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1 Facon, T.. 1997. Modernization of irrigation schemes: Synthesis of country papers. In FAO. RAP, Modernization of irrigation schemes: Past experiences and future options: Proceedings of the Expert Consultation, Bangkok, 26-29 November 1996. Bangkok, Thailand: FAO. RAP. pp.147-156. (Water report 12 / RAP publication 1997/22)
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 631.7.7 G000 FAO Record No: H021900)
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2 Facon, T.. 1999. Irrigation modernization training program. In Renault, D. (Ed.). Modernization of irrigation system operations: proceedings of the Fifth International ITIS [Information Techniques for Irrigation Systems] Network Meeting, Aurangabad, Maharashtra, India, 28-30 October 1998. Meeting organized by International Water Management Institute (IWMI); Research Center for Agricultural and Environmental Engineering (Cemagref); FAO; Water and Land Management Institute Maharashtra (WALMI). [Later published by FAO in 1999] pp.202-208.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: IWMI Record No: H024660)
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3 Burt, C. M.; Facon, T.. 1999. An irrigation modernization training programme. In FAO; International Water Management Institute (IWMI); Research Centre for Agriculture and Environmental Engineering (Cemagref); Water and Land Management Institute Maharashtra (WALMI). Modernization of irrigation system operations: proceedings of the Fifth International ITIS [Information Techniques for Irrigation Systems] Network Meeting, Aurangabad, Maharashtra, India, 28-30 October 1998. Bangkok, Thailand: FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific. pp.235-251. (FAO RAP Publication 99/43)
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI 631.7.7 G570 FAO Record No: H026214)
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4 Facon, T.. 2000. Improving the irrigation service to farmers: A key issue in participatory irrigation management. Paper presented at Seminar on Organizational Change for Participatory Irrigation Management, EDSA Shangri-La, Mandaluyong City, Philippines, 23-27 October 2000, organized by the APO. ii, 57p.
Irrigation management ; Participatory management ; Water user associations ; Performance indexes ; Water use efficiency ; Equity ; Rapid methods ; Water delivery ; Productivity ; Rice ; Modernization ; Water resource management ; Irrigation operation ; Water control ; Performance evaluation ; Irrigation canals / Asia / Makhamthao-Uthong Project
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: P 5629 Record No: H027476)
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5 Facon, T.. 2000. Performance evaluation of Makhamthao-Uthong Project with rapid appraisal procedure. In ICID, Asian Regional Workshop on Sustainable Development of Irrigation and Drainage for Rice Paddy Fields - Proceedings, July 24th to 28th, 2000, Tokyo Japan. Tokyo, Japan: ICID. Japanese National Committee. pp.312-316.
Irrigation programs ; Irrigation canals ; Performance evaluation ; Rice ; Indicators ; Rapid methods ; Groundwater irrigation / Thailand
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 631.7.2 G570 ICI Record No: H027897)
6 Facon, T.. 2002. Investing in irrigation and drainage in the context of water policy and institutional reform. In FAO. RAP. Investment in land and water û Proceedings of the Regional Consultation, Bangkok, Thailand, 3-5 October 2001. Bangkok, Thailand: FAO. RAP. pp.105-136.
Irrigation management ; Participatory management ; Farmer participation ; Privatization ; Modernization ; Water policy ; Water user associations ; Water resource management ; Irrigation systems ; Water distribution ; Water delivery ; Rehabilitation ; Investment ; Rice ; Operations ; Maintenance ; Design ; Monitoring ; Evaluation ; Training ; Public investment ; Private investment ; Poverty / Asia
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 631.7.4 G570 FAO Record No: H030005)
7 Ti, L. H.; Facon, T.. 2001. From vision to action: A synthesis of experience in Southeast Asia. Bangkok, Thailand: FAO; ESCAP. 121p.
Water resources development ; Water supply ; Sanitation ; Ecosystems ; River basins ; Flood control ; Drainage ; Irrigated farming ; National planning ; Development policy ; Water policy ; Water demand ; Water quality ; Water law ; Water pollution / South East Asia / Malaysia / Philippines / Thailand / Vietnam / Bangkok
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 333.91 G800 TI Record No: H031131)
8 Facon, T.. 2005. Asian irrigation in transition: service orientation, institutional aspects, and design, operation, infrastructure issues. In Shivakoti, G. P.; Vermillion, D. L.; Lam, W. F.; Ostrom, E.; Pradhan, U.; Yoder, R. ( Eds.). Asian irrigation in transition: responding to challenges. New Delhi, India: Sage. pp.255-290.
