMI Workshop on Responding to the Global Food Security Challenge Through Coordinated Land and Water Governance, Pretoria, South Africa, 15-16 June 2015. Stockholm, Sweden: Global Water Partnership (GWP); Rome, Italy: International Land Coalition (ILC); Pretoria, South Africa: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). 9p.
Water governance ; Water rights ; Land tenure ; Land acquisitions ; Land investments ; Land rights ; Agriculture ; Farmland ; Institutions ; Equity ; Sustainability ; Property rights ; Natural resources ; Food security ; Living standards / Africa South of Sahara / Ghana / Mali
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H047292)
http://www.gwp.org/Global/About%20GWP/Publications/Proceedings%20papers%20Pretoria%20June%202015/3_Tim_WIlliams_final.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H047292.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H047292.pdf
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Ever since the oil, financial and food crises of 2008, sub-Saharan Africa has witnessed a marked increase in large-scale investment in agricultural land. The drivers of this investment are varied and include growing food, water and energy insecurity as well as social and economic interests of investors and recipient countries. The shape of these investments and their eventual outcomes are equally influenced by the existing land and water governance systems in the host countries. Based on fieldlevel research conducted in Ghana and Mali which covered six large-scale agricultural investments, this paper analyzes the current land and water governance systems in these two countries through the lens of land and water acquisition and initial outcomes. It highlights missed opportunities for sustainable and equitable large-scale agricultural land investments due to uncoordinated governance systems and failure to rigorously apply detailed rules and regulations that are already in place. It offers suggestions for revamping land and water governance to promote large-scale investments that will lead to equitable distribution of benefits and sustainable management of natural resources.
15 Niasse, M.; Cherlet, J. 2014. Coordinating land and water governance: an essential part of achieving food security. Stockholm, Sweden: Global Water Partnership (GWP) Secretariat. 16p. (GWP Perspectives Paper 7)
Water governance ; Land management ; Food security ; Water resources ; Virtual water ; Water acquisitions ; River basin management ; Land acquisitions ; Land rights ; Farmland ; Land use ; Crop production ; Investment ; Gender ; Women
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H047314)
http://www.gwp.org/Global/ToolBox/Publications/Perspective%20Papers/07_perspectives_paper_land_water_governance.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H047314.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H047314.pdf
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Feeding the world’s growing population and finding the land and water to grow enough food continues to be a basic and sizeable challenge. It is an enormous task because the increase in food production required to meet future needs may have to be achieved with fewer land and water resources. Yet water resources and land use planning and management are mostly disconnected. With this paper we wish to initiate the debate to coordinate land and water governance for the sake of global food security. We argue that the new geopolitics of land and water calls for a more strategic, governance-level response in which land and water are reconnected and the political dimension of the modalities of their allocation and use are fully recognised.
16 Nairesiae, E.; Sanyanga, R. 2015. OXFAM global land and water programmes. In Global Water Partnership (GWP); International Land Coalition (ILC); International Water Management Institute (IWMI). Proceedings of the Joint GWP-ILC-IWMI Workshop on Responding to the Global Food Security Challenge Through Coordinated Land and Water Governance, Pretoria, South Africa, 15-16 June 2015. Stockholm, Sweden: Global Water Partnership (GWP); Rome, Italy: International Land Coalition (ILC); Pretoria, South Africa: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). 5p.
Non governmental organizations ; Water governance ; Water resources ; Land resources ; Land rights ; Gender ; Women / Africa / Pakistan / Vietnam / Myanmar / Cambodia / Limpopo River Basin / Mekong Region / Indus basin
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H047318)
http://www.gwp.org/Global/About%20GWP/Publications/Proceedings%20papers%20Pretoria%20June%202015/5_Oxfam_text_final.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H047318.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H047318.pdf
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17 Kafakoma, R. 2015. Safeguarding women land and water rights through establishment of land monitoring and recording systems: emerging lessons from Malawi. In Global Water Partnership (GWP); International Land Coalition (ILC); International Water Management Institute (IWMI). Proceedings of the Joint GWP-ILC-IWMI Workshop on Responding to the Global Food Security Challenge Through Coordinated Land and Water Governance, Pretoria, South Africa, 15-16 June 2015. Stockholm, Sweden: Global Water Partnership (GWP); Rome, Italy: International Land Coalition (ILC); Pretoria, South Africa: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). 9p.
