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1 Swallow, B.; Ehui, S. 1992. Integrating natural resources management issues into ILCA's research agenda. In Collinson, M. P.; Platais, K. W. (Eds.) Social science research in the CGIAR: Proceedings of a Meeting of CGIAR Social Scientists held at ISNAR, the Hague, the Netherlands, 17-20 August 1992. Washington, DC, USA: CGIAR. pp.60-61. (CGIAR study paper no.28)
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 338.1 G000 COL, P 2242/14 Record No: H010953)
2 McCarthy, N; Swallow, B.; Kirk, M.; Hazell, P. (Eds.) 2000. Property rights, risk, and livestock development in Africa. Washington, DC, USA; Nairobi, Kenya: IFPRI; ILRI. x, 433p.
Livestock ; Animal husbandry ; Land tenure ; Pastoralism ; Agrarian reform ; Decentralization ; Legal aspects ; Public policy ; Drought ; Risks ; Economic analysis ; Common property ; Land use ; Conflict ; Analysis ; Institutions ; Farming systems ; Land reform ; Sustainability ; Case studies ; Population growth ; Crop production ; Millets ; Constraints ; Research methods / Africa / Niger / Ethiopia
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 333.3 G100 MCC Record No: H025954)
Papers presented at an international conference.
3 Cook, S.; Johnson, N.; Swallow, B.; Ravnburg, H.; Beaulieu, N.; Mulligan, M.; Schreier, H.; Valentin, C.; Wani, S. P.; Penning de Vries, F.; Sanz, N.; Gottriet, V.; Westermann, O. 2002. Multiple use of upper catchments: toward a research agenda for Subtheme Two of the Challenge Program on water and food. Challenge Program on Water and Food background paper 2. In CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food. Challenge Program on Water and Food: background papers to the full proposal. Colombo, Sri Lanka: CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food. pp.43-84.
Catchment areas ; Watershed management ; Agricultural research ; Research projects ; Poverty ; indicators ; Living conditions ; Water use ; Water quality ; Hydrology ; Water balance ; Conflict
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 333.91 G000 CGI Record No: H031288)
4 Rosegrant, M. W.; Davila-Poblete, S.; Dawe, D.; Elliot, H.; Kaosa-ard, M.; Meinzen-Dick, R.; Palanisami, K.; Pingali, P.; Samad, M.; Swallow, B.; Wolf, A. 2002. Policies and institutions for sustainable water resource management: a research agenda. Challenge Program on Water and Food background paper 5. In CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food. Challenge Program on Water and Food: background papers to the full proposal. Colombo, Sri Lanka: CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food. pp.161-196.
Water resource management ; Water policy ; Sustainability ; Agricultural research ; Water supply ; Water demand ; Food security ; Water scarcity ; Water costs ; Institutional development ; Water use ; Irrigated farming ; Salinity ; Groundwater depletion ; Poverty ; Women ; Water quality ; Water pollution ; Ecosystems ; Domestic water ; Cost recovery ; Conflict ; River basins ; Investment ; Financing ; Water allocation ; Water rights
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 333.91 G000 CGI Record No: H031291)
5 Kamara, A.; Swallow, B.; Kirk, M. 2002. Role of policies and development interventions in pastoral resource management: the Borana rangelands in southern Ethiopia. Nairobi, Kenya: International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI); Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). vii, 34p. (ILRI Socio-economics and Policy Research Working Paper 53)
Grassland management ; Peasant workers ; Institutional development ; Policy ; Drought ; Land use / Ethiopia
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI 636 G136 KAM Record No: H032442)
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The Borana rangelands of southern Ethiopia are characterised by extensive livestock production in response to the area’s natural characteristics - aggregate mean rainfall ranges between 300 and 900 mm per annum with high seasonal and inter-annual variability. Though traditionally transhumant pastoralists, the Boranas have recently increased their reliance on crops, with evidence of communal pastures becoming either privatised, or accessible to only a small sub-group of individuals or households. Built on earlier quantitative assessment of the socio-economic drivers of the above changes, this paper focuses on the role of national level policies implemented in the area over the past decades, and how these have affected the traditional institutional setting that determines land use, property rights and pathways of livestock development. Intensive literature review was combined with in-depth key informant and group interviews to identify key policies and interventions, assess their impacts and explore the responses and strategies adopted at both individual and community levels to cope with the changing situation. While acknowledging the role of demographic and market forces as highlighted in the quantitative assessment, the paper concludes that different pathways from transhumant pastoralism have been shaped by policies and external interventions.
6 Kamara, Abdul B.; Swallow, B.; Kirk, M. 2004. Policies, interventions and institutional change in pastoral resource management in Borana, Southern Ethiopia. Development Policy Review, 22(4):381-403.
