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1 Morfit, M. 1983. Community management of small scale irrigation: The case of the High Performance Sederhana Irrigation System Pilot Project in Indonesia - A report on the Asia Regional Committee on Community Management. Report prepared for USAID, Jakarta, Indonesia. 26p.
Irrigation programs ; Small scale systems ; Community development ; Governmental interrelations ; Evaluation / Indonesia
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: P 972 Record No: H0755)
2 Lees, S. H. 1973. Sociopolitical aspects of canal irrigation in the valley of Oaxaca. Vol. 2. Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA: University of Michigan. xi, 141p. (Memoirs of the Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan no.6)
Canals ; Water control ; Governmental interrelations ; Environment ; History ; Community development ; Economic aspects / Mexico
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 631.7.3 G404 LEE Record No: H0854)
3 Maza, R. B. 1985. Farmers participation on irrigation development and management: Indonesia. Report prepared for USAID, Jakarta, Indonesia. iii, 167 p.
Irrigation management ; Farmer participation ; Irrigation systems ; Tertiary level irrigation ; Attitudes ; Community development / Indonesia
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: P 622 Record No: H0861)
This report provides a general background of the Sederhana Irrigation Project and how The High Performance Sederhana Irrigation Project (HPSIS) was conceived and implemented. The seven irrigation systems selected as case studies out of the twenty one sites provides data on the technical and managerial aspects of the project at the local level. The systems included here represents cases for each category of project site as follows. 1. Where both major works and tertiary works are complete: a. Cumanggala, West Java; b. Mencongah, West Nusa Tenggara. 2. Where major works is complete and tertiary works to be constructed: a. Way Awi II, Lampung; b. Kocikang, South Sulawesi; c. Belekere, West Nusa Tenggara. 3. Both major works and tertiary works are to be constructed: a. Muncan, West Nusa Tenggara; b. Tangjung Bataut, West Sumatra The first category of project sites are examples on how a dilapidated and poorly operating system was made into a high performing system through the employment of community organizers. The second category shows how passive attitudes of a government agency to the suggestions of the farmers would affect farmers participation and how these agencies changed attitude during the process. It shows how farmers participated during the design and construction of the irrigation system with full support of the government agencies. The third category of projects are examples of projects where the farmers capability were tested in revising design and constructing the irrigation system.
4 Perera, J. 1985. New dimensions of social stratification in rural Sri Lanka. Colombo, Sri Lanka: Lake House. xv, 211p.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 301 G744 PER Record No: H0871)
5 Kilkelly, M. K. 1986. Women's roles in irrigated agricultural production systems during the 1985 Yala season: Parakrama Samudra Scheme and Giritale Scheme, Polonnaruwa district, Sri Lanka. Colombo, Sri Lanka: USAID. xiv, 80 p.
Irrigated farming ; Women ; Agricultural production ; Health ; Community development ; Settlement ; Income ; Expenditure ; Agriculture ; Nutrition / Sri Lanka
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 631.7.8 G744 KIL Record No: H0883)
6 Weeramunda, A. J. 1985. Report on water management at Kimbulwana Oya Scheme. 68p.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: P 448 Record No: H0921)
7 Kay, M. 1985. Small scale irrigation schemes in sub-Saharan Africa. Options paper commissioned for the International Fund for Agricultural Development. Silsoe, Bedford, UK: Silsoe College. 46p.
Irrigation systems ; Farmers' associations ; Community development ; Institution building ; Agricultural policy ; Food policy / Africa South of Sahara
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: P 607 Record No: H0977)
8 Yoder, R.; Martin, E. 1983. Identification and utilization of farmer resources in irrigation development: A guide for rapid appraisal. Paper prepared for the Rural Area Development - Rapti Zone Project by the Nepal Irrigation Research Project, Cornell University. 18p.
Water allocation ; Water distribution ; Resource management ; Conflict ; Organizations ; Community development / Nepal
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: P 872 Record No: H0980)
9 Abeyratne, S.; Perera, J. 1984. Changes in irrigation management in small communities: A tank and anicut system in Moneragala district, Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka Journal of Agrarian Studies, 5(1):71-84.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: P 1424 Record No: H01119)
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This paper is based on field data collected on a tank and an anicut irrigation system in Moneragala district. It attempts to understand the differences in institutional arrangements for irrigation water management as a consequence of differences in water source. The paper shows how with State penetration the institutional apparatus for irrigation management introduced at the local levels by the State has resulted in the blurring of differences that could have been attributed to the irrigation source. The paper also demonstrates how State penetration has contributed to a diminishing of the importance of the irrigation system from a social point of view while conversely increasing its importance from an economic point of view, not the least because of the increased value which irrigation has given to paddy land. The question which remains to be answered is what the consequences of increased State involvement, irrigation system refurbishment and in subsequent irrigation management are for issues of irrigation efficiency and equity in distribution.
