Poor performance of government-managed irrigation systems persists globally. This paper argues that addressing performance requires not simply more investment or different policy approaches, but reform of the bureaucracies responsible for irrigation management. Based on reform experiences in The ...
Suhardiman, Diana
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Giordano, Mark
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Rap, Edwin
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Wegerich, Kai
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[Bureaucratic reform in irrigation: a review of four case studies]
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Bureaucratic reform in irrigation: a review of four case studies
Vietnam’s irrigation development policy directions are divided between the objective to continue increasing rice production through agricultural intensification and to improve farmer’s livelihoods through crop diversification and integrated farming. While the first objective requires the construc...
Hoanh, Chu Thai
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Suhardiman, Diana
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Anh, L.T.
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[Irrigation development in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta: towards polycentric water governance?]
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Irrigation development in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta: towards polycentric water governance?
Agricultural intensification, now commonly referred to as sustainable intensification, is presented in development discourse as a key means to simultaneously improve food security and reduce rural poverty without harming the environment. Taking a village in Laos as a case study, we show how gover...
Suhardiman, Diana
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Giordano, Mark
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Leebouapao, L.
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Keovilignavong, Oulavanh
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[Farmers’ strategies as building block for rethinking sustainable intensification]
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Farmers’ strategies as building block for rethinking sustainable intensification
This article examines changing contexts and emerging processes related to “land grabbing.” In particular, it uses the case of Laos to analyze the driving forces behind land takings, how such drivers are implied in land policies, and how affected people respond depending on their socio-economic as...
Suhardiman, Diana
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Giordano, Mark
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Keovilignavong, Oulavanh
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Sotoukee, Touleelor
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[Revealing the hidden effects of land grabbing through better understanding of farmers’ strategies in dealing with land loss]
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Revealing the hidden effects of land grabbing through better understanding of farmers’ strategies in dealing with land loss
Land grabbing has transformed rural environments across the global South, generating resistance or political reactions “from below”. In authoritarian countries like Laos, where resource investments are coercively developed and insulated from political dissent, resistance appears absent at first g...
Miles, K.-L.
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Suhardiman, Diana
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Dwyer, M.B.
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[State spaces of resistance: industrial tree plantations and the struggle for land in Laos]
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State spaces of resistance: industrial tree plantations and the struggle for land in Laos
Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) still stands today as one of the most influential governance models in the water sector. Whereas previous analyses of IWRM have focused on the effectiveness of the institutional models it embodies and on policy implementation gaps, we examine the meani...
Clement, Floriane
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Suhardiman, Diana
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Bharati, Luna
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[IWRM Discourses, Institutional Holy Grail and Water Justice in Nepal]
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IWRM Discourses, Institutional Holy Grail and Water Justice in Nepal
Regional economic integration has become the dominant development pathway promoted, endorsed, and followed by many developing country governments in South East Asia and globally. Focusing on hydropower development, this article shows how forces of globalization manifested in the Myanmar governmen...
Suhardiman, Diana
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Rutherford, J.
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Bright, S. J.
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[Putting violent armed conflict in the center of the Salween hydropower debates]
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Putting violent armed conflict in the center of the Salween hydropower debates
Previous analysis of transboundary water governance has been focused primarily on state-centred approaches. The articles in this special section move us forward from this focus in three ways. First, they highlight the crucial role played by non-state actors in shaping water governance outcomes. S...
Suhardiman, Diana
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Giordano, Mark
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[Process-focused analysis in transboundary water governance research]
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Process-focused analysis in transboundary water governance research
Since the late 1990s, river basin planning has become a central idea in water resources management and a mainstream approach supported by international donors through their water programs globally. This article presents river basin planning as a function of power and contested arena of power stru...
Suhardiman, Diana
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Bastakoti, Ram C.
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Karki, Emma
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Bharati, Luna
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[The politics of river basin planning and state transformation processes in Nepal]
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The politics of river basin planning and state transformation processes in Nepal
This report presents a discussion among IWMI?s Asian researchers on the strategy for policy research on canal irrigation in India. Poor service delivery, persistence of head-tail inequity, growing gap between irrigation potential created and utilized, shrinking of command area despite growing inv...
Shah, Tushaar
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Anwar, Arif A.
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Amarasinghe, Upali A.
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Hoanh, Chu Thai
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Reddy, Junna Mohan
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Molle, Francois
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MMukherji, Aditi
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Prathapar, Sanmugam A.
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Suhardiman, Diana
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Qureshi, Asad Sarwar
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Wegerich, Kai
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[Canal irrigation conundrum: applying contingency theory to irrigation system management in India.]
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Canal irrigation conundrum: applying contingency theory to irrigation system management in India.