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1 International Water Management Institute (IWMI). 2007. Rethinking tribal development: water management strategies for revitalizing tribal agriculture in central India. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). 6p. (IWMI Water Policy Briefing 027) [doi: https://doi.org/10.3910/2009.344]
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI 631.7 G635 INT Record No: H040240)
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A major drawback of India’s agriculture, watershed development and irrigation strategy has been the neglect of relatively wetter catchment areas and the tribal people living therein. Investing in small-scale interventions for improved water control can produce a dramatic impact on the productivity and dependability of tribal livelihood systems.
2 Pant, N.; Verma, R. K. 2010. Tanks in Eastern India: a study in exploration. Hyderabad, India: International Water Management Institute, IWMI-TATA Water Policy Research Program; Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India: Centre for Development Studies. 215p. [doi: https://doi.org/ 10.5337/2010.228]
Tanks ; Tank irrigation ; Fisheries ; Surveys ; Irrigated sites ; Ethnic groups ; Case studies ; Water market ; Colonialism ; Policy / India / Bihar / Jharkhand / West Bengal / Orissa
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 631.7.1 G635 PAN Record No: H044209)
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3 Pant, N.; Verma, R. K. 2010. Tanks in Eastern India: a study in exploration. Hyderabad, India: International Water Management Institute, IWMI-TATA Water Policy Research Program; Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India: Centre for Development Studies. 215p.
Tanks ; Tank irrigation ; Fisheries ; Surveys ; Irrigated sites ; Ethnic groups ; Case studies ; Water market ; Colonialism ; Policy / India / Bihar / Jharkhand / West Bengal / Orissa
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 631.7.1 G635 PAN c2 Record No: H044211)
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4 Banerjee, A. V.; Benabou, R.; Mookherjee, D. (Eds.) 2006. Understanding poverty. New York, NY, USA: Oxford University Press. 443p.
Poverty ; Colonialism ; Globalization ; Developing countries ; Income ; Child labour ; Policy ; Economic development ; Institutions ; Health ; Ethnic groups
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 339.46 G000 BAN Record No: H045081)
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5 Silva, K. T.; Sivapragasam, P. P.; Thanges, P. 2009. Casteless or caste-blind?: dynamics of concealed caste discrimination, social exclusion and protest in Sri Lanka. Copenhagen, Denmark: International Dalit Solidarity Network; New Delhi, India: Indian Institute of Dalit Studies; Colombo, Sri Lanka: Kumaran Book House. 180p.
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 305.512 G744 SIL Record No: H046207)
http://idsn.org/uploads/media/Casteless_or_Caste-blind_final_english_publication.pdf
http://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H046207_TOC.pdf
http://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H046207_TOC.pdf
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6 Barker, C. 2012. Cultural studies: theory and practice. 4th ed. London, UK: Sage. 552p.
Sociology ; Cultural factors ; Cultural behaviour ; Social behaviour ; Sex ; Languages ; Modernization ; Gender ; Women ; Ethnic groups ; Economic aspects ; Political aspects ; Urbanization ; Ideology ; Biology
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 306 G000 BAR Record No: H046472)
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7 Poffenberger, M. (Ed.) 2013. Cambodia's contested forest domain: the role of community forestry in the new millennium. Manila, Philippines: Ateneo de Manila University Press. 304p. (Asian Studies)
Forest conservation ; Natural resources ; Sustainable forest management ; Community forestry ; Communities ; Ethnic groups ; Indigenous peoples ; Forest policy ; Legal aspects ; Deforestation ; Forest degradation ; Climate change ; Development projects ; Ecology ; Land use ; Living standards ; Lakes ; Fisheries ; Case studies / Cambodia / Tonle Sap Lake / Oddar Meanchey Province / Kompong Phluk / Ratanakiri
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 634.92 G700 POF Record No: H046819)
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8 Buechler, S.; Hanson, A.-M. (Eds.) 2015. A political ecology of women, water and global environmental change. Oxon, UK: Routledge. 262p.
Political ecology ; Gender ; Women's participation ; Women in development ; Water resources ; Water management ; Environmental factors ; Globalization ; Partnerships ; Climate change ; Adaptation ; Water availability ; Water governance ; Watersheds ; Lakes ; Urban areas ; Rural settlement ; Mining ; Social aspects ; Violence ; Ethnic groups ; Riparian zones ; Sustainability ; Cultivation ; Irrigation methods ; Seaweeds ; Wastes / South Africa / USA / Brazil / Mexico / Egypt / Canada / Tajikistan / Lesotho / Los Angeles / Rayon / Sonora / Yucatan / Yukon Territory
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 305.42 G000 BUE Record No: H047093)
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9 Hellum, A.; Kameri-Mbote, P.; van Koppen, Barbara. (Eds.) 2015. Water is life: women’s human rights in national and local water governance in southern and eastern Africa. Harare, Zimbabwe: Weaver Press. 620p.
