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1 World Bank. East Africa Projects Department. Southern Agriculture Division. 1983. Zimbabwe agriculture sector study. Washington, DC, USA: World Bank. pp 46-90. (World Bank report no. 4401 - 21M)
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 338.1 G138 WOR Record No: H0138)
2 Salazar, L. J. 1983. Water management for small farms: A training manual for farmers in hill areas - Instructors guide. Fort Collins, CO, USA: Water Management Synthesis Project. Colorado State University. 31p.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 631.7.6.2 G000 SAL Record No: H0473)
3 Farrington, J.; Abeysekera, W. A. T. 1979. Issues in farm power and water use in Sri Lanka. Colombo, Sri Lanka: ARTI. iii, 45 p.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 631.371 G744 FAR Record No: H0437)
4 Bromley, D. W. 1982. Improving irrigated agriculture: Institutional reform and the small farmer. Washington, DC, USA: World Bank. [10], 85 p. (World Bank staff working paper no. 531)
(Location: IWMI-SA Call no: 631.7.8 G635 BRO Record No: H0492)
Irrigation is a technological and institutional innovation which permits cultivation of lands otherwise ill-suited to agriculture. The institutional environment in which irrigation takes place is critical to the successful operation of any system. This institutional environment has received little analytical attention by those concerned with irrigation. A model of farmer interdependence is developed and is related to the concept of farmers as cautious optimizers. This allows a focus on institutional uncertainty as a major impediment to creating irrigation systems which meet both efficiency and equity goals. Suggestions for improving existing irrigation systems--and for designing new ones--are derived from the framework.
5 Pant, N. 1984. Community tubewell: An organizational alternative to small farmers' irrigation in East Gangetic plains. Economic and Political Weekly, June:A59-A66 p.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: P 1304 Record No: H0579)
6 Sri Lanka. Ministry of Irrigation, Power and Highways; Sri Lanka. Mahaweli Development Board. 1972. Mahaweli Ganga development - Project 1: Feasibility study for stage II. Volume 1 - Feasibility Report (Volume I of VIII) Grenoble, France: xv, 84p.
River basins ; Water distribution ; Canals ; Tank irrigation ; Farms ; Water supply ; Evaporation ; Drainage ; Irrigation systems ; Water requirements / Sri Lanka / Mahaweli Project
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: R 631.7 G744 SRI Record No: H0719)
Library has Vol. I, II,III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII
7 Lipton, M.; Longhurst, R. 1985. Modern varieties, international agricultural research, and the poor. Washington, DC, USA: World Bank. xi, 139 p. (CGIAR study paper no. 2)
Innovations ; Agricultural research ; Crops ; Developing countries ; Economic aspects ; Farms ; Labor
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 631 G000 LIP Record No: H0776)
8 Keller, J.; Plocher, A. 1984. Taking advantage of modern irrigation in developing countries. Paper prepared for presentation at a special invitational session at the Twelfth International Congress on Irrigation and Drainage, Fort Collins, Colorado USA, 28 May - 2 June 1984. Houston, TX, USA: Lindsay International Sales Corporation. 21p.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: P 109 Record No: H0791)
This paper explores the potential for using modern (in place of traditional) irrigation technologies in developing countries with emphasis on center pivot irrigation. Items discussed include: The rather phenomenal growth and interesting advantages of center pivot irrigation development; design and planning options for using modern irrigation technologies; successful development experiences and cost factors related to utilizing center pivots in developing countries; and the concept, potential and relative advantages (over traditional) irrigation development) of utilizing center pivots to supply "controlled rain" to relatively undisturbed communities of small private farms.
9 Howard Humphreys and Partners; Thailand. Royal Irrigation Department. 1984. Summary of Sukhothai Groundwater Development Project. 38p.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: P 662 Record No: H0965)
10 Zaidi, I. H. 1967. The spatial pattern of farm sizes in the Punjab region of West Pakistan. Pakistan Geographical Review, 22(2):61-76.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: P 1387 Record No: H01206)
11 Palmer, I. 1985. The impact of agrarian reform on women. West Hartford, CT, USA: Kumarian Press. xvi, 55p. (Women's roles & gender differences in development no.6)
Rural women ; Developing countries ; Land ownership ; Land development ; Farms ; Land reform ; Settlement / China
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 331.483 G000 PAL Record No: H01825)
12 Johnston, B. F.; Tomich, T. P. 1984. Feasibility of small farm development strategies. Washington, DC, USA: AID. Bureau of Policy & Program Coordination. 130 p.
Development policy ; Farms ; Economic impact ; Agricultural development ; Irrigated farming ; Food production
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 631.7.8 G000 JOH Record No: H01847)
This paper tries to identify the circumstances in which small farm development strategies are feasible and represent an economically efficient approach to achieving the increases in food production, consumption, and employment that are necessary conditions for economic and social progress in developing countries and (2) to examine the prospects and the means for overcoming the formidable obstacles to the design and implementation of dispersal strategies leading to widespread increases in productivity and output among a large and growing percentage of the small farm units that inevitably predominate in most low-income and many middle income countries.
13 Moya, T. B. 1981. Water distribution within the Lower Talavera River Irrigation System tertiaries. Paper prepared for A/D/C Workshop on Investment Decisions to Further Develop and Make Use of Southeast Asia's Irrigation Resources, Bangkok, Thailand, 17-21 August 1981.
