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1 Leonhardt, C. F. 1992. Irrigation Systems Management Project: End of tour report, 15 August 1987 - 17 February 1991. Unpublished report on the Second Phase of USAID assistance for improving water management in Sri Lanka. v.p.
Irrigation programs ; Rehabilitation ; Operations ; Maintenance ; Costs ; Irrigation canals ; Training ; Water measurement ; Computer models / Sri Lanka / Polonnaruwa District / Gal Oya Project / Ampara / Kurunegala / Redi Bendi Ela Scheme / Giritale Tank
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: P 5136 Record No: H024287)
2 PRC Engineering Consultants Intl. 1988. Water Management Project: Master plan, Gal Oya System - Volume 1, Text. Unpublished USAID Project report, Colombo, Sri Lanka. v.p.
Water management ; Irrigation programs ; Development projects ; Project planning ; Irrigation systems ; Irrigation canals ; Construction ; Tanks ; Operations ; Maintenance ; Climate ; Aquifers ; Water table ; Groundwater ; Recharge ; Water quality ; Salt water intrusion ; Sedimentation ; Drainage ; Flood control ; Land classification ; Land use ; Land tenure ; Population ; Social aspects ; Irrigation management ; Farmer participation ; Policy ; Legal aspects ; Agricultural production ; Rice ; Groundnuts ; Sugarcane ; Crop production ; Livestock ; Fisheries ; Marketing ; Agricultural extension ; Agricultural credit ; Farmers' associations ; Wells ; Drilling ; Water supply ; Watersheds ; Erosion ; Sedimentation ; Farmers' attitudes ; Water requirements ; Irrigation requirements ; Evapotranspiration ; Water distribution ; Water availability ; Water reuse ; Water user associations ; Institution building ; Economic aspects ; Reservoir operation / Sri Lanka / Gal Oya Project / Inginiyagala / Navakiri System / Senanayaka Samudra / Ampara / Navakiri Reservoir
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: R 631.7.8 G744 PRC Record No: H024291)
3 Sri Lanka. Ministry of Agriculture and Lands. Department of Agrarian Services. 2000. Data book for village irrigation schemes of Sri Lanka, Ampara District. Colombo, Sri Lanka: The Department. Water Management Division. xii, 61p.
Irrigation programs ; Tanks ; River basins ; Catchment areas ; Soils ; Villages ; Farmers' associations / Sri Lanka / Ampara
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: P 5632 Record No: H027584)
4 Rajakaruna, R. S.; Weerasinghe, M.; Alifrangis, M.; Amerasinghe, Priyanie; Konradsen, F. 2006. The role of private drug vendors as malaria treatment providers in selected malaria endemic areas of Sri Lanka. Journal of Vector Borne Diseases, 43:58-65.
Malaria ; Waterborne diseases ; Medicines ; Drugs / Sri Lanka / Anuradhapura / Ampara / Vavuniya / Mannar / Moneragala / Hambantota / Badulla
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: IWMI 616.9362 G744 RAJ Record No: H039914)
5 International Water Management Institute (IWMI). 2012. Water Matters: news of IWMI research in Sri Lanka. Water Matters: news of IWMI research in Sri Lanka, 7. 12p. [doi: https://doi.org/10.5337/2012.205]
Research institutes ; Agricultural research ; Research projects ; Water management ; Wells ; Urban agriculture ; Policy ; Climate change ; Salinity / Sri Lanka / Western Province / Ampara / Jaffna
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI Record No: H044985)
http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/News_Room/Newsletters/Water_Matters/PDFs/Water_Matters-Issue7_May_2012.pdf
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6 Sri Lanka. Ministry of Finance and Planning, Department of Census and Statistics. 2012. Bulletin of selected retail and producer prices 2008-2011. Colombo, Sri Lanka: Sri Lanka. Ministry of Finance and Planning, Department of Census and Statistics. 246p.