Human rights ; Gender ; Women ; Equity ; Ethnic groups ; Water resources ; Water governance ; Water scarcity ; Water rights ; Water law ; Water policy ; Domestic water ; Water use ; Water availability ; Water quality ; Water user associations ; Freshwater ; Sanitation ; Landscape ; Land ownership ; Land reform ; Common lands ; Legal aspects ; Legislation ; Economic aspects ; Political aspects ; Colonialism ; Social aspects ; Local authorities ; Rural areas ; Urban areas ; Suburban areas ; Irrigation schemes ; Small farms ; Standards ; Institutions ; Corporate culture ; Community organizations ; Multiple use ; Food security ; Households ; Living standards ; Case studies / South Africa / Kenya / Malawi / Zimbabwe / Africa South of Sahara / Nairobi / Mathare / Mpemba / Chileka / Harare / Domboshawa / Lake Naivasha Basin / Flag Boshielo Irrigation Scheme
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI Record No: H047293)
http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/Publications/Books/PDF/water_is_life.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H047293_TOC.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H047293_TOC.pdf
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10 Gachenga, E. 2015. Gender dimensions of customary water resource governance: Marakwet case study. In Hellum, A.; Kameri-Mbote, P.; van Koppen, Barbara. (Eds.) Water is life: women’s human rights in national and local water governance in southern and eastern Africa. Harare, Zimbabwe: Weaver Press. pp.179-214.
Water resources ; Water governance ; Water rights ; Water quality ; Gender ; Women ; Equity ; Irrigation water ; Domestic water ; Ethnic groups ; Communities ; Sanitation ; Case studies / Kenya
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI Record No: H047300)
11 Rutsate, E.; Derman, B.; Hellum, A. 2015. A hidden presence: women farm workers rights to water and sanitation in the aftermath of the fast track land reform. In Hellum, A.; Kameri-Mbote, P.; van Koppen, Barbara. (Eds.) Water is life: women’s human rights in national and local water governance in southern and eastern Africa. Harare, Zimbabwe: Weaver Press. pp.420-456.
Human rights ; Water rights ; Sanitation ; Land reform ; Social aspects ; Economic aspects ; Legal aspects ; Living standards ; Drinking water ; Farmers ; Ethnic groups
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI Record No: H047307)
12 Lebel, L.; Lebel, P.; Sriyasak, P.; Ratanawilailak, S.; Bastakoti, Ram C.; Bastakoti, G. B. 2015. Gender relations and water management in different eco-cultural contexts in northern Thailand. International Journal of Agricultural Resources, Governance and Ecology, 11(3/4):228-246. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1504/IJARGE.2015.074096]
Water management ; Water governance ; Water use ; Water users ; Water shortage ; Gender ; Women's participation ; Men ; Agrarian reform ; Urbanization ; Ethnic groups ; Households ; River basins ; Farmers ; Decision making ; Economic aspects ; Culture
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H047364)
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This paper assessed water management by households from three ethnic groups in two contrasting ecological settings (upland and lowland) in the Upper Ping River Basin in Northern Thailand. Important gender differences in the use and management of water were identified. Women are major users of water for agriculture in the uplands, but less so in the lowlands. In the lowlands irrigation is viewed as a masculine activity. In the uplands the role of women is more widely accepted, with women frequently being members of water user groups. Men, however, dominate ‘decision-making’ positions in communitybased and state-led water organisations in both upland and lowland areas. Perceptions of contributions to daily tasks, and behavioural traits important to governance roles, differed between men and women, and sometimes also across eco-cultural contexts, underlining the complexity of factors influencing gender relations in water governance.
13 De, I.; Nag, T. 2016. Local self-governance, ethnic division in slums and preference for water supply institutions in Kolkata, India. Water Policy, 18(3):750-768. [doi: https://doi.org/10.2166/wp.2015.127]
Water supply ; Institutions ; Local government ; Governance ; Privatization ; Water availability ; Water quality ; Water demand ; User charges ; Ethnic groups ; Slums ; Communities ; Households ; Religious groups ; Social aspects ; Caste systems ; Discrimination ; Economic situation ; Income ; Models / India / Kolkata
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H047613)
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This paper investigates the preferences for institutional mechanisms for improved water supply services across different ethnic communities in slums of Kolkata. The Muslim community prefers privatization of water supply as against paid public supply. The backward caste community prefers both paid public delivery and privatization. Residents of non-notified (NN) slums prefer paid public delivery as against privatization. Access to accountability mechanisms for water supply is lower for residents of Muslim dominated regions and NN areas. This is reflected by household perception about awareness of councilors regarding water supply conditions in the slums. The choice of alternative institution depends on the degree of risk of exclusion due to lack of access to accountability mechanisms. Notification of NN slums, higher revenue autonomy and capacity of local bodies, and innovations in scale neutral technologies may improve access to water supply by marginalized communities in slums.