10 Lynch, B. D. 1982. The Vicos experiment: A study of the impacts of the Cornell-Peru project in a highland community. Washington, DC, USA: USAID. vii, 111 p. (AID evaluation special study no. 7)
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 307.72 G530 LYN Record No: H01278)
11 Ramamurthy, P. 1984. Irrigation and organization on the BDSL District, Andhra Pradesh, India. 18p.
Community development ; Farmers' associations ; Social aspects ; Political aspects / India / Andhra Pradesh
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: P 1056 Record No: H01417)
12 Bouton, M. M. 1984. The ecology of irrigation in Thanjavur district, South India. Preliminary draft of paper prepared for the Conference on Community Responses to Irrigation in South Asia, Bangalore, India, 4-7 January 1984. 59p.
Irrigated farming ; Agricultural production ; Community development ; Irrigation canals / India / Tamil Nadu
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: P 809 Record No: H01443)
13 Awan, N. M.; Latif, M. 1983. Indices of SCARPS achievements and emerging socio-economic pattern of farming community. Lahore, Pakistan: Centre of Excellence in Water Resources Engineering. In Centre of Excellence in Water Resources Engineering, Proceedings of the International Seminar on Water Resources Management, Lahore, 22-27 October 1983 (pp. 214-227). Lahore: Centre of Excellence in Water Resources Engineering.
Land reclamation ; Land tenure ; Salinity ; Social aspects ; Economic aspects ; Community development
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 631.7.1 G570 CEN Record No: H01485)
14 Mitchell, W. P. Irrigation farming in the Andes: Evolutionary implications. In R. Halperin and D. Dow (Eds.), Peasant livelihood: Studies in economic anthropology and cultural ecology (pp. 36-59). New York: St. Martin's Press.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 631.7 G530 MIT Record No: H01519)
This paper examines the role of irrigation in the farming and communal life of a village in the Peruvian Andes by examining the organization of irrigation activities. Irrigation here is an adaptation to high altitude agriculture as it is organized in higher and lower zones. Dry and rainy seasons imply different principles of water distribution as well. By modifying the effects of natural ecological conditions, irrigation broadens the range of crops grown at high altitudes. The regulation and celebration of irrigation are significant aspects of the political and ritual life of the community. A dual residential barrio organization structures a dual irrigation system which is, in turn, based on dual drainage systems founded on the natural hydrology of the mountain slope. The information from the contemporary community of Quinua is used to illuminate the water needs of Huari, an important archeological site located there. Mitchell suggests the probability that the patterns of irrigation control found in Quinua represent an ancient Andean structure and discusses the significance of the data for Wittfogel's and Steward's hydraulic hypothesis. The data suggest that irrigation was significant in the local community, but not in the evolution of the larger bureaucratic state in highland Peru.
15 Myers, R. H. Economic organization and cooperation in modern China: Irrigation management in Xing-tai county, Ho-bei province. 189-212p.
Irrigation management ; Economic analysis ; Farmer participation ; Community development ; Resource management / China
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: P 311 Record No: H01510)
16 Williams, A. W. San Ignacio Cuatemoc: A canal irrigating community in the Tehuacan valley. Anthropological Quarterly,
Canals ; Water user associations ; Community development ; Farmer managed irrigation systems ; Irrigation practices / Mexico
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: P 1225 Record No: H01523)
17 Bogaert, M. V. D. 1986. Motivating the motivators, training of WMVA members in water management. In Workshop on Self-sufficiency and Self-reliance in Water Management by Villagers, Jamshedpur, India, 21-23 October 1986. 5p.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: P 349 Record No: H01555)
18 Ghosh, A. K. 1986. Need and role of local organization in management of water resources. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Self-sufficiency and Self-reliance in Water Management by Villagers, Jamshedpur, India, 21-23 October 1986. pp.13-17.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: P 349 Record No: H01552)
19 Jagawat, H. 1986. Note on irrigation potential in the tribal areas of Panchmahal. In Workshop on Self-sufficiency and Self-reliance in Water Management by Villagers, Jamshedpur, India, 21-23 October 1986. 7p.
Water resource management ; Community development ; Irrigation effects ; Forest management ; Runoff water ; Low lift irrigation ; Policy / India
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: P 349 Record No: H01554)
20 Khan, S. S. 1982. Mahaweli Project: A case study from Sri Lanka. Paper presented at Workshop on water management in Sri Lanka, Colombo, Sri Lanka, 20-22 January 1982. 22p.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: P 456 Record No: H01572)
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