Economic aspects ; Retail prices ; Consumer prices ; Food prices ; Agricultural production ; Consumer behaviour ; Households ; Livestock products ; Rice ; Fishery products ; Surveys ; Statistics / Sri Lanka / Colombo / Gampaha / Kalutara / Kandy / Nuwara Eliya / Galle / Matara / Hambantota / Jaffna / Manna / Vavuniya / Mullativu / Killinochci / Batticaloa / Ampara / Trincomalee / Kurunegala / Puttalam / Anuradhapura / Polonnaruwa / Badulla / Moneragala / Ratnapura / Kegalla
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 310 G744 SRI Record No: H046288)
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7 Gamage, D.; Damayanthi, M. K. N. 2012. Major dimensions of contemporary smallholder agriculture sector in Sri Lanka. Colombo, Sri Lanka: Hector Kobbekaduwa Agrarian Research and Training Institute (HARTI). 88p. (HARTI Research Report 146)
Smallholders ; Agricultural development ; Population ; Censuses ; Socioeconomic environment ; Education ; Employment ; Unemployment ; Household income ; Statistical analysis ; Land tenure ; Land use ; Crop production ; Rice ; Production costs ; Farmers ; Farm income ; Farm equipment ; Diversification ; Research / Sri Lanka / Polonnaruwa / Matale / Anuradhapura / Ampara / Galle / Matara / Puttalam / Hambantota / Kurunegala
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 630 G744 GAM Record No: H046394)
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8 Aheeyar, M. M. M.; Bandara, M. A. C. S.; Padmajani, M. T. 2012. Assessment of solar powered drip irrigation project implemented by Ministry of Agriculture – phase 1. Colombo, Sri Lanka: Hector Kobbekaduwa Agrarian Research and Training Institute (HARTI). 50p. (HARTI Research Report 148)
Drip irrigation ; Irrigation systems ; Solar energy ; Agriculture ; Water management ; Sustainability ; Fertigation ; Socioeconomic environment ; Farmers ; Loans ; Projects / Sri Lanka / Ampara / Anuradhapura / Badulla / Hambantota / Kurunegala / Matale / Moneragala / Polonnaruwa / Puttalam
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 631.7 G744 AHE Record No: H046412)
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9 Bandara, M. A. C. S.; Padmajani, M. T. 2014. Evaluation of Solar Powered Drip Irrigation Project – phase 2. [Project report of the Sustainable Agriculture Water Management done under the Ministry of Agriculture]. Colombo, Sri Lanka: Hector Kobbekaduwa Agrarian Research and Training Institute (HARTI). 52p. (HARTI Research Report 166)
Drip irrigation ; Irrigation systems ; Solar energy ; Performance evaluation ; Sustainable agriculture ; Water management ; Projects ; Farmers ; Stakeholders ; Government departments / Sri Lanka / Ampara / Badulla / Jaffna / Kurunegala / Matale / Mullaitivu / Polonnaruwa
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 631.7 G744 BAN Record No: H046647)
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10 Aheeyar, M. M. M.; Bandara, M. A. C. S.; Padmajani, M. T. 2012. Assessment of solar powered drip irrigation project implemented by Ministry of Agriculture – phase 1. Colombo, Sri Lanka: Hector Kobbekaduwa Agrarian Research and Training Institute (HARTI). 50p. (HARTI Research Report 148)
Drip irrigation ; Irrigation systems ; Solar energy ; Agriculture ; Water management ; Sustainability ; Fertigation ; Socioeconomic environment ; Farmers ; Loans ; Projects / Sri Lanka / Ampara / Anuradhapura / Badulla / Hambantota / Kurunegala / Matale / Moneragala / Polonnaruwa / Puttalam
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 631.7 G744 AHE c2 Record No: H046662)
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11 Damayanthi, M. K. N.; Rambodagedara, R. M. M. H. K. 2013. Factors affecting less youth participation in smallholder agriculture in Sri Lanka. Colombo, Sri Lanka: Hector Kobbekaduwa Agrarian Research and Training Institute (HARTI). 102p. (HARTI Research Report 154)
Agricultural sector ; Young workers ; Farmer participation ; Smallholders ; Gender ; Unemployment ; Socioeconomic environment ; Vocational training ; Agricultural extension ; Land use ; Farmland ; Crop insurance ; Case studies / Sri Lanka / Nuwara Eliya / Matale / Polonnaruwa / Kurunegala / Ampara / Hambantota / Monaragala / Anuradhapura / Batticaloa
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 630 G744 DAM Record No: H046989)
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12 Kafle, Kashi; Balasubramanya, Soumya; Horbulyk, Ted. 2019. Prevalence of chronic kidney disease in Sri Lanka: a profile of affected districts reliant on groundwater. Science of the Total Environment, 694:133767. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.133767]
Kidney diseases ; Chronic course ; Aetiology ; Groundwater ; Water use ; Drinking water ; Cooking ; Households ; Gender ; Public health ; Diabetes ; Hypertension / Sri Lanka / Mullaitivu / Vavuniya / Trincomalee / Anuradhapura / Polonnaruwa / Kurunegala / Matale / Ampara / Badulla / Monaragala
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H049322)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969719337088/pdfft?md5=b382fae99c90fac17e9317a17f42a220&pid=1-s2.0-S0048969719337088-main.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H049322.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H049322.pdf
