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1 Sanderatne, N.; de Alwis, S. 2014. National and household food security in Sri Lanka. Colombo, Sri Lanka: Centre for Poverty Analysis (CEPA). 112p. (CEPA Study Series 8 - 2014)
Household income ; Household expenditure ; Food security ; Right to food ; Food production ; Food policies ; Development projects ; Political aspects ; Economic aspects ; Rice ; Subsidies ; Imports ; Nutrition ; Malnutrition / Sri Lanka
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 338.19 G744 SAN Record No: H046772)
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2 Swaminathan, M. S. 2015. Combating hunger and achieving food security. New Delhi, India: Cambridge University Press. 167p.
Food security ; Nutrition ; Right to food ; Food wastes ; Hunger ; Famine ; Agricultural development ; Alternative agriculture ; Heritability ; Ecology ; Biodiversity conservation ; Biofuels ; Agricultural production ; Crop yield ; Rice ; Wheat ; Agricultural research ; Livestock production ; Aquaculture ; Monsoon climate ; Sustainability ; Agrarian reform ; Role of women ; Social security ; Child care ; Youth ; Financial institutions ; Inflation / India / Bengal
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 363.80954 G635 SWA Record No: H047806)
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3 Rao, N. (Ed.) 2015. M. S. Swaminathan in conversation with Nitya Rao: from reflections on my life to the ethics and politics of science. New Delhi, India: Academic Foundation. 227p.
Agricultural research ; Green revolution ; Gender ; Women's participation ; Farmers ; Social aspects ; Mobilization ; Cultural factors ; Diversity ; Human rights ; Hunger ; Right to food ; Agricultural planning ; Strategies ; Seeds ; Sciences ; Technology ; Economic aspects ; Governmental interrelations ; Political aspects ; Public policy ; Ethics ; Standards ; Demography ; Resource management ; Governance ; Agrarian structure ; Education ; Motivation ; Information exchange ; Geneticists ; Biographies ; Interviews / India
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 576.5092 G635 RAO Record No: H047823)
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4 UN Women. 2014. World survey on the role of women in development 2014: gender equality and sustainable development. New York, NY, USA: UN Women. 129p.
Women in development ; Gender equality ; Sustainable development ; Surveys ; Food security ; Food insecurity ; Right to food ; Food systems ; Policy making ; Social policies ; Economic policies ; Water availability ; Population dynamics ; Demographic transition ; Family planning ; Sanitation ; Hunger ; Malnutrition ; Financing ; Investment ; Corporate culture ; Constraints ; Electricity
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H049179)
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5 Sultana, F.; Loftus, A. (Eds.) 2020. Water politics: governance, justice and the right to water. Oxon, UK: Routledge - Earthscan. 209p. (Earthscan Water Text)
Water resources ; Political aspects ; Human rights ; Right to water ; Right to food ; Water policy ; Water security ; Resilience ; Water allocation ; Freshwater ; Water governance ; Bottled water ; Water use ; Public water ; Informal settlements ; Social classes ; Mobilization ; Ethics ; Sanitation ; Latrines / Europe / USA / Mexico / Bolivia / Greece / South Africa / Thessaloniki / Michigan / Detroit / Flint / Durban
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 333.91 G000 SUL Record No: H049396)
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6 Mehta, L.; Oweis, T.; Ringler, C.; Schreiner, B.; Varghese, S. 2020. Water for food security, nutrition and social justice. Abingdon, Oxon, UK: Routledge. 201p. [doi: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351747622]
Water management ; Food security ; Water governance ; Social rights ; Human rights ; Right to water ; Right to food ; Nutrition ; Irrigated farming ; Hygiene ; Water productivity ; Land productivity ; Water distribution systems ; Drinking water ; Hydropower ; Water scarcity ; Water security ; Water allocation ; Water quality ; Agricultural production ; Livelihoods ; Evapotranspiration ; Infrastructure ; Political aspects ; Irrigation water ; Water supply ; Water availability ; Households ; Food production ; Communities ; Livestock ; Rainfed farming ; Gender ; Women ; Sustainable development ; Socioeconomic aspects ; Water use ; Agricultural water use ; Water policies ; Irrigation systems ; Rainwater harvesting ; Soil water ; Decision making ; Agroecology ; Water footprint ; Agreements / Jordan / Syrian Arab Republic / South Africa / China / India / Middle East / Maharashtra
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy SF Record No: H050696)
