This article analyses policy trends in Indonesian irrigation, particularly during the last five decades, from the perspective of dominant narratives, as authored, suggested and pushed by international donors. It argues that international donors' adherence to 'deferred maintenance' as the core ele...
Suhardiman, Diana
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Mollinga, P.P.
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[Correlations, causes and the logic of obscuration: donor shaping of dominant narratives in Indonesia's irrigation development]
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Correlations, causes and the logic of obscuration: donor shaping of dominant narratives in Indonesia's irrigation development
This study examines the institutional design and actual performance, of payments for ecosystem services (PES) in Vietnam. Taking Payments for Forest Environmental Services Program (PFES Program) implementation in Da Bac district, Hoa Binh province as a case study, it brings to light how PES progr...
Tran, T.T.H.
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Zeller, M.
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Suhardiman, Diana
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[Payments for ecosystem services in Hoa Binh province, Vietnam: an institutional analysis]
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Payments for ecosystem services in Hoa Binh province, Vietnam: an institutional analysis
State control of land plays a critical role in producing land dispossession throughout the Global South. In Myanmar, the state’s approach towards territorial expansion has driven the country’s system of land governance, resulting in widespread and systemic land grabbing. This article investigates...
Suhardiman, Diana
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Kenney-Lazar, M.
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Meinzen-Dick, R.
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[The contested terrain of land governance reform in Myanmar]
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The contested terrain of land governance reform in Myanmar
This article analyzes the internal logic of the upeti system in Indonesian irrigation and brings to light how corruption rules are shaped through complex socio-political relationships reflected in the organizational culture of the irrigation agency. Based on 100 interviews with water sector profe...
Suhardiman, Diana
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Mollinga, P.P.
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[Institutionalized corruption in Indonesian irrigation: an analysis of the upeti system]
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Institutionalized corruption in Indonesian irrigation: an analysis of the upeti system
Following the National League for Democracy’s landslide victory in the 2015 national election, Myanmar embarked on a series of legal and political transitions. This paper highlights parallel processes alongside such transitions. Linking land governance with the ongoing peace processes, and taking...
Suhardiman, Diana
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Bright, J.
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Palmano, C.
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[The politics of legal pluralism in the shaping of spatial power in Myanmar’s land governance]
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The politics of legal pluralism in the shaping of spatial power in Myanmar’s land governance
Canal irrigation and the way it has been managed continue to be at the central stage of irrigation development debates. This article looks at Irrigation Management Transfer policy processes in the seven interconnected irrigation systems in Kulon Progo district, Yogyakarta province, Indonesia. It ...
Suhardiman, Diana
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[Irrigation management transfer and the shaping of irrigation realities in Indonesia: from means to empower farmers to a tool to transfer rent seeking?]
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Irrigation management transfer and the shaping of irrigation realities in Indonesia: from means to empower farmers to a tool to transfer rent seeking?
Suhardiman, Diana
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Giordano, Mark
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Molle, Francois
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[Scalar Disconnect: The logic of transboundary water governance in the Mekong]
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Scalar Disconnect: The logic of transboundary water governance in the Mekong
Groundwater use for agriculture has the potential to improve rural households’ income and reduce poverty, but the linkages are not always straightforward. Taking Laos as a case study, this article illustrates how differential access to water, land, and capital shape farmers’ livelihood strategies...
Suhardiman, Diana
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Pavelic, Paul
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Keovilignavong, Oulavanh
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Giordano, Mark
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[Putting farmers’ strategies in the center of agricultural groundwater use in the Vientiane Plain, Laos]
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Putting farmers’ strategies in the center of agricultural groundwater use in the Vientiane Plain, Laos