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1 Shah, Tushaar; Singh, O. P. 2003. Can irrigation eradicate rural poverty in Gujarat? IWMI-Tata Water Policy Research Highlight, 10/2003. 7p.
Irrigation canals ; Groundwater irrigation ; Rural poverty ; Rural development ; Urbanization ; Industrialization / India / Gujarat
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI 631.7.3 G635 SHA Record No: H031804)
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Research highlight based on a paper titled ôIrrigation development and rural poverty in Gujarat, India: A disaggregated analysisö
2 Asian Development Bank (ADB). 2004. Water for the poor: partnerships for action: how to bring water to the rural poor. Manila, Philippines: Asian Development Bank (ADB). 14p. (ADB Water for All Series 6)
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 362.5 G000 ADB Record No: H038371)
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Addresses the need to raise the quality of investments in poverty reduction projects and programs that aim to improve the water security of the rural poor. Partnerships can help improve project quality and rural water investments.
3 Dayal, E. 1989. Rural poverty in India: a regional analysis. Journal of Rural Studies, 5(1):87-98.
Rural poverty ; Analysis ; Indicators ; Landlessness ; Farmers ; Models ; Regression analysis ; Irrigation effects ; Agricultural society / India
(Location: IWMI HQ Record No: H041837)
4 Polak, P.; Fry, S. 2009. Water and the twin challenge of feeding 3 billion new people and ending rural poverty. In Llamas, M. R.; Martinez-Cortina, L.; Mukherji, Aditi. (Eds.). Water ethics: Marcelino Botin Water Forum 2007. Leiden, Netherlands: CRC Press. pp.171-184.
Rural poverty ; Food security ; Irrigation water ; Deep tube wells ; Pumps ; Small farms ; Water storage
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 333.91 G000 LLA Record No: H042079)
5 Shah, Tushaar. 2009. Groundwater irrigation and livelihoods in the Ganga Basin: analysis of minor irrigation policy in north Bengal, India. International Journal of River Basin Management, 7(2):125-133.
Groundwater irrigation ; Irrigation programs ; River basins ; Water lifting ; Policy ; Water table ; Tube wells ; Pumps ; Loans ; Farmers ; Rural poverty / India / North Bengal / Ganges Basin / North Bengal Terai Development Project
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H042203)
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6 African Development Bank (AfDB); FAO; IFAD; International Water Management Institute (IWMI); World Bank. 2007. Investment in agricultural water for poverty reduction and economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa: synthesis report. Abidjan, Ivory Coast: African Development Bank (AfDB); Rome, Italy: FAO; Rome, Italy: IFAD; Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI); Washington, DC, USA: World Bank: 71p.
Irrigated farming ; International waters ; Water resource management ; Decentralization ; Irrigation management ; Public investment ; Private investment ; Horticulture ; Irrigation programs ; Rainfed farming ; Dry farming ; Rural poverty ; Women / Africa South of Sahara / West Africa / Mali / Niger / Kenya / Tanzania / Nigeria / Zambia / Zimbabwe / Madagascar / Senegal / Ivory Coast / Burkina Faso
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H042216)
http://siteresources.worldbank.org/RPDLPROGRAM/Resources/459596-1170984095733/synthesisreport.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H042216.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H042216.pdf
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This report summarizes the results of a Collaborative Programme of a group of international development agencies – AfDB, FAO, IFAD, IWMI and the World Bank – to review the experience of agricultural water investment in sub-Saharan Africa to date and to identify the conditions for successful investment in sustainable, cost-effective agricultural water development.
