Poor performance of government managed irrigation systems persists globally despite numerous policies over the last four decades to address the problem. I argue that policy efforts to improve irrigation performance in developing countries fail in part because they are often formulated in isolatio...
Suhardiman, Diana
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[Linking irrigation development with the wider agrarian context: everyday class politics in water distribution practices in Rural Java]
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Linking irrigation development with the wider agrarian context: everyday class politics in water distribution practices in Rural Java
Amarasinghe, Upali A.
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Sugden, Fraser
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Clement, Floriane
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[Poverty, inequalities and vulnerability of the rural poor]
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Poverty, inequalities and vulnerability of the rural poor
Given the need for transformative changes towards more sustainable, integrated management of water, energy and food systems, the water-energy-food nexus concept seems highly relevant. However, while intuitively compelling, the nexus has also been criticized for abstracting and thereby dis-embeddi...
Stein, C.
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Pahl-Wostl, Claudia
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Barron, Jennie
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[Towards a relational understanding of the water-energy-food nexus: an analysis of embeddedness and governance in the upper blue Nile region of Ethiopia]
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Towards a relational understanding of the water-energy-food nexus: an analysis of embeddedness and governance in the upper blue Nile region of Ethiopia
Silva, Sanjiv de
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Curnow, J.
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Ariyatne, A.
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[Groundwater rising: agrarian resilience against climatic impacts on water resources]
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Groundwater rising: agrarian resilience against climatic impacts on water resources
The Eastern Gangetic Plains of South Asia represents a peripheral region far from the centers of global capitalist production, and this is all the more apparent in Mithilanchal, a cultural domain spanning the Nepal/Bihar border. The agrarian structure can be considered ‘semi-feudal’ in character,...
Sugden, Fraser
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[A mode of production flux: the transformation and reproduction of rural class relations in lowland Nepal and North Bihar]
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A mode of production flux: the transformation and reproduction of rural class relations in lowland Nepal and North Bihar