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Farmer participation in irrigation – 20 years of experience and lessons for the future
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In this article, the authors examine trends in the understanding and policies toward farmer participation in irrigation management over the past 20 years, with special attention toexperiences with induced participation and management transfer programs in the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Senegal, Columbia Basin USA, and Mexico.Abstract:
This article examines trends in the understandingof and policies toward farmer participation in irrigationmanagement over the past 20 years, with special attention toexperiences with induced participation and management transferprograms in the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Senegal,Columbia Basin USA, and Mexico. Key lessons relate to the valueof social organizers as catalysts; the role of the irrigationagency as partner; and the enabling conditions for participation.As levels of income and infrastructure rise, we can expect moreformal organizations that enable farmers to deal with bankaccounts, service contracts, water rights, water markets, andadvanced technology in irrigation systems. The impact ofparticipation on irrigation performance needs to be evaluated notjust in terms of reductions in government costs, but by whetherimprovement in physical structures and farmers‘ control overwater are great enough to offset the farmers‘ costs ofparticipating.read more
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Research, part of a Special Feature on New Methods for Adaptive Water Management Adaptive Water Governance: Assessing the Institutional Prescriptions of Adaptive (Co-)Management from a Governance Perspective and Defining a Research Agenda
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors assess the institutional prescriptions of adaptive co-management based on a literature review of the (water) governance literature and highlight the complexities associated with participation and collaboration, the difficulty of experimenting in a real-world setting, and the politicized nature of discussion on governance at the bioregional scale.
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Adaptive water governance: assessing the institutional prescriptions of adaptive (co-)management from a governance perspective and defining a research agenda.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors assess the institutional prescriptions of adaptive co-management based on a literature review of the (water) governance literature and highlight the complexities associated with participation and collaboration, the difficulty of experimenting in a real-world setting, and the politicized nature of discussion on governance at the bioregional scale.
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Social Learning in European River-Basin Management: Barriers and Fostering Mechanisms from 10 River Basins
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present and analyze 10 case studies of participatory river-basin management that were conducted as part of the European HarmoniCOP project, which emphasizes the importance of collaboration, organization, and learning.
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Pricing irrigation water: a review of theory and practice
TL;DR: A survey of current and past views on allocating irrigation water with a focus on efficiency, equity, water institutions, and the political economy of water allocation can be found in this article.
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Pricing Irrigation Water: A Literature Survey
TL;DR: A survey of the resource economics literature on irrigation services and pricing will be useful for developing comprehensive guidelines for water policy practitioners as discussed by the authors, where the authors synthesize accumulated knowledge about the implementation and performance of various water pricing methods used over the past two decades: volumetric pricing, output and input pricing, per area pricing, tiered pricing, two-part tariffs, and water markets.
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Learning from Gal Oya: Possibilities for Participatory Development and Post-Newtonian Social Science
TL;DR: Uphoff as discussed by the authors describes the drama of a remarkably successful experiment that introduced farmer organization for self-managed development in the largest and most run-down conflict-ridden irrigation system in Sri Lanka and now updates the story to record the author's picture of Gal Oya in 1996.
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Irrigation and Agricultural Development in Asia : Perspectives from the Social Sciences
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present perspectives from the social sciences of irrigation and agricultural development in Asia: perspectives from social sciences, Irrigation and agriculture development in South-east Asia.