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1 Chambers, R. 1987. Food and water as if poor people mattered: A professional revolution. In W. R. Jorden (Ed.), Water and water policy in world food supplies: Proceedings of the conference, 26-30 May 1985. Texas A & M University College Station, TX. USA: Texas A & M University Press. pp.15-21.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: P 587 Record No: H01708)
Hunger is an extreme sign of deprivation. Failures to eliminate hunger, and past errors of belief, are reason for humility and reappraisal. Hunger in the modern world is a problem not of production but of poverty, not of the total food available but of who produces it and who can command it. Normal professionalism is also part of the problem. To alleviate deprivation and hunger, professionals need to learn from and with those who are last - the poor - and to put their priorities first, including livelihoods and personal food security. Irrigation's benefits to the land-poor - the landless and those with little land - are easily underestimated. They can include higher production, employment on more days, higher daily wages, less need to migrate, and reduced risks. From canal irrigation, benefits to the land- poor can be realized through redistribution of canal water, sliding scales of water entitlements, increases in cropping intensities, more predictability and less hassle in water supply, and equitable land distribution. From groundwater, benefits to the land-poor can be sought with pumps of + to 3 HP, rights and access to water, public policy with power tariffs, spacing wells and tubewells, and trees as poor people's solar pumps. Last-first approaches can also be applied to drinking water, water for pastoralism, common-property land, watershed development, energy, and agricultural research. Normal professionalism points away from these opportunities; to realize them and enable the poor to overcome hunger and deprivation demands a new professionalism which puts the last first.
2 Sahan, D. E. 1987. Changes in the living standards of the poor in Sri Lanka during a period of macroeconomic restructuring. World Development, 15(6):809-830.
Economic situation ; Governmental interrelations ; Economic policy ; Employment ; Aid ; Statistics ; Living standards ; Poverty / Sri Lanka
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: PER Record No: H02894)
3 Silva, A. W. 1996. Socio economic effects of the implementation of the Nilwala Project: Some adverse effects on rural society. OUR Engineering technology, 2(1):115-120.
Flood control ; River basin development ; Agricultural economics ; Rural development ; Rural economy ; Cost benefit analysis ; Social impact ; Living standards / Sri Lanka / Nilwala River
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: P 4174 Record No: H017913)
4 Hameed, N. D. A.; Amerasinghe, N.; Panditharatna, B. L.; Gunasekera, G. D. A.; Selvadurai, J.; Selvanayaham, S. 1977. Rice revolution in Sri Lanka. Geneva, Switzerland: United Nations Research Institute for Social Development. x, 282p. (UNRISD report no.76.7)
Rice ; Crop production ; Agricultural economics ; Agricultural policy ; Rural economy ; Land tenure ; Farm income ; Villages ; Living standards ; Institutions ; Cooperatives ; Settlement ; Agricultural credit ; Labor ; Cropping systems ; Weed control / Sri Lanka / Minipe / Ussapitiya / Polonnoruwa / Palamunai
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 633.18 G744 HAM Record No: H018190)
5 Zwarteveen, M.; Neupane, N. 1996. Free-riders or victims: women's nonparticipation in irrigation management in Nepal's Chhattis Mauja Irrigation Scheme. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Irrigation Management Institute (IIMI). v, 21p. (IWMI Research Report 007 / IIMI Research Report 007) [doi: https://doi.org/10.3910/2009.016]
Irrigation management ; Farmer-managed irrigation systems ; Irrigation programs ; Privatization ; Water user associations ; Irrigated farming ; Irrigation canals ; Water delivery ; Water allocation ; Water distribution ; Maintenance ; Gender ; Women in development ; Farmers ; Female labor ; Agricultural manpower ; Households ; Family labor ; Living standards ; Social aspects ; Agricultural production ; Villages ; Social organization ; Farmer-led irrigation ; Performance evaluation / Nepal / Chhattis Mauja Irrigation Scheme
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: IIMI 631.7088042 G726 ZWA Record No: H019765)
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Examines multiple factors in women's involvement/non-involvement in irrigation in the Chhattis Mauja irrigation scheme in Nepal. Includes an empirical analysis of the livelihood strategies of farm households, documentation of the level and nature of participation of women and men in the water users' organizations, analysis of women's access to irrigation services, and an examination of the need and desirability of increasing the participation of woman in the scheme organization.
6 Interdisciplinary Institute of Emerging Technology. 1991. Action plan for improvement in quality of life of villagers in India: A concept. Unpublished report. New Delhi, India: Interdisciplinary Institute of Emerging Technology. 80p.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: P 4562 Record No: H021359)
7 ESCAP. 1997. Population and environment dynamics, poverty and quality of life in countries of the ESCAP Region. New York, NY, USA: UN. ix, 195p. (Asian population studies series no.147)
Population growth ; Environmental effects ; Poverty ; Living standards ; Urbanization ; Deforestation ; Erosion ; Food security ; Woman's status ; Water pollution ; Pollution control / Asia / Bangladesh / Indonesia / Nepal / Philippines / Pacific Islands
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 304.6 G570 ESC Record No: H025503)
8 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)
9 ADB. 2000. Rural Asia: Beyond the green revolution. Manila, Philippines: ADB. vii, 187p.
Rural development ; Rural economy ; Agricultural development ; Land management ; Water scarcity ; Water management ; River basins ; Irrigation management ; Water use ; Water rights ; Pricing ; Water market ; Groundwater management ; Policy ; Food security ; Sustainable agriculture ; Environmental policy ; Living standards ; Poverty ; Gender / Asia
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 338.9 G570 ADB Record No: H026184)
10 Bissell, R. E.; Singh, S.; Warth, H. 2001. Resettlement and rehabilitation in practice: An example from the Maheshwar Project in India. Development and Cooperation, 2:19-22.
