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1 Palmer, I. 1985. The impact of male out-migration on women in farming. West Hartford, CT, USA: Kumarian Press. xviii, 78p. (Women's roles & gender differences in development no.7)
Rural women ; Farming ; Developing countries ; Labor allocation ; Migrant labor / South Africa / Near East / Yemen / Pakistan / Egypt / Turkey
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 331.483 G000 PAL Record No: H01827)
2 Konings, P. 1981. Peasantry and state in Ghana: The example of the Vea Irrigation Project in the upper region of Ghana. Leiden, Ghana: Department of Political Science and History. Africa-Studiecentrum. 52p.
Peasant workers ; Irrigation programs ; Cash crops ; Land ; Colonialism ; Rural development ; Migrant labor ; Governmental interrelations / Ghana
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 631.7.3 G200 KON Record No: H04056)
3 Jayaraman, T. K. 1979. Seasonal migration of tribal labor: An irrigation project in Gujarat. Economic and Political Weekly, 13 October:1727-1732.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: P 2035 Record No: H08919)
4 Adams, R. H. 1991. The effects of international remittances on poverty, inequality and development in rural Egypt. Washington, DC, USA: IFPRI. 88p. (IFPRI Research Report 86)
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 338.9 G232 ADA Record No: H010319)
5 Padermchai, P.; Shinawatra, B. 1992. Female out-migration in Amphoe Dok Kham Tai, Phayao Province, Thailand and its impact on rice farming systems. Paper presented at the International Workshop on Gender Concerns in Rice Farming, Chiangmai, Thailand, 20-25 October 1992. 10p.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: P 2436/15 Record No: H011448)
6 Gisbert, M. E.; Painter, M.; Quiton, M. 1992. Women's work in areas of male out-migration. Development Anthropology Network, 10(2):3-10.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: P 2694 Record No: H012181)
7 World Bank. 1995. World development report 1995: workers in an integrating world. New York, NY, USA: Oxford University Press (OUP) for the World Bank. ix, 251p.
Labor productivity ; Labor costs ; Migrant labor ; Policy ; Wage rates ; Households ; Women ; Employment ; Economic aspects ; Agricultural manpower ; Human resources ; Statistics
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 330.9 G000 WOR Record No: H018286)
8 Pinnawala, M. 1997. The impact of changes in rice farming technology on seasonal migration of women. In Wickramasinghe, A. (Ed.), Development issues across regions: Women, land and forestry. Peradeniya, Sri Lanka: University of Peradeniya. Department of Geography. CORRENSA. pp.16-27.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 630.88042 G570 WIC Record No: H022479)
9 Pender, J. 1999. Rural population growth, agricultural change and natural resource management in developing countries: A review of hypotheses and some evidence from Honduras. Unpublished paper, IFPRI. Environment and Production Technology Division. Washington, DC, USA. 81p. (EPTD discussion paper no.48)
Population growth ; Households ; Natural resources ; Resource management ; Agricultural production ; Investment ; Land development ; Migrant labor ; Infrastructure ; Rural development ; Institution building ; Organizational development ; Developing countries / Honduras
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: P 5354 Record No: H025357)
10 ESCAP. 1992. Migration and urbanization in Asia and the Pacific: Interrelationships with socio-economic development and evolving policy issues - Selected papers of the Pre-Conference Seminar, Fourth Asian and Pacific Population Conference, Seoul, 21-25 January 1992. New York, NY, USA: UN. vii, 117p. (Asian population studies series no.111)
Social development ; Economic development ; Urbanization ; Migrant labor ; Women ; Population growth / Asia / Korea Republic / Sri Lanka / Thailand / Indonesia / Java / Philippines / India / Vietnam / China / Pacific Islands / Papua New Guinea / Iran / Colombo
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 304.6 G570 ESC Record No: H025501)
11 Bebbington, A. 1999. Capitals and capabilities: A framework for analysing peasant viability, rural livelihoods and poverty in the Andes. London, UK: IIED. 54p. (Policies that work for sustainable agriculture and regenerating rural economies series)
Peasant workers ; Rural development ; Rural economy ; Natural resources ; Policy ; Sustainability ; Poverty ; Living standards ; Households ; Migrant labor ; Industrialization / Latin America / Chile / Bolivia / Ecuador / Andes / Colta / Ayacucho
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 338.9 G505 BEB Record No: H025804)
12 Hayami, Y.; Kikuchi, M. 2000. A rice village saga: Three decades of green revolution in the Philippines. Lanham, MD, USA: Barnes & Noble. xviii, 274p.
