Water is being transferred out of agriculture to meet the growing demand in other areas, often without an agreement of or compensation to farmers with irrigated land and water rights. Furthermore, there is a failure to recognize that irrigation systems supply water not only for the main fields, b...
Bakker, M.
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Barker, Randolph
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Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S.
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Konradsen, Flemming
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[Multiple uses of water in irrigated areas: a case study from Sri Lanka]
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Multiple uses of water in irrigated areas: a case study from Sri Lanka
Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S.
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Bakker, M.
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[Irrigation systems as multiple-use commons: Water use in Kirindi Oya, Sri Lanka]
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Irrigation systems as multiple-use commons: Water use in Kirindi Oya, Sri Lanka
Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S.
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Valmonte-Santos, Rowena A.
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[Community action: Framework for assessing feasibility and constraints across different systems]
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Community action: Framework for assessing feasibility and constraints across different systems
Johnson, Nancy L.
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Swallow, B.M.
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Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S.
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[Research on institutions for agricultural water management under the CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food]
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Research on institutions for agricultural water management under the CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food
Bernier, Quinn
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Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S.
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[Public private partnerships for irrigation: Expanding access or increasing inequality.]
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Public private partnerships for irrigation: Expanding access or increasing inequality.
To improve their well-being, the poor in developing countries have used both collective action through formal and informal groups and property rights to natural resources. Collective Action and Property Rights for Poverty Reduction: Insights from Africa and Asia examines how these two types of in...
Mwangi, E.
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Markelova, H.
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Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S.
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[Collective action and property rights for poverty reduction: insights from Africa and Asia]
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Collective action and property rights for poverty reduction: insights from Africa and Asia
Irrigation tanks in India are common property resources. Tanks provide not only for irrigation, but also forestry, fishing, domestic water supply, livestock, and other uses. Using empirical results from a study of tank performance from 80 tanks in Tamil Nadu, South India in two time period: 1996-...
Kuppannan, Palanisami
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Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S.
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Giordano, Mark
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Koppen, Barbara C.M. van
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Ranganathan, C.R.
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[Tank performance and multiple uses in Tamil Nadu, South India-comparison of 2 time periods (1996-97 and 2009-10).]
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Tank performance and multiple uses in Tamil Nadu, South India-comparison of 2 time periods (1996-97 and 2009-10).
Strengthening the abilities of smallholder farmers in developing countries, particularly women farmers, to produce for both home and the market is currently a development priority. In many contexts, ownership of assets is strongly gendered, reflecting existing gender norms and limiting women’s ab...
Quisumbing, Agnes R.
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Rubin, Deborah
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Manfre, C.
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Waithanji, Elizabeth M.
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Bold, M. van den
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Olney, D.
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Johnson, Nancy L.
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Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S.
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[Gender, assets, and market-oriented agriculture: learning from high-value crop and livestock projects in Africa and Asia]
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Gender, assets, and market-oriented agriculture: learning from high-value crop and livestock projects in Africa and Asia
Healthy soils play a critical role in supporting agricultural productivity, climate change mitigation and resilience, and a range of ecosystem services. Degraded and poorly responsive soils cover large areas of Africa and represent the majority of poor farmers’ fields in certain regions. While th...
Zhang, Wei
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Walker, Dominic
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Hernandez, Carlos Calvo
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Elias, Marlène
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Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S.
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Nkonya, Ephraim M.
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[Gendered opportunities for improving soil health: A conceptual framework to help set the research agenda]
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Gendered opportunities for improving soil health: A conceptual framework to help set the research agenda