Proposed Business Plan for Pilot Farmer Organizations
Proposed Business Plan for Pilot Farmer Organizations

Author: Saeed Ur Rehman

Publisher: IWMI

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 87

ISBN-13: 929090464X

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This document provides guidelines in general to the Farmer Organization (FOs) on how to get economic viability and how to carry out effective monitoring through an accountability mechanism. The proposed business plan is an important document that could be helpful in developing the future action plan after irrigation management transfer takes place. The potential for implementing an effective action plan would depend on an operation plan indeed.

Managing Irrigation Together
Managing Irrigation Together

Author: Clarence Maloney

Publisher: SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited

Published: 1994-10-31

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13:

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Explores ways in which even small farmers can organize to manage irrigation. Covers issues such as methods of field distribution, environmental aspects, and measurement of water, costs, and charges. Includes a comparative analysis of irrigation policies in India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka, and examples of successful farmers' irrigation organizations in India. Of interest to students and practitioners of irrigation management, rural development, and civil engineering. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Participatory Irrigation Management
Participatory Irrigation Management

Author: L. K. Joshi

Publisher:

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13:

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Collection of contributed papers presented at two conferences with reference to India, the National Conference on PIM held at New Delhi in 1997 and another at Hyderabad in 1999.

The Agricultural Groundwater Revolution
The Agricultural Groundwater Revolution

Author: Mark Giordano

Publisher: CABI

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 435

ISBN-13: 1845931734

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While addressing the issues of using groundwater in agriculture for irrigation in the developing world, this book discusses the problems associated with the degradation and overexploitation of using it. It explores the practiced and potential methods for its management in the context of agricultural development.

River Basin Trajectories
River Basin Trajectories

Author: François Molle

Publisher: IWMI

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 325

ISBN-13: 1845935381

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This book contains 11 papers which cover a range of vital topics in the areas of water, agriculture, food security and ecosystems - the entire spectrum of developing and managing water in agriculture, from fully irrigated to fully rainfed lands. They are about people and society, why they decide to adopt certain practices and not others and, in particular, how water management can help poor people. They are about ecosystems - how agriculture affects ecosystems, the goods and services ecosystems provide for food security and how water can be managed to meet both food and environmental security objectives. This is the eighth book in the series.

Mapping actors along value chains
Mapping actors along value chains

Author: Stein, C.

Publisher: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE).

Published: 2017-12-12

Total Pages: 28

ISBN-13: 9290908572

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Small Tanks in Sri Lanka
Small Tanks in Sri Lanka

Author: C. R. Panabokke

Publisher: IWMI

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 85

ISBN-13: 9290904771

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The core of this study involved an examination and analysis of certain key features of the traditional small tank cascade systems: a) the location and design of the systems in the past b) the hydro-system which considers the overall hydrological balance and groundwater conditions c) maintenance and tank use d) tank management and integration with local farming systems.