Dams ; Settlement ; Rehabilitation ; Social aspects ; Living standards ; Villages / India / Narmada River / Madhya Pradesh / Maheshwar Project
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: P 5707 Record No: H027838)
11 Satpathy, M. K. 2002. Irrigation for livelihoods improvement: small holder tribal irrigation in Jharkhand. IWMI-TATA Water Policy Research Program Annual Partners' Meet, 2002. Vallabh Vidyanagar, Gujarat, India: IWMI-TATA Water Policy Research Program. 41p.
Communal irrigation systems ; Small scale systems ; Irrigated farming ; Rain-fed farming ; Poverty ; Living standards ; Rain ; Water potential ; Crop production ; Income ; Villages ; Farmers ; Infrastructure ; Constraints ; Social aspects / India / Jharkhand
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI 631.7.3 G635 SAT Record No: H029641)
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12 Yinghua, Z. 2002. Report on ChinaÆs development and investment in land and water. In FAO. RAP. Investment in land and water û Proceedings of the Regional Consultation, Bangkok, Thailand, 3-5 October 2001. Bangkok, Thailand: FAO. RAP. pp.187-207.
Water resources development ; Land development ; Water management ; Land management ; Farmers ; Living standards ; Agricultural development ; Irrigated farming ; Investment ; Water supply ; Erosion ; Soil fertility ; Development plans / China
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 631.7.4 G570 FAO Record No: H030008)
13 Bloom, D. E.; Craig, P. H.; Malaney, P. N. 2001. The quality of life in rural Asia. Quarry Bay, Hong Kong: Oxford University Press (OUP), China Ltd. for ADB. xv, 310p. (A study of Rural Asia Volume 4)
Living conditions ; Living standards ; Rural Sociology ; Rural economy ; Labor ; Economic aspects ; Institutions ; Policy ; Flood water ; Natural disasters ; Gender ; Health ; Poverty ; Investment policy ; Energy consumption ; Land reform ; Population growth ; Diseases ; Public sector ; Private sector ; Non-governmental organizations ; Decentralization / Asia / Bangladesh / Indonesia
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 338.9 G570 BLO Record No: H030590)
14 Vyas, V. S. 2002. Our agrarian future: A medium-term perspective on Asian agriculture. Economic and Political Weekly, 37(50):5017-5032.
Sustainable agriculture ; Water resources ; Land resources ; Irrigation ; Farmers ; Agricultural production ; Agricultural policy ; Agricultural development ; Income ; Living standards ; Rural economy / Asia
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: P 6140 Record No: H031001)
15 Marzano, M. 2002. Rural livelihoods in Sri Lanka: An indication of poverty? Journal of International Development, 14:817-828.
Living standards ; Poverty ; Villages ; Case studies ; Households ; Water supply ; Health ; Social aspects ; Organizations / Sri Lanka / Moneragala District / Mediriya / Therrapahuwa / Walamatiara
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: P 6187 Record No: H031211)
16 Sri Lanka. Department of Census and Statistics. 2003. Sectoral and provincial poverty lines for Sri Lanka. Colombo, Sri Lanka: The Department. 23p.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 339.46 G744 SRI Record No: H031949)
17 Christiaensen, L.; Demery, L.; Paternostro, S. 2003. Macro and micro perspectives of growth and poverty in Africa. The World Bank Economic Review, 17(3):317-347.
Economic growth ; Economic policy ; Poverty ; Households ; Living standards ; Income distribution / Africa / Ethiopia / Ghana / Madagascar / Mauritania / Nageria / Uganda / Zambia / Zimbabwe
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: P 6829 Record No: H034540)
18 Xu, Z. F.; Tian, J. C. 2003. Socio-economic assessment in Ningxia irrigated agriculture. In Pereira, L. S.; Cai, L. G.; Musy, A.; Minhas, P. S. (Eds.), Water savings in the Yellow River Basin: Issues and decision support tools in irrigation. Beijing, China: China Agriculture Press. pp.165-177.
Irrigated farming ; Cereals ; Irrigation scheduling ; Households ; Farm income ; Living standards ; Social aspects ; Economic aspects ; Assessment ; Agricultural policy / China / Yellow River Basin
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 631.7 G592 PER Record No: H040067)
19 Simler, K. R.; Mukherjee, S.; Dava, G. L.; Datt, G. 2004. Rebuilding after war: Micro-level determinants of poverty reduction in Mozambique. Washington, DC, USA: IFPRI. xii, 96p. (IFPRI Research Report 132)
Poverty ; Simulations ; Households ; Living standards ; Sensitivity analysis ; Economic growth ; Policy / Mozambique
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 339.46 G172 SIM Record No: H035084)
20 Pyatt, G.; Thorbecke, E. 1976. Planning techniques for a better future: A summary of a research project on planning for growth, redistribution and employment. Geneva, Switzerland: ILO. 91p.
Employment ; Planning ; Policy ; Households ; Living standards ; Investment ; Income distribution / Sri Lanka
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: P 7184 Record No: H036377)
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