Pastoralism ; Social organization ; Policy ; Livestock ; Grazing ; Institutional development ; Land use ; Economic analysis / Ethiopia / Borana
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: IWMI 636 G136 KAM Record No: H035105)
7 Kamara, Abdul; Kirk, M.; Swallow, B.. 2005. Property rights and land use change: implications for sustainable resource management in Borana, Southern Ethiopia. Journal of Sustainable Agriculture, 25(2):45-61.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: IWMI 333 G136 KAM Record No: H038305)
8 Swallow, B.; Onyango, L.; Meinzen-Dick, R.; Holl, N. 2005. Dynamics of poverty, livelihoods and property rights in the Lower Nyando Basin of Kenya. In van Koppen, Barbara; Butterworth, J.; Juma, I. (Eds.). African Water Laws: Plural Legislative Frameworks for Rural Water Management in Africa: An International Workshop, Johannesburg, South Africa, 26-28 January 2005. pp.15-1/15-14.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: IWMI 333.91 G100 VAN Record No: H038752)
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9 Onyango, L.; Swallow, B.; Meinzen-Dick, R. 2005. Hydronomics and terranomics in the Nyando Basin of Western Kenya. In van Koppen, Barbara; Butterworth, J.; Juma, I. (Eds.). African Water Laws: Plural Legislative Frameworks for Rural Water Management in Africa: An International Workshop, Johannesburg, South Africa, 26-28 January 2005. pp.16-1/16-16.
Water resource management ; Land management ; River basins ; Land tenure ; Farms ; Forests / Kenya / Nyando Basin
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: IWMI 333.91 G100 VAN Record No: H038753)
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10 Roy, J. L.; Crow, B.; Swallow, B.. 2005. Getting access to adequate water: Community organizing, women and social change in Western Kenya. In van Koppen, Barbara; Butterworth, J.; Juma, I. (Eds.). African Water Laws: Plural Legislative Frameworks for Rural Water Management in Africa: An International Workshop, Johannesburg, South Africa, 26-28 January 2005. pp.17-1/17-11.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: IWMI 333.91 G100 VAN Record No: H038754)
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11 Swallow, B.; Russell, D.; Fay, C. 2006. Agroforestry and environmental governance. In Garrity, D.; Okono, A.; Grayson, M.; Parrott, S. (Eds.). World agroforestry into the Future. Nairobi, Kenya: World Agroforestry Centre. pp.85-94.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 634.99 G000 GAR Record No: H039076)
12 Swallow, B.; Boffa, J. M.; Scherr, S. J. 2006. The potential for agroforestry to contribute to the conservation and enhancement of landscape biodiversity. In Garrity, D.; Okono, A.; Grayson, M.; Parrott, S. (Eds.). World agroforestry into the Future. Nairobi, Kenya: World Agroforestry Centre. pp.95-101.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 634.99 G000 GAR Record No: H039077)
13 Onyango, L.; Swallow, B.; Roy, J. L.; Meinzen-Dick, R. 2007. Coping with history and hydrology: how Kenya’s settlement and land tenure patterns shape contemporary water rights and gender relations in water. In van Koppen, Barbara; Giordano, Mark; Butterworth, J. (Eds.). Community-based water law and water resource management reform in developing countries. Wallingford, UK: CABI. pp.173-195. (Comprehensive Assessment of Water Management in Agriculture Series 5)
River basins ; Water rights ; Legislation ; Land management ; Land tenure ; Forests ; Water supply ; Gender ; Water resources ; Social participation / Kenya / Nyando River Basin
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI 346.04691 G000 VAN Record No: H040694)
14 Swallow, B.; Onyango, L.; Meinzen-Dick, R. 2007. Irrigation management and poverty dynamics: case study of the Nyando Basin in Western Kenya. In van Koppen, Barbara; Giordano, Mark; Butterworth, J. (Eds.). Community-based water law and water resource management reform in developing countries. Wallingford, UK: CABI. pp.196-210. (Comprehensive Assessment of Water Management in Agriculture Series 5)
River basins ; Flood plains ; Irrigation practices ; Irrigation management ; Poverty ; Land tenure ; Farmers attitudes / Kenya / Nyando River Basin
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI 346.04691 G000 VAN Record No: H040695)
15 Swallow, B.; Okono, N.; Achouri, M.; Tennyson, L. (Eds.) 2005. Preparing for the next generation of watershed management programmes and projects: Africa. Proceedings of the African Regional Workshop, Nairobi, Kenya, 8-10 October 2003. Rome, Italy: FAO. 282p.
Watershed management ; Water resource management ; Social participation ; River basins ; Runoff ; Erosion ; Farming systems ; Agroforestry ; Water policy ; Legislation / Africa / Kenya / Zimbabwe / South Africa / Ghana / Cameroon / Nyando Basin / Chiwi District / Niger River Basin
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 333.91 G000 100 SWA Record No: H041308)
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16 Swallow, B.; Onyango, L.; Meinzen-Dick, R. 2005. Catchment property rights and the case of Kenya’s Nyando Basin. In Swallow, B.; Okono, N.; Achouri, M.; Tennyson, L. (Eds.). Preparing for the next generation of watershed management programmes and projects: Africa. Proceedings of the African Regional Workshop, Nairobi, Kenya, 8-10 October 2003. Rome, Italy: FAO. pp.123-136.