7 Mukherji, Aditi; Villholth, K. G.; Sharma, Bharat R.; Wang, J. (Eds.) 2009. Groundwater governance in the Indo-Gangetic and Yellow River basins: realities and challenges. London, UK: CRC Press. 325p. (IAH Selected Papers on Hydrogeology 15)
Hydrogeology ; River basins ; Groundwater management ; Groundwater irrigation ; Rural poverty ; Water governance ; Income ; Economic aspects ; Case studies ; Shallow tube wells ; Water availability ; Crop yield ; Energy resources ; Food security ; Water market ; Water use ; Tube well irrigation ; Pumps ; Fuels / South Asia / China / India / Pakistan / Bangladesh / Nepal / Indo-Gangetic Basin / Yellow River Basin / Punjab / Bihar / West Bengal / Andhra Pradesh / North China Plain
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI 631.7.6.3 G570 MUK Record No: H042219)
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8 Villholth, K. G.; Mukherji, Aditi; Sharma, Bharat R.; Wang, J. 2009. The role of groundwater in agriculture, livelihoods and rural poverty alleviation in the Indo-Gangetic and Yellow River basins: a review. In Mukherji, Aditi; Villholth, K. G.; Sharma, Bharat R.; Wang, J. (Eds.) Groundwater governance in the Indo-Gangetic and Yellow River basins: realities and challenges. London, UK: CRC Press. pp.3-28. (IAH Selected Papers on Hydrogeology 15)
Groundwater irrigation ; Groundwater development ; Water market ; Wells ; Pumps ; Energy consumption ; Rural poverty ; River basins / South Asia / China / India / Pakistan / Bangladesh / Nepal / Indo-Gangetic Basin / Yellow River Basin / Punjab / Bihar / Bengal
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI 631.7.6.3 G570 MUK Record No: H042220)
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9 Johnston, Robyn M.; Hoanh, Chu Thai; Lacombe, Guillaume; Noble, Andrew D.; Smakhtin, Vladimir; Suhardiman, Diana; Kam, Suan Pheng; Choo, P. S. 2009. Scoping study on natural resources and climate change in Southeast Asia with a focus on agriculture. Final report. Vientiane, Laos: International Water Management Institute (IWMI) South East Asia Office, for Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) 107p. [doi: https://doi.org/10.3910/2010.201]
Climate change ; Natural resources ; Environmental effects ; Agroecology ; Agricultural production ; Crops ; Cropping systems ; Farming systems ; Livestock ; Fisheries ; Food security ; Water management ; Economic aspects ; Rural poverty ; Policy ; Nutrient management / South East Asia / Cambodia / Laos / Thailand / Vietnam / Myanmar / China / Greater Mekong Subregion / Tonle Sap / Yunnan
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H042414)
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10 Shah, Tushaar. 2009. Money for nothing. Times of India, 5 November 2009:12.
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H042457)
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11 2009. Water works: a project in Africa and South Asia identifies promising agricultural water management solutions to unlock the potential of smallholder farming. CGIAR News, September 2009:33.
Irrigation management ; Development projects ; Food security ; Water security ; Rural poverty / Africa / South Asia / Africa / India
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H042459)
http://www.cgiar.org/enews/september2009/story_12.html
http://www.cgiar.org/pdf/enews_september2009.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H042459.mht
http://www.cgiar.org/pdf/enews_september2009.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H042459.mht
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12 Bacha, D.; Namara, Regassa E.; Bogale, Ayalneh; Tesfaye, A. 2011. Impact of small scale irrigation on household poverty: empirical evidence from the Ambo district in Ethiopia. Irrigation and Drainage, 60(1):1-10. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ird.550]
Irrigation systems ; Rural poverty ; Households ; Expenditure ; Econometrics ; Farmer-led irrigation ; Analysis / Ethiopia / Ambo district
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: PER Record No: H042651)
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A study was conducted in the Ambo district of western Ethiopia in 2006 to understand the poverty reduction impacts of small-scale irrigation development, using the Indris irrigation system as a case study. The study was based on a survey of representative farm households with and without access to irrigation. The total sample size for the study was 222 (107 households with access to irrigation and 115 without). Data were analysed using descriptive statistics, the Foster, Greer and Thobeck poverty indices, and Heckman’s selectivity model. Results indicate that the incidence, depth, and severity of poverty are significantly lower among those farm households with access to irrigation. In addition to irrigation, other variables such as farm size, livestock holding size, land productivity, and family size significantly influence the level of household consumption expenditure. However, the proportion of poor people in the overall sample, notwithstanding access to irrigation, is alarmingly high, indicating the deeprooted and critical situation of poverty in rural Ethiopia.
