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1 Droogers, Peter; Seckler, David; Makin, Ian. 2001. Estimating the potential of rain-fed agriculture. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). v, 14p. (IWMI Working Paper 020) [doi: https://doi.org/10.3910/2009.153]
Irrigation management ; Water management ; Irrigated farming ; Rain-fed farming ; Crop production ; Food production ; Irrigation effects ; Climate ; Models ; Soil-water-plant relationships ; Crop yield ; Evapotranspiration
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: IWMI 631.7.1 G000 DRO Record No: H028728)
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A global estimate of the potential for rain-fed agriculture could provide an answer to the question "How much irrigation is required?" Global studies done to date have relied on course resolution climate data (0.5-1 degree arc). In this study a high-resolution climate dataset (10-minute arc) was combined with a soil water storage capacity map and a dynamic water and crop model to estimate the potential for rain-fed agriculture. The methodology applied here, based ona high-resolution climate dataset, allows analyses on a global scale without losing the smaller regional-scale issues.
2 Malano, H. M.; Burton, M.; Makin, Ian. 2004. Guest editors’ editorial. Irrigation and Drainage, 53(2):117-118.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: PER Record No: H034891)
3 Malano, H.; Burton, M.; Makin, Ian. 2004. Benchmarking performance in the irrigation and drainage sector: a tool for change. Irrigation and Drainage, 53(2):119-133.
Irrigation management ; Drainage ; Planning ; Performance indexes ; Productivity ; Research institutes ; Agricultural research
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: PER Record No: H034892)
4 Imbulana, K. A. U. S.; Droogers, Peter; Makin, Ian. (Eds.) 2004. World Water Assessment Program case study, Ruhuna basins, Sri Lanka. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). v, 93p.
River basins ; Topography ; Soils ; Ecology ; Climate ; Rain ; Evapotranspiration ; Population ; Land use ; Surface water ; Groundwater ; Aquifers ; Water quality ; Water resources development ; Fisheries ; Wells ; Pumps ; Waterborne diseases ; Ecosystems ; Water use ; Hydroelectric schemes ; Tanks ; Political aspects ; Institutions ; Legislation ; Public investment ; Domestic water ; Water supply ; Financing ; Social participation ; Risks ; Drought ; Irrigation water / Sri Lanka / Ruhuna river basins
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: IWMI 333.91 G178 IMB Record No: H035301)
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The "Ruhuna Basins" defined for this case study encompass three of the main rivers that flow through ancient Ruhuna, including the longest and most important river in the region, Walawe. The Ruhuna basins are important in the broader Sri Lankan context, the basin being the location of a major hydropower plant, irrigation schemes that make a significant contribution to national food production, and important nature reserves. However, even before the proposed development begins to be implemented, the basins are experiencing major water resources problems, clearly demonstrated by the recent drought that led to reduction of water supplies to agriculture, insufficient domestic water supply, and which contributed to nationwide power cuts upto 8 hours a day. These challenging issues motivated the Government of Sri Lanka to select the cluster of three important rivers, Walawe, Menik and Kirindi, and the smaller basins confined by them as the area for the case study for the World Water Assessment Program.
5 Bastiaanssen, Wim; Makin, Ian. (Eds.) 2003. Editorial - Introduction. Agricultural Water Management, 58:87-88.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: IWMI 631.7.1 G000 BAS Record No: H038191)
6 Qureshi, Asad Sarwar; Hussain, Asghar; Makin, Ian. 2002. Integrated database development for river basin management: An example from Rechna Doab. Lahore, Pakistan: International Water Management Institute (IWMI) ii, 30p. (IWMI Working Paper 053 / Pakistan Country Series No.18) [doi: https://doi.org/10.3910/2009.289]
River basins ; Databases ; GIS ; Decision support tools ; Water table ; Groundwater ; Water quality ; Climate ; Canals ; Irrigation systems ; Irrigation practices ; Soil salinity / Pakistan / Rechna Doab
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: IWMI 631.7.1 G730 QUR Record No: H035618)
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7 Shah, Tushaar; Makin, Ian; Sakthivadivel, Ramaswamy. 2006. Limits to leapfrogging: issues in transposing successful river basin management institutions in the developing world. In Mollinga, P. P.; Dixit, A.; Athukorala, K. (Eds). Integrated water resources management: global theory, emerging practices and local needs. New Delhi, India: Sage. pp.109-144. (Water in South Asia, Vol.1)
River basin management ; Hydrology ; Institutional development / Australia / Asia / Central Asia / Europe / India / China / Taiwan / Sri Lanka / South Africa / Murray-Darling River
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 333.91 G570 MOL Record No: H039751)
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8 Phonkarm, R.; Chandrapatya, Suraphol; Makin, Ian. 2005. The web-based extension channel: a decision support tool for sloping land conservation and management technology transfer for selective adoption by farmers. In Kheoruenromne, I.; Riddell, J. A.; Soitong, K. (Eds.). Proceedings of SSWM 2004 International Conference on Innovative Practices for Sustainable Sloping Lands and Watershed Management, Chiang Mai Hill Hotel, Chiang Mai, Thailand, 5-9 September 2004. Bangkok, Thailand: Department of Agricultural Extension. pp.280-291.