14 Hiwasaki, L.; Culas, C.; Minh, T. T.; Senaratna Sellamuttu, Sonali; Douthwaite, B.; Elias, M.; Kawarazuka, N.; McDougall, C.; Pannier, E. 2016. Guidelines to engage with marginalized ethnic minorities in agricultural research for development in the Greater Mekong. Hanoi, Vietnam: World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) Southeast Asia Regional Program. 30p.
Agricultural research ; Agricultural sector ; Research and development ; Ethnic groups ; Minority groups ; Guidelines ; Gender ; Equity ; Households ; Decision making ; Living standards ; Social aspects ; Cultural behaviour ; Political aspects ; Economic aspects ; Eroded soils ; Erosion ; Sustainable agriculture ; On-farm research ; Domestic gardens ; Participatory approaches ; Stakeholders ; Case studies / Southeast Asia / Cambodia / Lao People's Democratic Republic / Myanmar / Thailand / Vietnam / China / Greater Mekong Subregion / Bolikhamxay Province / Yunnan Province / Kon Tum Province / Yen Bai Province / Houay Dou Catchment / Dien Bien Province / Gulmi Districts / Rupandehi Districts
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H047890)
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15 Pradhan, R.; Meinzen-Dick, R.; Theis, S. 2019. Property rights, intersectionality, and women's empowerment in Nepal. Journal of Rural Studies, 70:26-35. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2019.05.003]
Property rights ; Gender ; Role of women ; Empowerment ; Households ; Personal property ; Social aspects ; Customary law ; Ethnic groups ; Norms ; Living standards ; Life cycle / Nepal
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H049400)
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Property is widely recognized as an important resource for empowering women. Many development policies worldwide therefore call for strengthening women's rights to property, especially to physical assets such as land and livestock. However, the relationship between property and women's empowerment is more complex than generally assumed because of the overlapping and dynamic nature of property rights. In this paper, we explore how property rights affect the empowerment of women at different stages of the life cycle and different social locations, ethnicities, household structures, and social classes, using the lens of intersectionality. Drawing on ethnographic research conducted for the “Evaluation of the Welfare Impacts of a Livestock Transfer Program in Nepal,” we examine patterns in women's strategies to exercise specific rights over joint and personal property within their households. The findings show that legal categories of property rights in Nepal fail to account for nuanced rights to assets shared within households. Rather than emphasize individual control over assets for women's empowerment, the social relations around property need to be considered to understand which rights women value. The paper makes recommendations for how research and development projects, especially in South Asia, can avoid misinterpreting asset and empowerment data by incorporating nuance around the concepts of property rights over the life cycle.
16 Kramp, J.; Suhardiman, Diana; Keovilignavong, Oulavanh. 2022. (Un)making the upland: resettlement, rubber and land use planning in Namai village, Laos. Journal of Peasant Studies, 49(1):78-100. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2020.1762179]
Land use planning ; Rubber industry ; Resettlement ; Highlands ; Customary land rights ; Concession (land) ; Land governance ; State intervention ; Institutions ; Communities ; Ethnic groups ; Villages ; Social structure ; Farmers ; Strategies ; Cash crops ; Households / Lao People's Democratic Republic / Namai
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H049808)
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/03066150.2020.1762179?needAccess=true
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H049808.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H049808.pdf
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This paper highlights how farmers in a northern Lao village transformed their customary land rights – in the face of incoherent overlapping state territorialization attempts – into a territorial strategy to secure their land tenure. By planting rubber, some villagers have engaged in a crop boom to lay claim to land which has recently been zoned for upland rice cultivation (and conservation) as part of a state-led land use planning initiative. We show how internal resettlement, ethnic division and the influx of commercial agriculture in the Lao uplands intersect in a novel land use planning process and predetermine the plan’s actual significance.
17 Maund, P. R.; Irvine, K. N.; Dallimer, M.; Fish, R.; Austen, G. E.; Davies, Z. G. 2020. Do ecosystem service frameworks represent people’s values?. Ecosystem Services, 46:101221. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2020.101221]
Ecosystem services ; Frameworks ; Cultural values ; Social aspects ; Woodlands ; Natural capital ; Decision making ; Gender ; Ethnic groups ; Natural environment ; Biodiversity ; Models / United Kingdom
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H050108)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212041620301637/pdfft?md5=cd89702671e2cfc0fa0912e25a5366a3&pid=1-s2.0-S2212041620301637-main.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H050108.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H050108.pdf
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Since the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment was published, a plethora of ecosystem service frameworks have been developed to conceptualise the links between the natural environment and society. The intended geographic scales of application, the policy/practice context, and the scientific disciplines involved have driven variations in how the frameworks are constructed. However, the frameworks are homogenous in that they have been created predominately based on expert opinions and views of how ecosystem services are structured. Here, we use the Common International Classification of Ecosystem Services (CICES) to examine the extent to which frameworks capture people’s values for British woodlands. Our findings reveal several disparities between how experts and the public conceptualise ecosystem services. The considerable refinement and specificity provided by CICES does not align with public values (e.g. some provisioning, and regulation and maintenance, services), which tend to be more generalised. We also demonstrate differences in values explained by social characteristics (e.g. ethnicity) that need to be accounted for in decision-making processes. Moving forwards, we need to consider how society views the services derived from nature and reflect this in frameworks to ensure ecosystem service approaches are effective, transparent and widely supported.