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This analysis provides new estimates of chronic kidney disease (CKD) prevalence – including CKD of unknown etiology (CKDu) – across ten districts most affected by CKD in Sri Lanka, including an examination of rural households' historical reliance on groundwater consumption. A carefully designed household survey provides information on whether these households self-reported having a member in the decade prior to 2018, who had been clinically diagnosed with CKD. Households were classified according to whether or not they had used groundwater (from household wells, agro-wells or springs) as their primary source for drinking or cooking for at least five years between 1999 and 2018. More than 98% of households reported having consumed groundwater as their primary source of drinking or cooking water for at least five of those years and >15% of households reported having at least one CKD-affected member in the ten-year period up to 2018, but these numbers varied across and within districts. The reported characteristics of symptomatic individuals reveal that the incidence of CKD was significantly higher among females (62%) than males (38%). In addition to CKD, about 63% of symptomatic individuals had hypertension and about one-third of them also had diabetes. About 33% of the symptomatic individuals had neither diabetes nor hypertension, where this group most closely fits commonly used definitions of CKDu. With a survey response of over 8000 households comprising as many as 30,000 individuals, these data illustrate the scale of CKD in the most-affected districts of Sri Lanka on an aggregate basis as well as revealing differences across districts and at the sub-district level.
13 Balasubramanya, Soumya; Stifel, David; Horbulyk, Ted; Kafle, Kashi. 2020. Chronic kidney disease and household behaviors in Sri Lanka: historical choices of drinking water and agrochemical use. Economics and Human Biology, 37:100862. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ehb.2020.100862]
Kidney diseases ; Chronic course ; Drinking water treatment ; Groundwater ; Public health ; Risk factors ; Households ; Behaviour ; Agricultural practices ; Agrochemicals ; Farmland ; Water supply ; Wells ; Water purification ; Reverse osmosis ; Socioeconomic environment ; Rural areas ; Models / Sri Lanka / Mullaitivu / Vavuniya / Trincomalee / Anuradhapura / Polonnaruwa / Kurunegala / Matale / Ampara / Badulla / Monaragala
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H049541)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1570677X19302576/pdfft?md5=493e1025b9a9e466cbbde1bcad6be90c&pid=1-s2.0-S1570677X19302576-main.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H049541.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H049541.pdf
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This paper examines whether there are systematic differences in the historical behaviors of households that are affected and unaffected by chronic kidney disease (CKD) in Sri Lanka pertaining to their water source choices, water treatment practices, and agrochemical use. This analysis is motivated by the Sri Lankan government’s largest policy response to this epidemic – to encourage communities to switch from untreated well water to publicly provided alternatives. We use recall methods to elicit information on the drinking water source and treatment choices of households over an 18-year period from 2000– 2017. Our analysis is based on a survey of 1497 rural ground-water dependent households in the most CKD-affected areas of the 10 districts of Sri Lanka with the highest prevalence of CKD. Our main findings are that (a) households that have ever used a pump to extract (typically deep) drinking water from a household well are more likely to be affected by CKD; (b) we fail to find a relationship between disease status and households’ use of buckets to extract (typically shallow) groundwater from their wells; and (c) those who have ever treated their shallow well water by boiling it are less likely to be affected by CKD. We also find that a greater share of CKD affected households historically used agrochemicals, used wells that were geographically removed from surface water sources, and displayed lower proxies of wealth. The implications of these findings are fourfold. First, since the systematic differences in the historical patterns of water sources and treatments used by CKD affected and non-affected households are modest, the sources of water and the treatment practices themselves may not be the sole risk factors in developing CKD. Second, although we find a negative association between boiling water and the probability of CKD, it is not obvious that a public policy campaign to promote boiling water is an appropriate response. Third, the hydrochemistry of deep and shallow well water needs to be better understood in order to shed light on the positive relationship between deep well water and disease status, and on why boiling shallow but not deep well water is associated with a lower probability of CKD. Fourth, there is a need for a deeper understanding of other risk factors and of the efficacy of preventative programs that provide alternative sources of household drinking water.