Sloping land ; Erosion ; Soil conservation ; Land management ; Databases ; Technology transfer ; Farming systems ; Decision support tools ; Computer techniques ; Agricultural extension
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI 631.45 G800 PHO, 333.91 G570 KHE Record No: H040247)
9 Malano, H. M.; Burton, M.; Makin, Ian. (Eds.) 2004. Special issue: benchmarking in the irrigation and drainage sector. Irrigation and Drainage, 53(2):117-214.
Irrigation programs ; Drainage ; Performance evaluation ; Performance indexes ; Rapid methods ; Modernization ; Guidelines ; Indicators ; Case studies / Australia / Malaysia / India / Sri Lanka / Turkey / Spain
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI Record No: H044360)
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10 Lankford, B.; Makin, Ian; Matthews, N.; McCornick, Peter G.; Noble, A.; Shah, Tushaar. 2016. A compact to revitalise large-scale irrigation systems using a leadership-partnership-ownership 'Theory of Change' Water Alternatives, 9(1):1-32.
Irrigation systems ; Large scale systems ; Food security ; Water security ; Water allocation ; Ecosystem services ; Crop production ; Irrigated land ; Irrigation canals ; Energy conservation ; Economic growth ; Leadership ; Partnerships ; Ownership ; River basin management
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H047459)
http://www.water-alternatives.org/index.php/alldoc/articles/302-a9-1-1/file
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H047459.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H047459.pdf
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In countries with transitional economies such as those found in South Asia, large-scale irrigation systems (LSIS) with a history of public ownership account for about 115 million ha (Mha) or approximately 45% of their total area under irrigation. In terms of the global area of irrigation (320 Mha) for all countries, LSIS are estimated at 130 Mha or 40% of irrigated land. These systems can potentially deliver significant local, regional and global benefits in terms of food, water and energy security, employment, economic growth and ecosystem services. For example, primary crop production is conservatively valued at about US$355 billion. However, efforts to enhance these benefits and reform the sector have been costly and outcomes have been underwhelming and short-lived. We propose the application of a 'theory of change' (ToC) as a foundation for promoting transformational change in large-scale irrigation centred upon a 'global irrigation compact' that promotes new forms of leadership, partnership and ownership (LPO). The compact argues that LSIS can change by switching away from the current channelling of aid finances controlled by government irrigation agencies. Instead it is for irrigators, closely partnered by private, public and NGO advisory and regulatory services, to develop strong leadership models and to find new compensatory partnerships with cities and other river basin neighbours. The paper summarises key assumptions for change in the LSIS sector including the need to initially test this change via a handful of volunteer systems. Our other key purpose is to demonstrate a ToC template by which large-scale irrigation policy can be better elaborated and discussed.
11 Holmatov, Bunyod; Lautze, Jonathan; Manthrithilake, Herath; Makin, Ian. 2017. Water security for productive economies: applying an assessment framework in southern Africa. Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, 100:258-269. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pce.2017.04.007]
Water security ; Water productivity ; Economic aspects ; Agricultural production ; Electricity generation ; Industrial uses ; Water resources ; Water supply ; Water stress ; Drought ; Resilience ; Gross national product ; Indicators ; SADC countries / Southern Africa
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H048773)
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Achieving water security has emerged as a major objective in Africa, yet an analytical or diagnostic framework for assessing water security in African countries is not known to exist. This paper applies one key dimension of the 2016 Asian Development Bank's (ADB) Asian Water Development Outlook (AWDO) to assess levels of water security for productive economies in countries of the Southern African Development Community (SADC). Economic aspects of water security cover four areas: economic activities in the broad sense, agriculture, electricity, and industry. Water security in each area is measured through application of a set of indicators; results of indicator application are then aggregated to determine economic water security at a country-level. Results show that economic water security in SADC is greatest in the Seychelles and South Africa, and lowest in Madagascar and Malawi. Opportunities for strengthening economic water security in the majority of SADC countries exist through improving agricultural water productivity, strengthening resilience, and expanding sustainable electricity generation. More profoundly, this paper suggests that there is clear potential and utility in applying approaches used elsewhere to assess economic water security in southern Africa.