18 Alvi, M.; Barooah, P.; Gupta, S.; Saini, S. 2021. Women's access to agriculture extension amidst COVID-19: insights from Gujarat, India and Dang, Nepal. Agricultural Systems, 188:103035. (Online first) [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agsy.2020.103035]
Agricultural extension systems ; Gender ; Women farmers ; Access to information ; COVID-19 ; Pandemics ; Resilience ; Agricultural productivity ; Social networks ; Households ; Ethnic groups ; Communities ; State intervention / South Asia / India / Nepal / Gujarat / Dang
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H050162)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0308521X20308969/pdfft?md5=770c598c6cc5e8954a4b9426e0f58cc0&pid=1-s2.0-S0308521X20308969-main.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H050162.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H050162.pdf
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COVID-19 induced lockdowns have had far reaching impacts on the rural sector, particularly on women farmers. These impacts have been exacerbated by lack of access to reliable and timely agriculture information. Using panel phone survey data from India and Nepal, we study how women's access to agricultural extension was impacted by the lockdowns and its effect on agricultural productivity. We find that women's already low access to formal extension was reduced further, leading to an increased reliance on informal social networks. In both countries, nearly 50% farmers reported negative impacts on productivity due to inaccessibility of information during the lockdown. In India, we find that access to formal extension is mediated by crop type, geographic location and caste identity. We discuss ways in which extension systems in India and Nepal can be made more inclusive and resilient to future crisis, including by adapting group and community-based approaches to post-pandemic best practices.
19 de Wit, S. 2021. Gender and climate change as new development tropes of vulnerability for the Global South: essentializing gender discourses in Maasailand, Tanzania. Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society, 24p. (Online first) [doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2021.1984638]
Gender ; Climate change ; Vulnerability ; Women ; Ethnic groups ; Indigenous people ; Cultural factors ; Human rights / United Republic of Tanzania / Terrat
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H050741)
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/25729861.2021.1984638?needAccess=true
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H050741.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H050741.pdf
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This article explores how international discourses on gender and climate change currently unfold for the Global South, and compares this with earlier gender discourses that traveled to Maasailand (Tanzania). By tracing the genealogy of older gender imaginaries, striking similarities emerge between the traveling discourses which position (African) women as vulnerable. This article argues against the feminization of climate change: the simplistic and historical reproduction of vulnerability along gender binaries. Gender and climate change discourses repeat historical productions of vulnerability and development that lead to a tendency to speak for rather than listen to the very women the discourses seek to support. I argue that more research is needed to understand what women do to live with climate change and its emergent discourses instead of focusing merely on what “climate change does to women.” Discourses on gender and climate change need critical insight from de- and post-colonial critiques of development and (eco)feminist scholarship that foregrounds gender’s intersectional, productive dimensions and agentive qualities. Essentializing categories like the “feminization of poverty” and women as “victims of culture” should serve as cautionary tales for climate change, which can be used by those in power to obscure more urgent problems, such as increasing land dispossession.
20 Hiwasaki, L.; Minh, Thai Thi. 2022. Negotiating marginality: towards an understanding of diverse development pathways of ethnic minorities in Vietnam. Journal of International Development, 34(8):1455-1475. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/jid.3646]
Ethnic minorities ; Ethnic groups ; Marginalization ; Development policies ; Social inequalities ; Social differentiation ; Livelihoods ; Transformation ; Living standards ; Assets ; Natural capital ; Human capital ; Cultural capital ; Social capital ; Socioeconomic development ; Political aspects ; Strategies ; Frameworks / Vietnam
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H051153)
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Existing studies on socio-economic differentiation in Vietnam focus on the inequality between the ethnic majority and minorities while neglecting the disparities among ethnic minorities. Using a framework to analyse marginalisation at different scales, we identified through an extensive literature review the diverse ways in which ethnic groups develop strategies to transform or maintain their marginality. These strategies depend on, at the same time influence, inequalities that manifest in processes of social differentiations and power relations. Elucidating these processes of inequalities enables us to promote livelihood opportunities that support the diverse development pathways of different ethnic groups, thus increasing the relevance of development interventions.
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