Irrigation management ; Privatization ; Modernization ; Irrigation systems ; Rice ; Water user associations / Asia
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI 631.7 G570 SHI Record No: H038057)
9 Faures, J. M.; Svendsen, M.; Turral, Hugh; Berkhoff, J.; Bhattarai, M.; Caliz, A. M.; Darghouth, S.; Doukkali, M. R.; El-Kady, M.; Facon, T.; Gopalakrishnan, M.; Groenfeldt, D.; Hoanh, Chu Thai; Hussain, I.; Jamin, J. Y.; Konradsen, F.; Leon, A.; Meinzen-Dick, R.; Miller, K.; Mirza, M.; Ringler, C.; Schipper, L.; Senzanje, A.; Tadesse, G.; Tharme, Rebecca; van Hofwegen, P.; Wahaj, R.; Varela-Ortega, C.; Yoder, R.; Zhanyi, G. 2007. Reinventing irrigation. In Molden, David (Ed.). Water for food, water for life: a Comprehensive Assessment of Water Management in Agriculture. London, UK: Earthscan; Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). pp.353-394.
Irrigation management ; Investment ; Costs ; Cost recovery ; Environmental effects ; Public health ; Water conservation ; Water use efficiency ; Irrigation systems
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI 630.7 G000 IWM Record No: H040202)
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10 Bouman, B.; Barker, R.; Humphreys, E.; Tuong, T. P.; Atlin, G.; Bennett, J.; Dawe, D.; Dittert, K.; Dobermann, A.; Facon, T.; Fujimoto, N.; Gupta, R.; Haefele, S.; Hosen, Y.; Ismail, A.; Johnson, D.; Johnson, S.; Khan, S.; Shan, L.; Masih, Ilyas; Matsuno, Y.; Pandey, S.; Peng, S.; Muthukumarisami, T.; Wassman, R. 2007. Rice: feeding the billions. In Molden, David (Ed.). Water for food, water for life: a Comprehensive Assessment of Water Management in Agriculture. London, UK: Earthscan; Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). pp.515-549.
Rice ; Paddy fields ; Economic aspects ; Irrigated farming ; Rainfed farming ; Environmental effects ; Climate change ; Greenhouse gases ; Methane ; Groundwater ; Arsenic ; Public health ; Drought ; Waterlogging ; Water conservation
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI 630.7 G000 IWM Record No: H040206)
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11 Renault, D.; Facon, T.; Wahaj, R. 2007. Modernizing irrigation management – the MASSCOTE approach: Mapping System and Services for Canal Operation Techniques. Rome, Italy: FAO. 207p. + 2 CDs. (FAO Irrigation and Drainage Paper 63)
Mapping ; Irrigation canals ; Canal regulation techniques ; Networks ; Maintenance ; Irrigation management ; Water delivery ; Water balance ; Flow measurement ; Water loss ; Seepage ; Operating costs ; Modernization ; Monitoring ; Evaluation
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 631.7.1 G000 REN Record No: H040271)
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12 Renault, D.; Facon, T.; Wahaj, R. 2007. Modernizing irrigation management – the MASSCOTE approach: Mapping System and Services for Canal Operation Techniques. Rome, Italy: FAO. 207p. + 2 CDs. (FAO Irrigation and Drainage Paper 63)
Mapping ; Irrigation canals ; Canal regulation techniques ; Networks ; Maintenance ; Irrigation management ; Water delivery ; Water balance ; Flow measurement ; Water loss ; Seepage ; Operating costs ; Modernization ; Monitoring ; Evaluation
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 631.7.1 G000 REN c2 Record No: H040272)
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13 Hoanh, Chu Thai; Facon, T.; Thuon, T.; Bastakoti, R. C.; Molle, Francois; Phengphaengsy, F. 2009. Irrigation in the Lower Mekong Basin countries: the beginning of a new era? In Molle, Francois; Foran, T.; Kakonen, M. (Eds.). Contested waterscapes in the Mekong region: hydropower, livelihoods and governance. London, UK: Earthscan. pp.143-171.