12 McCartney, Matthew P.; Whiting, L.; Makin, Ian; Lankford, B. A.; Ringler, C. 2019. Rethinking irrigation modernisation: realising multiple objectives through the integration of fisheries. Marine and Freshwater Research, 70(9):1201-1210. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1071/MF19161]
Inland fisheries ; Irrigation systems ; Modernization ; Integrated management ; Aquaculture ; Ecosystems ; Sustainable Development Goals ; Sustainable agriculture ; Frameworks ; Trends ; Infrastructure ; Farmers
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H049311)
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Irrigation has been, and will remain, instrumental in addressing water security (Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6), food insecurity (SDG 2) and poverty (SDG 1) goals. However, the global context in which irrigation takes place is changing rapidly. A call for healthier and more sustainable food systems is placing new demands on how irrigation is developed and managed. Growing pressures from competing water uses in the domestic and industrial sectors, as well increasing environmental awareness, mean irrigation is increasingly called on to perform better, delivering acceptable returns on investment and simultaneously improving food security, rural livelihoods and nutrition, as well as supporting environmental conservation. Better integration of fisheries (including aquaculture) in irrigation planning, investment and management can contribute to the modernisation of irrigation and the achievement of the multiple objectives that it is called on to deliver. A framework illustrating how fisheries can be better integrated with irrigation, and how the two can complement each other across a range of scales, from scheme to catchment and, ultimately, national level, is presented.
13 Young, W. J.; Anwar, Arif; Bhatti, Tousif; Borgomeo, Edoardo; Davies, S.; Garthwaite, W. R. III; Gilmont, M.; Leb, C.; Lytton, L.; Makin, Ian; Saeed, B. 2019. Pakistan: getting more from water. Washington, DC, USA: World Bank. 191p. (Water Security Diagnostics)
Water security ; Water resources ; Water management ; Water governance ; Water policy ; Groundwater management ; Agricultural water use ; Water productivity ; Water availability ; Water allocation ; Water balance ; Water demand ; Water quality ; Water extraction ; Institutional reform ; Irrigation systems ; Irrigated sites ; Irrigated farming ; Water supply ; Hydropower ; Energy ; Nexus ; Environmental sustainability ; Legal frameworks ; Law reform ; Infrastructure ; Investment ; Economic aspects ; Financing ; Income ; Sanitation ; Climate change ; Flood control ; Risk reduction ; Planning ; Rivers ; Reservoirs ; Dams ; Sediment ; Political aspects ; Monitoring ; Models / Pakistan / Indus Basin / Punjab / Sindh / Khyber Pakhtunkhwa / Balochistan / Karachi
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H049423)
http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/251191548275645649/pdf/133964-WP-PUBLIC-ADD-SERIES-22-1-2019-18-56-25-W.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H049423.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H049423.pdf
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This report builds on prior work to provide a new, comprehensive, and balanced view of water security in Pakistan, stressing the importance of the diverse social, environmental, and economic outcomes from water. The report highlights the complex water issues that Pakistan must tackle to improve water security and sheds new light on conventional assumptions around water. It seeks to elevate water security as an issue critical for national development. The report assesses current water security and identifies important water-related challenges that may hinder progress in economic and human development. It identifies unmitigated water-related risks, as well as opportunities where water can contribute to economic growth and poverty reduction. The report analyzes how the performance and architecture of the water sector are related to broader economic, social, and environmental outcomes. It models alternative economic trajectories to identify where intervention can lead to a more water-secure future. A consideration of water sector architecture and performance and how these determine outcome leads to recommendations for improving aspects of sector performance and adjusting sector architecture for better outcomes. The sector performance analysis considers (a) management of the water resource, (b) delivery of water services, and (c) mitigation of water-related risks. The description of sector architecture considers water governance, infrastructure, and financing.
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