Rice ; Crop yield ; Fertilizers ; Farmers' associations ; Water user associations ; Agricultural economics ; Agricultural production ; Irrigation management ; Villages ; Local government ; Social structure ; Settlement ; Population growth ; Households ; Landlessness ; Employment ; Migrant labor ; Female labor ; Land reform ; Equity ; Land tenure ; Land ownership ; Income distribution ; Institutional development ; Peasant workers ; Poverty ; Industrialization ; Exports / Philippines / Laguna
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 338.1 G732 HAY Record No: H026217)
13 Dunham, D.; Edwards, C. 1997. Rural poverty and agrarian crisis in Sri Lanka, 1985-95: Making sense of the picture. Colombo, Sri Lanka: Institute of Policy Studies. 49p. (Poverty and income distribution series no.1)
Rural economy ; Poverty ; Agricultural society ; Rural development ; Agricultural policy ; Income ; Rice ; Migrant labor / Sri Lanka
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 307.72 G744 DUN Record No: H027646)
14 Narayan, D.; Patel, R.; Schafft, K.; Rademacher, A.; Koch-Schulte, S. 2000. Voices of the poor: can anyone hear us? New York, NY, USA: Oxford University Press (OUP) for the World Bank. xi, 343p.
Poverty ; Assessment ; Institutions ; Food security ; Employment ; Social aspects ; Natural disasters ; Households ; Public health ; Diseases ; Gender ; Non-governmental organizations ; Case studies ; Women ; Female labor ; Migrant labor ; Common property ; Villages / Eastern Europe / Russian Federation / Indonesia / Africa / India
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 339.46 G000 NAR Record No: H028404)
15 Mukherji, A.; Verma, S.; Rath, P. 2003. Agrarian transformation among tribals: from migrants to farmer irrigators. IWMI-Tata Water Policy Research Highlight, 8/2003. 5p.
Farmers attitudes ; Tribal peoples ; Irrigated farming ; Cropping systems ; Rainfed farming ; Migrant labor ; Wage rates / India / Gujarat
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI 631.7.3 G635 MUK Record No: H031802)
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Research highlight based on a paper titled Impact of participatory irrigation management on tribals in South Gujarat
16 Harris, N. 2003. Migration of labour: Constructing transitional arrangements. Economic and Political Weekly, 38(42):4464-4470.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: P 6600 Record No: H033130)
17 Mukherji, A.; Verma, S.; Rath, P. 2002. Canal irrigation management by tribal communities: case study of AKRSP(I) supported PIM societies [including IWMI-TATA Water Policy Programme] in South Gujarat. Ahmedabad, India: Aga Khan Rural Support Programme (India). 42p. (AKRSP-1 Research Studies)
Irrigation canals ; Irrigation management ; Participatory management ; Farmer participation ; Irrigated farming ; Cropping systems ; Crop yield ; Wage rates ; Migrant labor ; Water distribution ; Water rates ; Economic impact ; Maintenance ; Non-governmental organizations / India / South Gujarat
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: IWMI 631.7.3 G635 MUK Record No: H033198)
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AB Provision of irrigation has been thought to be crucial in improving the livelihoods of millions of tribals in Central belt of India, who are locked in perpetual poverty. Green Revolution Technology, which has been at the heart of India’s agricultural development, has more or less bypassed the tribal population. For one, irrigation infrastructure is inadequate in the tribal regions and again when irrigation infrastructure is made available, the tribals do not seem to make adequate use of them. Creating demand for irrigation among the tribal farmers seems to be most important challenge. It is in this backdrop that we undertook our case study in a tribal dominated block of Gujarat. Unlike the other tribal dominated areas Jharkhand and Chattisgarh), the tribals in our study area were third generation farmers and therefore they faced no cognitive barriers in adopting irrigated agriculture. They are also as skilled a farmer as any other, which is reflected by the fact that there are no discernable yield differences between a tribal and a non-tribal farmer. We studied four canal irrigation schemes, which have been all turned over to the farmers at the behest of AKRSP (I)’s intervention. All these four schemes are tribal dominated, some of them are completely so, others have a handful of non-tribal population. The schemes we studied were Pingot RBMC, Baldeva LBMC, Pingot LBMC and Issar Minor Irrigation scheme. Our results confirm that irrigated agriculture has brought about tremendous benefits to a tribal farmer in the form of yield increases, higher cropping intensity, lower out migration and higher wage rates within the village. The trajectory of change for a typical tribal farming has been from cultivating local paddy in Kharif and migrating in Rabi and summer to