Watershed management ; Property rights ; River basins ; Catchment areas ; Land tenure ; Legislation / Kenya / Nyando Basin
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 333.91 G000 100 SWA Record No: H041315)
17 Were, E.; Swallow, B.; Roy, J. 2005. Water, women and local social organization in the Western Kenya highlands. Paper presented at the International Research Workshop on Gender and Collective Action, Chiang Mai, Thailand, 17-21 October 2005. 21p.
Women ; Gender ; Water supply ; Water rights ; Health ; Collective action ; Participatory management / Kenya / Kiptagan village / Kericho district
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H042984)
Safe water is widely recognized as both a fundamental human need and a key input into economic activity. Across the developing world, the typical approach to addressing these needs is to segregate supplies of water for domestic use from water for large-scale agricultural production. In that arrangement, the goal of domestic water supply is to provide small amounts of clean safe water for direct consumption, cleaning, bathing and sanitation, while the goal of agricultural water supply is to provide large amounts of lower quality water for irrigated agriculture. A new third use of water is now being given more attention by researchers: small amounts of water employed in selected household enterprises. This third use may be particularly important for women. There is a potential, therefore, that provision of modest amounts of water to smallholder farmers can enhance household economic production, save labor time for women and girls, and improve family health.
This paper adds to the merger literature on the multiple values of improved water supplies – improved health, time savings, and small-scale production for individual farmers and collectives – for the case of a rural community in the western highlands of Kenya. With minimum external support, two groups in this community have managed to install and operate systems of spring protection and piped water to their members’ homesteads. A third group is in the process of replicating this success. The experience of this community also illustrates some of the challenges that must be faced for a community to effectively selforganize the investment and maintenance of a community-based water scheme. There are challenges of finance, gender relations, conflicts over scarce water supplies, group leadership, enforcement of community bi-laws, and policy. Data from a census of springs in the same area show that successful collective action for water management is unusual, but certainly not unique, in this region of Kenya. Although women emerge as the main beneficiaries of improved water management in the community, their substantial contributions are largely hidden behind social norms regarding gender roles and relations. Research methods need to carefully triangulate information sources in order to clarify the very substantial and active roles performed by women.
This paper adds to the merger literature on the multiple values of improved water supplies – improved health, time savings, and small-scale production for individual farmers and collectives – for the case of a rural community in the western highlands of Kenya. With minimum external support, two groups in this community have managed to install and operate systems of spring protection and piped water to their members’ homesteads. A third group is in the process of replicating this success. The experience of this community also illustrates some of the challenges that must be faced for a community to effectively selforganize the investment and maintenance of a community-based water scheme. There are challenges of finance, gender relations, conflicts over scarce water supplies, group leadership, enforcement of community bi-laws, and policy. Data from a census of springs in the same area show that successful collective action for water management is unusual, but certainly not unique, in this region of Kenya. Although women emerge as the main beneficiaries of improved water management in the community, their substantial contributions are largely hidden behind social norms regarding gender roles and relations. Research methods need to carefully triangulate information sources in order to clarify the very substantial and active roles performed by women.
18 Were, E.; Swallow, B.; Roy, J. 2006. Water, women, and local social organization in the western Kenya highlands. Washington, DC, USA: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). 41p. (CAPRi Working Paper 51)
Water management ; Gender ; Women ; Collective action ; Community organizations ; Water supply ; Water rights ; Water use / Kenya
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H043909)
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Safe water is widely recognized as both a fundamental human need and a key input into economic activity. Across the developing world, the typical approach to addressing these needs is to segregate supplies of water for domestic use from water for large-scale agricultural production. In that arrangement, the goal of domestic water supply is to provide small amounts of clean safe water for direct consumption, cleaning, bathing and sanitation, while the goal of agricultural water supply is to provide large amounts of lower quality water for irrigated agriculture. A new third use of water is now being given more attention by researchers: small amounts of water employed in selected household enterprises. This third use may be particularly important for women. There is a potential, therefore, that provision of modest amounts of water to smallholder farmers can enhance household economic production, save labor time for women and girls, and improve family health. This paper adds to the emerging literature on the multiple values of improved water supplies – improved health, time savings, and small-scale production for individual farmers and collectives – for the case of a rural community in the western highlands of Kenya. With minimum external support, two groups in this community have managed to install and operate systems of spring protection and piped water to their members’ homesteads. Members of those households, particularly women, have benefited substantially in terms of time savings, health and small-scale production. The experience of this community also illustrates some of the challenges that must be faced for a community to effectively self-organize the investment and maintenance of a communitybased water scheme. There are challenges of finance, gender relations, and conflict over scarce water supplies, group leadership, enforcement of community bi-laws, and policy. Data from a census of springs in the same area show that successful collective action for water management is unusual, but certainly not unique, in this region of Kenya. Although women emerge as the main beneficiaries of improved water management in the community, their substantial contributions are largely hidden behind social norms regarding gender roles and relations. Research methods need to carefully triangulate information sources in order to clarify the very substantial and active roles performed by women. Kenya’s water policy should be modified to better recognize and facilitate small-scale community-based water projects.
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