7 van Koppen, Barbara. 2022. Living customary water tenure in rights-based water management in Sub-Saharan Africa. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). 41p. (IWMI Research Report 183) [doi: https://doi.org/10.5337/2022.214]
Water tenure ; Customary tenure ; Water rights ; Water management ; Water law ; Customary law ; Water resources ; Water sharing ; Infrastructure ; Water supply ; Multiple use water services ; Rural communities ; Water allocation ; Sustainable Development Goals ; water, sanitation and hygiene ; Norms ; Policies ; Legislation ; Water governance ; Water quality ; Water distribution ; Water permits ; Conflicts ; Costs ; Gender ; Women ; Right to water ; Right to food ; Households ; Living standards ; Drinking water ; Domestic water ; Farmer-led irrigation ; Pastoralists ; Livestock ; Land ; Water security ; Nexus approaches / Africa South of Sahara
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI Record No: H051372)
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Living customary water tenure is the most accepted socio-legal system among the large majority of rural people in sub-Saharan Africa. Based on literature, this report seeks to develop a grounded understanding of the ways in which rural people meet their domestic and productive water needs on homesteads, distant fields or other sites of use, largely outside the ambits of the state. Taking the rural farming or pastoralist community as the unit of analysis, three components are distinguished. The first component deals with the fundamental perceptions of the links between humankind and naturally available water resources as a commons to be shared by all, partially linked to communities’ collective land rights. The second component deals with the sharing of these finite and contested naturally available water resources, especially during dry seasons and droughts. Customary arrangements shape both the ‘sharing in’ of water resources within communities and the ‘sharing out’ with other customary communities or powerful third parties. Since colonial times, communities have been vulnerable to those third parties grabbing water resources and overriding customary uses and governance. The third component deals with infrastructure to store and convey water resources. Since time immemorial, communities have invested in infrastructure for self supply, ranging from micro-scale soil moisture retention techniques to large-scale collective deep wells. As increasingly recognized in both the water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) and irrigation sectors, this component of self supply is rapidly expanding. In all three components, local diversity is high, with gender, class and other social hierarchies intertwining with social safety nets, neighborliness and moral economies.
The study derives two sets of implications for state and non-state policies, laws and interventions. First, state legislation about the sharing of water resources should recognize and protect living customary water tenure, especially through due process in ‘sharing out’ water with powerful third parties. Remarkably, water law, which is dominated by permit systems in sub-Saharan Africa, lags behind other legislation in recognizing customary water tenure (see IWMI Research Report 182). Second, by taking communities’ self supply for multiple uses as a starting point for further water infrastructure development, the WASH, irrigation and other sectors can follow the priorities of communities, including the most vulnerable; identify cost-effective multi-purpose infrastructure; develop local skills; and, hence, contribute more sustainably to achieving more United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), in particular SDGs 1, 2, 3, 5, 6 and 13. Further historical and interdisciplinary research to achieve these benefits is recommended.
The study derives two sets of implications for state and non-state policies, laws and interventions. First, state legislation about the sharing of water resources should recognize and protect living customary water tenure, especially through due process in ‘sharing out’ water with powerful third parties. Remarkably, water law, which is dominated by permit systems in sub-Saharan Africa, lags behind other legislation in recognizing customary water tenure (see IWMI Research Report 182). Second, by taking communities’ self supply for multiple uses as a starting point for further water infrastructure development, the WASH, irrigation and other sectors can follow the priorities of communities, including the most vulnerable; identify cost-effective multi-purpose infrastructure; develop local skills; and, hence, contribute more sustainably to achieving more United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), in particular SDGs 1, 2, 3, 5, 6 and 13. Further historical and interdisciplinary research to achieve these benefits is recommended.
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