13 Namara, Regassa E.; Hanjra, M. A.; Castillo, G. E.; Ravnborg, H. M.; Smith, L.; van Koppen, Barbara. 2010. Agricultural water management and poverty linkages. Agricultural Water Management, 97(4):520–527. Special issue with contributions by IWMI authors. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agwat.2009.05.007]
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H042743)
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Water is critically important to the livelihoods of more than 1 billion people living on less than $1 a day, particularly for the 850 million rural poor primarily engaged in agriculture. In many developing countries, water is a major factor constraining agricultural output, and income of the world’s rural poor. Improved agricultural water management can contribute to poverty reduction through several pathways. First, access to reliable water improves production and productivity, enhances employment opportunities and stabilizes income and consumption. Secondly, it encourages the utilization of other yield-enhancing inputs and allows diversification into high-value products, enhances nonfarm outputs and employment, and fulfills multiple needs of households. Third, it may contribute either negatively or positively to nutritional status, health, societal equity and environment. The net impact of agricultural water management interventions on poverty may depend individually and/or synergistically on the working of these pathways. Improved access to water is essential, but not sufficient for sustained poverty reduction. Investments are needed in agricultural science and technology, policies and institutions, economic reform, addressing global agricultural trade inequities, etc. But how best to match the agricultural water management technologies, institutions and policies to the needs of the heterogeneous poor living in diverse agro-ecological settings remains unclear. This article provides a menu of promising pathways through which agricultural water management can contribute to sustained poverty reduction.
14 Feldman, S.; Nathan, D.; Raina, R.; Yang, H. 2009. International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development (IAASTD): Agriculture at a Crossroads, East and South Asia and the Pacific (ESAP) summary for decision makers. Washington, DC, USA: Island Press. 18p.
Decision making ; Environmental sustainability ; Rural poverty ; Agricultural society ; Labor ; Agricultural production / Asia / East Asia / South Asia / Pacific
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 338.95 G570 FEL Record No: H042966)
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15 Faures, J. M.; Santini, G. (Eds.) 2008. Water and the rural poor: interventions for improving livelihoods in Sub-Saharan Africa. Rome, Italy: FAO. 93p.
Rural poverty ; Mapping ; Water use ; Multiple use ; Irrigated farming ; Rural areas ; Water harvesting
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 631.7.3 G000 FAU Record No: H042976)
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16 Wegerich, Kai; Warner, J. (Eds.) 2010. The politics of water: a survey. London, UK: Routledge. 393p.
International waters ; Aquifers ; River basins ; Treaties ; International agreements ; Political aspects ; Legal aspects ; Water governance ; Water rights ; Gender ; Rural poverty ; Irrigation systems ; Case studies
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 333.91 G000 WEG Record No: H043018)
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17 Wegerich, Kai. 2010. Rural poverty reduction: what’s irrigation got to do with it? In Wegerich, Kai; Warner, J. (Eds.). The politics of water: a survey. London, UK: Routledge. pp.201-213.
Irrigation systems ; Privatization ; Water user associations ; Rural poverty ; Groundwater irrigation
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy SF Record No: H043028)
18 Cohen, A. 2010. The multidimensional poverty assessment tool. Rome, Italy: IFAD. 207p.
Rural poverty ; Assessment ; Surveys ; Indicators ; Statistical methods ; Households ; Villages / India / China
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 362.5 G000 COH Record No: H043042)
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19 Cohen, A. 2010. The multidimensional poverty assessment tool. Rome, Italy: IFAD. 207p.
Rural poverty ; Assessment ; Surveys ; Indicators ; Statistical methods ; Households ; Villages / India / China
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 362.5 G000 COH c2 Record No: H043043)
20 Cohen, A. 2009. The multidimensional poverty assessment tool: user's guide. Rome, Italy: IFAD. 100p.
Guidelines ; Training ; Rural poverty ; Assessment ; Surveys ; Indicators ; Statistical methods ; Households ; Villages
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 362.5 G000 COH Record No: H043044)
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