14 Horbulyk, Theodore; Kafle, Kashi; Balasubramanya, Soumya. 2021. Community response to the provision of alternative water supplies: a focus on chronic kidney disease of unknown aetiology (CKDu) in rural Sri Lanka. Water International, 46(1):37-58. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/02508060.2020.1868124]
Kidney diseases ; Chronic course ; Aetiology ; Water supply ; Drinking water ; Water use ; Reverse osmosis ; Rainwater ; Wells ; Rural communities ; Households ; Risk assessment ; Safety ; Decision making ; Villages ; Institutions ; Nongovernmental organizations / Sri Lanka / Mullaitivu / Vavuniya / Trincomalee / Anuradhapura / Polonnaruwa / Kurunegala / Matale / Ampara / Badulla / Monaragala
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H050264)
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/02508060.2020.1868124?needAccess=true
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H050264.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H050264.pdf
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Until recently, households in the most chronic kidney disease-affected rural areas of Sri Lanka used untreated groundwater for drinking and cooking, but, by 2018, that share was only 35%. About 50% of households consume water treated by reverse osmosis; others rely on piped water, water delivery by tanker and rainwater harvesting. Based on a new and representative survey of 1500 households, households’ propensities to treat drinking water and adopt improved water sources are shown to be associated with their perceptions of water safety and trust in the institutions that provide alternatives to untreated well water.
15 Amarnath, Giriraj; Taron, Avinandan; Alahacoon, Niranga; Ghosh, Surajit. 2023. Bundled climate-smart agricultural solutions for smallholder farmers in Sri Lanka. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 7:1145147. [doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.2023.1145147]
Climate-smart agriculture ; Smallholders ; Farmers ; Weather index insurance ; Crop insurance ; Climate change ; Drought ; Agricultural extension ; Public-private partnerships ; Earth observation satellites ; Climate services ; Seed systems ; Climate resilience ; Advisory services ; Business models / Sri Lanka / Ampara / Anuradhapura / Monaragala / Kurunegala / Vavuniya
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H052475)
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fsufs.2023.1145147/pdf?isPublishedV2=False
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H052475.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H052475.pdf
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Smallholder farmers are among the most vulnerable to climate shocks in Sri Lanka. Lack of education and technical skills, poverty, risks inherent to agricultural investments, limited assets, and financial capital are major reasons for low investments in enhancing adaptive capacity. The study explores the use of agricultural technologies in improving smallholder resilience to water-related disasters and their opportunities for recovery. We tested four bundled services to promote climate-smart agriculture practices namely weather index insurance (WII), agronomic advisories dissemination via SMS, weather services, and climate-resilient seeds of maize and rice. The integrated solutions are referred to as Bundled Solutions of Index Insurance with Climate Information and Seed Systems (BICSA) to manage agricultural risks in Sri Lanka. The study conducted the bundled solutions in three agroecological regions spread over five districts and covering more than 2,500 farmers in three cropping periods of Maha and Yala seasons. The results demonstrate that providing bundled solutions significantly protects smallholders against moderate drought events. The satellite-based weather index insurance can offset the long-term consequences of severe yield losses and mitigate the long-term drop in farm productivity. Our findings demonstrate the importance of bundled insurance to mitigate financial risks associated with extreme weather events and enhance resilience to climate change among vulnerable smallholders. It is evident from the study promoting a viable business model among seed companies, insurance companies, and technological partners, along with public institutions such as agricultural extension services can help production-level improvements and develop strategies at both the farm and policy levels that will support a transition to a more resilient farming system.
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