Irrigation programs ; Rivers ; Water distribution ; Farms ; Rice ; Agricultural production ; Farmer participation ; Water supply / Philippines / Central Luzon
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: P 166 Record No: H01914)
Three turnout areas each located from the upstream, middle and downstream sections of Lateral A of the Lower Talavera River Irrigation System in Central Luzon, Philippines were selected during the 1979 dry season to document the extent of farm water distribution problems. In order of decreasing importance, the following physical parameters were found to influence water distribution on the farms: (a) farm elevation relative to their turnouts, (b) accessibility to the (supply) farm ditches, (c) percentage sand sized particles in the soil and (d) farm ditch density. The paddy overland distance from the turnout becomes a significant problem in water distribution interacting with cases of inadequate hydraulic working head at the turnout. Some of the common farmer's interference behavior, such as checking, breaking embankment, closing and opening of turnout gates at will, and disturbing measuring devices are, in large measure, their rational responses to a physical system that does not fit well to their needs and desires. An improved design method, the "Custom Fit Design Technique" was introduced to account for the topographically high paddies that are frequently included in the service areas of most gravity systems. Hence, resulting in the layouts and design of field distribution network that reflects well the existing topography.
14 Ekanayake, S. A. B. 1987. Micro level planning, economic performance and human capital: A study of the settler farmers in Mahaweli Project in Sri Lanka. Unpublished thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy of the Australian National University. 246p.
Irrigation programs ; Economic impact ; Labor ; Settlement ; Farms ; Irrigation efficiency ; Green revolution ; Social aspects / Sri Lanka / Mahaweli Project
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 631.7.3 G744 EKA Record No: H02213)
New technologies, irrigation and changes in the broader socio-economic environment are often major causes of disequilibria in the decision making environment of farmers in developing countries. The pace and pattern of their adjustment to new situations has concentrated on the adoption process of new technologies as a whole or in terms of particular component practices. However, situations where farmers are required to adopt and adjust to a single component practice while other elements of their environment remain static are rare. Technologies often appear in the form of packages and accompany broader socio-economic changes. In this thesis a conceptual framework which draws heavily on human capital theory is developed to address broad issues of farmer adjustment to simultaneous changes in many aspects of their environment. This framework is applied to farm survey data gathered from a sample within the Pilot Phase of the Mahaweli Project. The empirical analysis utilizes stochastic frontier production functions to obtain measures of technical and allocative efficiencies of individual farmers which reflect their technical and allocative abilities. The analysis was conducted at two levels, using market and economic prices. The findings show that different types of human capital have significantly different impacts on the ability of farmers to adjust to specific changes in technological and environmental factors; the major source of losses to the economy is shown to be farm level inefficiencies rather than price distortions; and the differential performance of farmers resulting from varying ability to adjust to disequilibria and the heterogeneity in farm micro environments are shown to result in an unequal distribution of income unanticipated by planners, but significant in terms of future consequences.
15 Senaka Arachchi, R. B. 1985. Non farm employment in the rural sector of Sri Lanka: Trends and prospects. Colombo, Sri Lanka: Department of Economics. University of Colombo. 36p. (Department of Economics seminar paper no.4/85)
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 331 G744 SEN Record No: H02505)
16 Wimaladharma, K. P. (Ed.) 1982. Land settlement experiences in Sri Lanka. Colombo, Sri Lanka: Karunaratne & Sons. i, 216 p.
Settlement ; Land development ; Farms ; Labor ; Cultivation ; Irrigation management ; Agricultural development / Sri Lanka
(Location: IWMI-SA Call no: 631.7.8 G744 WIM Record No: H02628)
Selected papers from the seminar sponsored by USAID and Ministry of Lands and Land Development, Colombo, Sri Lanka, 6-8 April
17 Humphreys, A. S. 1986. Automated farm surface irrigation systems worldwide. New Delhi, India: ICID. x, 92p.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 631.7.6.2 G000 HUM Record No: H02785)
18 Lim, C. C. 1976. Irrigation development and present status of farm water management in Malaysia. In Japan. Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, Tropical Agriculture Research Center, Symposium on Water Management in Rice Fields, August 1975. Ibaraki, Japan: The Ministry. pp.33-39. (Tropical agriculture research series no. 9)
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 631.7 G570 JAP Record No: H02954)
19 Lewis, J. A. 1976. On farm supplementary irrigation requirement for rice in the dry zone of Sri Lanka. In Japan. Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, Tropical Agriculture Research Center, Symposium on Water Management in Rice Fields, August 1975. Ibaraki, Japan: The Ministry. pp.131-137. (Tropical agriculture research series no. 9)
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 631.7 G570 JAP Record No: H02961)
20 Lim, C. C. 1976. Some aspects of farm water management in Malaysia. In Japan. Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, Tropical Agriculture Research Center, Symposium on Water Management in Rice Fields, August 1975. Ibaraki, Japan: The Ministry. pp.263-272. (Tropical agriculture research series no. 9)
Rice ; Water management ; Farms ; Water distribution ; Water control ; Drainage ; Irrigated farming / Malaysia
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 631.7 G570 JAP Record No: H02971)
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