cultivating hybrid paddy in kharif and irrigated groundnut or moong in summer. Irrigated agriculture has become central to their livelihoods and this in part explains why Participatory Irrigation Management (PIM) has been more or less successful here. However, the non-tribal farmers have benefited more from PIM than tribal farmers, because they shifted to very lucrative sugarcane farming. The non-tribals (Patels) have also played a significant role in these irrigation co-operatives in that they have provided the much needed “demonstration effect” of profitability of irrigated agriculture. AKRSP (I)’s role as facilitator of PIM in Pingot RBMC and Baldeva LBMC has been acclaimed nationally. But we propose that the success of these two schemes lies in the creation of Pingot LBMC society, where tribal farmers came forward on their own and formed irrigation society to take over management of the canal system. The very fact that an all-tribal farmer group could successfully replicate PIM experiment in Gujarat that was started with Pingot RBMC and Baldeva LBMC is a proof enough for the success of PIM as a whole. We also propose that in the long term, the sustainability of PIM will depend on the overall profitability of irrigated agriculture and therefore efforts should be made to make farming a more profitable venture for the tribal farmers. Encouraging them to shift to highly lucrative crops such as sugarcane and orchard crops could perhaps make irrigated agriculture more profitable in future.
18 Liu, S.; Cai, J.; Yang, Z. 2003. Migrants’ access to land in Periurban Beijing. Urban Agriculture Magazine, 11:6-8.
Land ownership ; Farming ; Land use ; Households ; Social aspects ; Migrant labor ; Villages / China / Beijing
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: P 6724 Record No: H033975)
19 Idelson, P. I. 2003. The problem of access to land in Divo. Urban Agriculture Magazine, 11:18-20.
Land use ; Urbanization ; Policy ; Conflict ; Social aspects ; Migrant labor ; Farmers ; Women / Ivory Coast / Divo
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: P 6724 Record No: H033979)
20 Buechler, S.; Devi Mekala, G. 2003. The impact of water conservation and reuse on the household economy. Paper presented at the 8th International Conference on Water Conservation and Reuse of Wastewater, Indian Water Works Association, Mumbai, India, 13-14 September 2003. 34p.
Water conservation ; Water reuse ; Water quality ; Vegetables ; Labor ; Women ; Employment ; Agricultural manpower ; Fodder ; Farmers ; Irrigated farming ; Villages ; Livestock ; Fisheries ; Rain-fed farming ; Migrant labor / India / Hyderabad / Andhra Pradesh / Musi River / Secunderabad / Pirzadiguda / Korremula / Edulabad / Bandaravirala / Pillaipalli
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI 631.7.5 G635 BUE Record No: H034271)
The urban, peri-urban and rural areas near Hyderabad city, located in Andhra Pradesh, south India are semi-arid and drought prone. In order to be able to engage in agricultural production, many farmers utilize wastewater for irrigation. Within these irrigated areas, many farmers pump groundwater for agricultural and domestic use. Five locations in the peri-urban and rural areas near Hyderabad were chosen to get a comprehensive view of groundwater use in wastewaterirrigated areas. This paper focuses on three aspects of the study: groundwater quality, farmer innovations that mitigate the harmful effects of wastewater and groundwater quality and the value of this agricultural production for the household economy. Wastewater use (or water reuse) for irrigation conserves fresh water resources in this and in many other areas of the world. In the area under study, wastewater use also causes groundwater recharge. However, 96% of domestic wastewater in Hyderabad receives little or no treatment and untreated industrial effluent is released with the wastewater into the wastewater-fed river, then into irrigation canals and storage tanks or ponds. Groundwater has become saline in all the wastewater-irrigated areas due to underground seepage, rendering it unsuitable for drinking and cooking purposes. With the rapid urban population growth and concurrent inter-basin transfers of water to meet urban water demand, wastewater volumes are increasing allowing more hectares of land to be brought under cultivation. With the expansion of wastewater-irrigated areas, groundwater levels in wastewater-irrigated areas have risen. As a result, additional land has also been brought under cultivation that is irrigated with groundwater. This generates income for more people and ensures their food security. However, groundwater pollution is also increasing. Many farming households have adapted their domestic and agricultural water use to the realities of deteriorating water quality yet greater water availability through the use of several innovative strategies.
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