River basins ; Irrigation management ; Farming systems ; Rice ; Irrigated land ; Irrigation schemes ; Rehabilitation ; Modernization ; Participatory management ; Farmers ; Cost recovery ; Water policy / Laos / Cambodia / Thailand / Vietnam / Lower Mekong Basin / Stung Chinit Irrigation Scheme
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 333.91 G800 MOL Record No: H042241)
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14 Mukherji, Aditi; Facon, T.; Burke, J.; de Fraiture, Charlotte; Faures, J.-M.; Fuleki, Blanka; Giordano, Mark; Molden, David; Shah, Tushaar. 2009. Revitalizing Asia's irrigation: to sustainably meet tomorrow's food needs. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI); Rome, Italy: FAO. 39p.
Irrigated farming ; Food security ; Irrigation management ; Participatory management ; Water user associations ; Public sector ; Private sector ; Farmer managed irrigation systems ; Surface irrigation ; Pumps ; Groundwater irrigation ; Water productivity ; Models ; Reservoirs ; Canals ; Tanks ; Irrigation programs ; Climate change ; Farmer-led irrigation ; Water conservation / Asia
Call no: IWMI 631.7 G570 MUK Record No: H042273)
15 Mukherji, Aditi; Facon, T.; Burke, J.; de Fraiture, Charlotte; Faures, J. M.; Fuleki, Blanka; Giordano, Mark; Molden, David; Shah, Tushaar. 2009. Revitalizing Asia's irrigation: to sustainably meet tomorrow's food needs. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI); Rome, Italy: FAO. 39p.
Irrigated farming ; Food security ; Irrigation management ; Participatory management ; Water user associations ; Public sector ; Private sector ; Farmer managed irrigation systems ; Surface irrigation ; Pumps ; Groundwater irrigation ; Water productivity ; Models ; Reservoirs ; Canals ; Tanks ; Irrigation programs ; Climate change ; Farmer-led irrigation ; Water conservation / Asia
Call no: IWMI 631.7 G570 MUK c2 Record No: H042448)
16 Mukherji, Aditi; Facon, T.; Molden, David; Chartres, Colin. 2010. Growing more food with less water: how can revitalizing Asia’s irrigation help? Paper presented at the Water Crisis and Choices, ADB and Partners Conference, ADB HQ, Manila, Philippines, 11-15 October 2010. 23p.
Irrigation systems ; Irrigation management ; Institutional reform ; Food security ; Food production / Asia
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H043241)
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Irrigation has always played a central role in the agrarian economy of Asia, from supporting famed hydraulic civilizations in the ancient past to spearheading Green Revolution in the 1960s and 1970s,. Asia accounts for 70% of the world’s irrigated area and is home to some of the oldest and largest irrigation schemes. While these irrigation schemes played an important role in ensuring food security for billions of people in the past, their current state of affairs leaves much to be desired. The purpose of this paper is analyze the current trends in irrigation in Asia and suggest ways and means for revitalizing irrigation for meeting our future food needs and fuelling agricultural growth. The paper recommends a five pronged approach for revitalizing Asia’s irrigation and provides region specific strategies for the same. The underlying principal of these multiple strategies is the belief that the public institutions at the heart of irrigation management in Asia need to give up comfortable rigidity and engage with individual users’ needs and the demands placed by larger societal changes.
17 Facon, T.; Mukherji, Aditi. 2010. Small-scale irrigation: is this the future? Paper presented at the Water Crisis and Choices, ADB and Partners Conference, ADB HQ, Manila, Philippines, 11-15 October 2010. 43p.
