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1 Wade, R.. 1980. The state and irrigation performance in South Korea. Journal of Rural Development, 3:253-267.
Policy ; Irrigated farming ; Governmental interrelations ; Resource management ; Financing / Korea Republic
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: P 1353 Record No: H0857)
2 Wade, R.. Making better use of water: Institutional innovations in India's command area development programme. 29p.
Water use efficiency ; Financing ; Land development ; Canals ; Water distribution ; Surface irrigation / India
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: P 345 Record No: H01547)
3 Wade, R.. 1976. How not to redistribute with growth: The case of India's Command Area Development Programme. Pacific Viewpoint, 14-17:95-104.
(Location: IWMI-SA Call no: P 1427 Record No: H01565)
4 Wade, R.. 1986. The World Bank and India's irrigation reform. Journal of Development Studies, 18(2):171-184.
(Location: IWMI-SA Call no: P 1428 Record No: H01564)
The decisions to be taken on canal irrigation in India during the next five years will have repercussions well into the next century, and the World Bank's role in those decisions will be substantial. Yet the Bank's approach to improving existing canal systems and designing new ones fails to match the components of the approach with their environments. This paper suggests that in a wide range of social and physical environments the Bank's proposals are likely to give little net benefit compared with alternatives. An alternative way of thinking about irrigation improvement programs would emphasize operational procedures and the information 'system'.
5 Wade, R.. 1981. The information problem of south Indian irrigation canals. Water Supply & Management, 5(1):31-51.
(Location: IWMI-SA Call no: P 1212 Record No: H01728)
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6 Wade, R.. 1984. Managing a drought with canal irrigation: A south Indian case. Agricultural Administration, 17(4):177-202.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: PER Record No: H01765)
7 Wade, R.; Chambers, R. 1980. Managing the main system: Canal irrigation's blind spot. Economic and Political Weekly, 15(39):A107-A112.
Irrigation operation ; Primary level irrigation ; Performance evaluation ; Water use efficiency / South Asia / South East Asia
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: P 1294 Record No: H01706)
Irrigation will continue to get very high priority in strategies to increase food production and labor absorption in agriculture. But plans for irrigation investment in South and Southeast Asia are being made with too little attention to diagnosing the causes of the generally disappointing performance of large, publicly-operated canal systems. One set of causes, which the authors argue here are very important, are simply not considered; they are 'screened out' from consideration from the very beginning. The remedies are hence unlikely to have the effects expected of them.
8 Wade, R.. 1982. Irrigation and agricultural politics in South Korea. Boulder, CO, USA: Westview Press. xv, 172p.
Agricultural policy ; Irrigation management ; Farmers' associations ; Farmer managed irrigation systems ; Governmental interrelations ; Legislation / Korea Republic
(Location: IWMI-SA Call no: 631.7.8 G702 WAD Record No: H01776)
9 Wade, R.. 1985. On the sociology of irrigation: How do we know the truth about canal performance. Agricultural Administration, 19(2):63-79.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: P 1497 Record No: H01980)
The methods used to collect irrigation statistics in India give rise to very large margins of error. The unreliability of the data throws into question the utility of careful economic analyses of irrigation projects. More importantly, it means that in the case of large surface- flow schemes canal officials cannot manage the system in the absence of reliable information about the system's output; they can only administer the inputs. This is an important constraint on better performance. To improve the information system attention has to be given not only to the hardware but also to the incentives which bear on those who collect statistics.
10 Wade, R.. 1981. Collective responsibility in Phillipino irrigation: A new approach. Economic and Political Weekly, 16:99-102.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: P 1250 Record No: H01969)
11 Wade, R.. 1979. Collective responsibility in construction and management of irrigation canals, case of Italy. Economic and Political Weekly, 14(51 & 52):A155-A160.
Irrigation design ; Institutions ; Tube wells ; Canals ; Farmers' associations ; Governmental interrelations ; Farmer participation / Italy
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: P 1295 Record No: H01970)
12 Wade, R.. 1985. Managing water managers: Deterring expropriation, or equity as a control mechanism. In Jordan, W. R. (Ed.) Water and water policy in world food supplies: Proceedings of the Conference, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA, 26-30 May 1985. pp.177-184.
Water control ; Farmer-agency interactions ; Performance evaluation ; Canals ; Irrigation operation ; Maintenance ; Equity / India
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 333.91 G000 JOR Record No: H02221)
The performance of canal irrigation systems depends, in part, on trust by farmers in the good faith and abilities of irrigation officials. In India, this trust is typically lacking; there is, instead, a 'syndrome of anarchy' under the canals, in which farmers lack the confidence that if they refrain from taking water out of turn they will get water on time, and officials lack confidence that if they work conscientiously to get the water on time, farmers will refrain from rule-breaking. To break the syndrome, changes need to be made in the relationship between O & M and construction; in the source of the O & M budget; and in the geographical scope of the O & M organization. The East Asian Irrigation Associations provide an example of the direction in which institutional changes should be made. Changes in physical design can also help; particularly the punctuation of the hydraulic system at a point within the ken of farmers, by means of a break-point reservoir.
13 Wade, R.. 1985. Common property resource management in south Indian villages. Paper prepared for conference on Management of Common Property Resources in the Third World, Washington, DC, USA, April 1985. 30p.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: P 342 Record No: H02248)
14 Wade, R.. 1982. Employment, water control, and water supply institutions: South India and South Korea. Sussex, UK: IDS. 53 p. (IDS discussion paper 182)
Employment ; Water control ; Water supply ; Institutions ; Irrigation efficiency ; Food production ; Labor / India / Korea Republic
(Location: IWMI-SA Call no: 631.7.6.2 G635 WAD Record No: H02266)
15 Wade, R.. 1982. Group action for irrigation. Economic and Political Weekly, 17(39):A103-A106.
(Location: IWMI-SA Call no: P 1239 Record No: H02360)
16 Wade, R.; Seckler, D. 1986. Issues in the management of irrigation systems. In Seckler, D., The contributions of management science to the management of irrigation of irrigation systems. Summarized proceedings of papers related to central theme presented at workshop held from 15-18 April 1986. pp.62-82.
Irrigation management ; Monitoring ; Irrigation design ; Legal aspects ; Social aspects ; Water rights ; Governmental interrelations ; Farmer participation ; Farmer-agency interactions ; Policy
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 631.7.8 G000 SEC Record No: H03223)
17 Wade, R.. 1980. Mobilization of local resources for irrigation: Supportive changes in canal irrigation. Paper presented at the Agricultural Development Council's seminar on Mobilizing Local Resources for Irrigation, Colombo, Sri Lanka, 11-15 August 1980. 17 p.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: P 126 Record No: H03426)
18 Wade, R.. 1982. The system of administrative and political corruption: Canal irrigation in South India. Journal of Development Studies, 18(3):287-328.
(Location: IWMI-SA Call no: P 1237 Record No: H03483)
19 Wade, R.. 1984. Irrigation reform in conditions of populist anarchy: An Indian case study. Journal of Development Economics, 14:285-303.
Corruption ; Irrigation canals ; Political aspects ; Investment ; Irrigated farming ; Public policy / India
(Location: IWMI-SA Call no: P 1238 Record No: H03482)
20 Wade, R.. 1988. The management of irrigation systems: How to evoke trust and avoid prisoner's dilemma. World Development, 16(4):489-500.
Irrigation programs ; Irrigation management ; Farmer-agency interactions ; Constraints ; Environmental effects ; Organization of work ; Water distribution ; Equity ; Irrigation scheduling / India
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: PER Record No: H03689)
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