Gender ; Women ; Empowerment ; Land rights ; Water rights ; Water governance ; Land access ; Land tenure ; Land administration ; Landlessness ; Land policies ; Foreign investment ; Farmland / Malawi / Ntcheu District / Ganya
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H047322)
http://www.gwp.org/Global/About%20GWP/Publications/Proceedings%20papers%20Pretoria%20June%202015/9_Robert_Kafakoma_final.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H047322.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H047322.pdf
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Land and water is central to the social and economic development of Malawi where 85 percent of its population rely on subsistence agriculture. The high population estimated at 16.0 million people coupled with high poverty levels against a total land area of about 9.4 hectares land and water are increasingly becoming scarce resulting into increased levels of conflicts more especially at community levels. Over the past 20 years the country has witnessed increased levels of land conflicts amongst the communities and between communities and large scale land investors. The increased levels of conflicts between the communities themselves and with the large scale investors are all linked to access to land and water which is becoming scarce. This defines the nature and extent of the challenges that face the country as it struggles to address the overarching problems of poverty eradication and deprivation. Malawi adopted a comprehensive land policy in 2002 however the adoption has not been matched with equally progressive supportive land legislations. The delays in approving the new land laws to support the implementation of the policy has become a recipe for increased landlessness, intergenerational land fragmentation, insecure land and water tenure regime, land concentration, inequalities in land and water access, land grabbing, lack of transparency and corruption in land administration and malpractices. With support from the International Land Coalition (ILC), Training Support for Partners (TSP) a local organization in Malawi is implementing a project which is aiming at safeguarding the women land rights through the establishment of land monitoring and recording systems in one of the districts in the Central Region of Malawi. This paper shares the emerging experiences and lessons from the project. Experiences from this project reveal a very close linkage between land and water security as they relate to food security at community level.
18 Hellum, A.; Derman, B.; Mangwanya, L.; Rutsate, E. 2015. Securing rural women's land and water rights: lessions from Domboshawa communal land. In Hellum, A.; Kameri-Mbote, P.; van Koppen, Barbara. (Eds.) Water is life: women’s human rights in national and local water governance in southern and eastern Africa. Harare, Zimbabwe: Weaver Press. pp.384-419.
Land rights ; Land management ; Land use ; Water rights ; Water use ; Water scarcity ; Water governance ; Domestic water ; Rural communities ; Gender ; Women ; Human rights ; Wells ; Sanitation ; Villages ; Households / Zimbabwe / Domboshava
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI Record No: H047306)
19 Naber, M. A.; Molle, Francois. 2016. The politics of accessing desertland in Jordan. Land Use Policy, 59:492-503. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2016.09.026]
Land tenure ; Land management ; Land rights ; Land policies ; Legal pluralism ; Deserts ; Conflict ; Administration / Jordan / Azraq
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H048255)
20 Stoltenborg, D.; Boelens, R. 2017. Goldmining, dispossessing the commons, and multi-scalar responses: the case of Cerro de San Pedro, Mexico. In Suhardiman, Diana; Nicol, Alan; Mapedza, Everisto (Eds.). Water governance and collective action: multi-scale challenges. Oxon, UK: Routledge - Earthscan. pp.120-130.
Gold ; Mining ; Land resources ; Land rights ; Water resources ; Water rights ; International law ; Legislation ; Case studies / Mexico / Cerro de San Pedro
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI Record No: H048353)
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