Irrigation systems ; Small scale systems ; Large scale systems ; Irrigation management ; Modernization ; Economic aspects ; Environmental effects / Asia / India / China
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H043372)
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The authors were asked to answer the question ‘small-scale irrigation: is this the future?’. Taking as a starting point the analyses and of the IWMI-FAO-ADB study on Revitalizing Asia’s Irrigation and its key strategies, the paper compares atomistic irrigation, traditional small-scale and large-scale irrigation options, outcomes and potentials in their socio-economic and river basin environments. Atomistic irrigation has exploded, river basins are closing and energy prices are soaring. This new reality, its benefits, its sustainability crisis, but also the potential for new strategies that this phenomenon has demonstrated must first be acknowledged. In most countries and river basins, additional development of irrigation at whatever scale is not an option and the focus will be on improving the productivity and sustainability of existing systems. In areas where irrigation development is still possible, options remain open. Demography, market pull, water constraints and energy will largely determine the mix of atomistic, small-scale and large-scale irrigation and their evolution, expansion and decline over time. The paper explores tactics and strategies for the modernization of existing and the potential for new large-scale systems and for supporting and sustaining atomistic and small-scale irrigation, institutional and policy innovations, and tools to facilitate dynamic planning and management of the sector, the evolution of different systems and the design of measures to support an enabling environment. A considerable body of knowledge exists on how to support these strategies, transform large-scale irrigation systems and promote various forms of atomistic, small-scale and large-scale irrigation systems. Tools that support long-term sectoral planning and management for future investment and the design of measures to support an enabling environment are proposed. The deployment of sound water accounting and auditing systems will be critical. Planning and policy mechanisms will require looking outside the irrigation sector and this is often where effective interventions will be found. We need to move from competition and conflict between atomistic, small-scale and large-scale irrigation to a fluid logic of complementarily, combination and convergence. For this to happen, the virtual reality of official agency outlooks, imported frameworks, and descriptions of the sectors and the basins will often need to be reformed, as a preliminary to the reform of the institutions and programmes that embody them. Then, the mobilization of resources from the public sector, the private sector and water users can be greatly enhanced and result in positive outcomes and more sustainable results, and enable new solutions to old problems that have long nagged the sector. Changing the outlook of the sector and effecting the necessary structural and policy reforms, which are required to change decision-making on future investments in the sector will be difficult. Capacity building and changing practice and results on the ground, together with the adoption of robust monitoring and evaluation systems for investment and policy results, can serve as a basis for developing a broad constituency to effect the changes in governance and policy that will ultimately be needed, and assist in shaping investment to facilitate these changes.
18 Huu Ti, L.; Facon, T.. 2004. From vision to action: a synthesis of experiences in least-developed countries in Southeast Asia. Bangkok, Thailand: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific; Bangkok, Thailand: United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP). 123p. (RAP Publication 2004/32)
Water management ; Water resources development ; Developing countries ; River basin management ; Institutions ; Governmental organizations ; Agriculture ; Economic development ; Income ; Water policy ; Poverty ; Water power ; Groundwater ; Irrigation water ; Rural development / Southeast Asia / Laos / Myanmar / Mekong River
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 333.91 G000 HUU Record No: H043893)
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19 Bach, H.; Clausen, T. J.; Trang, D. T.; Emerton, L.; Facon, T.; Hofer, T.; Lazarus, K.; Muziol, C.; Noble, Andrew; Schill, P.; Sisouvanh, A.; Wensley, C.; Whiting, L. 2011. From local watershed management to integrated river basin management at national and transboundary levels. [Technical report]. Vientiane, Laos: Mekong River Commission. 42p.
Watershed management ; River basin management ; Institutions ; Economic aspects ; Financing / South East Asia / Cambodia / Lao People's Democratic Republic / Thailand / Vietnam / Mekong River Basin
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI Record No: H044160)
http://www.mpowernetwork.org/Knowledge_Bank/Key_Reports/PDF/Dialogue_Reports/Watershed_Management.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H044160.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H044160.pdf
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20 Mukherji, Aditi; Facon, T.; de Fraiture, Charlotte; Molden, David; Chartres, Colin. 2012. Growing more food with less water: how can revitalizing Asia’s irrigation help? Water Policy, 14(3):430-446. [doi: https://doi.org/10.2166/wp.2011.146]
Groundwater irrigation ; Irrigation systems ; Irrigation schemes ; Water demand ; Water rates ; Irrigated farming ; Public-private cooperation / Central Asia / South Asia / Southeast Asia
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H044973)
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Asia accounts for 70% of the world’s irrigated area and is home to some of the oldest and largest irrigation schemes. While these irrigation schemes played an important role in ensuring food security for billions of people in the past, their current state of affairs leaves much to be desired. This paper takes forward the IWMI–FAO–ADB (Asian Development Bank) recommendation of a five pronged approach for revitalizing Asia’s irrigation and provides a region specific road map for doing this. The underlying principle of these multiple strategies is the belief that the public institutions at the heart of irrigation management in Asia need to give up comfortable rigidity and engage with individual users’ needs and the demands placed by larger societal chang.
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