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Book Impacts of farmer participation for water resources management in the Punjab Province  Pakistan  An analysis of process documentation for the Hakra 4 R Distributary

Download or read book Impacts of farmer participation for water resources management in the Punjab Province Pakistan An analysis of process documentation for the Hakra 4 R Distributary written by and published by IWMI. This book was released on with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Governance of Climate Change Adaptation in Developing Countries  The Case of National Disaster Management in Bangladesh and Pakistan in Comparative Perspective

Download or read book The Governance of Climate Change Adaptation in Developing Countries The Case of National Disaster Management in Bangladesh and Pakistan in Comparative Perspective written by Tina Peissker and published by Anchor Academic Publishing (aap_verlag). This book was released on 2013-06-01 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The prospect of the adverse effects that global climate change will have on human societies, opened up a discourse about the way adaptation should be managed. In order to finance adaptation measures in the most severe affected countries, the parties of the Kyoto Protocol established the Adaptation Fund in 2007. In view of the limited resources that are available for adaptation, scales for the prioritization of countries that are based on their suspected vulnerability, have been developed in literature. But so far, indicators of vulnerability reflect only the general indicators of human development, and therefore, fail to capture the complex structures of vulnerability. In order to capture the mentioned complexity in a more satisfactory way, this book highlights the theory of collective learning. The collective learning approach assumes that vulnerability can be significantly decreased when governance systems adapt to external changes through collective learning processes. This study connects to this notion, and therefore, it assesses the influence of collective learning processes on the vulnerability of the Bangladeshi and Pakistani society towards flood hazards. This determinant of vulnerability is used to capture the matter’s complexity.

Book Sri Lanka National Agricultural Bibliography

Download or read book Sri Lanka National Agricultural Bibliography written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Institutional Change and Shared Management of Water Resources in Large Canal Systems

Download or read book Institutional Change and Shared Management of Water Resources in Large Canal Systems written by D. J. Bandaragoda and published by IWMI. This book was released on 1999 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report is based on the results of an action research program in pakistan conducted by the International Water Managament Institute (IWMI). An analysis of empirical data is presented in the light of existing theoretical kmowledge on collective action for natural resources management. the report also highlights the current constraints associated with a wider application of some of these findings, which reflect the difficulties in pursuing large-scale institutional reforms in the rural sector of developing coutries. finally, the report raises some key research issues that need to be explored further.

Book Improving International Irrigation Management With Farmer Participation

Download or read book Improving International Irrigation Management With Farmer Participation written by Norman Uphoff and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-05-20 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditionally, indigenous irrigation in many countries of Asia, Africa, and Latin America has been managed quite well by water users, who design, build, operate, and maintain often sophisticated, but usually small-scale, systems. More recently, in connection with large-scale development programs and government-managed schemes, the planned introduct

Book Use of Untreated Wastewater in Peri urban Agriculture in Pakistan

Download or read book Use of Untreated Wastewater in Peri urban Agriculture in Pakistan written by Jeroen H.J. Ensink and published by IWMI. This book was released on 2002 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The practice of using untreated wastewater for irrigation is widespread but has been largely ignored because the norm has always been that wastewater should be treated before use. Increasing water scarcity, lack of money for treatment and a clear willingness by farmers to use untreated wastewater have led to an uncontrolled expansion of wastewater use. It is therefore important to better document the practice of irrigation with untreated wastewater in order to find out how it can be improved within the financial possibilities of very low-income countries.

Book Water Resources of Pakistan

Download or read book Water Resources of Pakistan written by Muhammad Arif Watto and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-03-25 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the first comprehensive assessment of water resources in Pakistan including surface water resources and groundwater resources. It gives a detailed overview of issues and challenges related to water which have not been adequately addressed e.g. water resource vulnerability to climate change, groundwater depletion and contamination, and water governance etc. It includes a collection and compilation of unpublished and scattered data from the archives and repositories of various national institutions and organization. Given the literature dearth, this book will not only be a comprehensive assessment of water resources in Pakistan but can also can as outstanding textbook on water resource management in Pakistan. It will attract a great range of readership including water specialists, researchers, undergraduate and post graduate students and policy makers from Pakistan as well as from overseas.

Book Urban Wastewater

Download or read book Urban Wastewater written by Wim van der Hoek and published by IWMI. This book was released on 2002 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Farming communities in water-scarce regions increasingly practice the use of urban wastewater in agriculture. Untreated urban wastewater is generally considered unacceptable for direct use because of potential health risks. However, in many parts of the world, poor farmers in peri-urban areas use untreated wastewater. This situation is considered likely to continue even in the foreseeable future due to the high investment cost associated with the installation of treatment facilities.

Book Farmer Participation And Irrigation Organization

Download or read book Farmer Participation And Irrigation Organization written by Bradley W. Parlin and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2019-02-28 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book elaborates a perspective that can be used to democratize, decentralize, and privatize irrigation organizations. It uses case examples to illustrate the interrelationships between project performance, irrigation organization, and farmer participation.

Book The Policy Landscape of Agricultural Water Management in Pakistan

Download or read book The Policy Landscape of Agricultural Water Management in Pakistan written by Noora-Lisa Aberman and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2013-04-13 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Irrigation is central to Pakistan’s agriculture; and managing the country’s canal, ground, and surface water resources in a more efficient, equitable, and sustainable way will be crucial to meeting agricultural production challenges, including increasing agricultural productivity and adapting to climate change. The water component of the International Food Policy Research Institute’s Pakistan Strategy Support Program (PSSP) is working to address these topics through high-quality research and policy engagement. As one of the first activities of this program, the PSSP undertook this assessment of the policy landscape for agricultural water management in Pakistan, to better understand how to engage with stakeholders in the landscape, and to assess possible opportunity points for improving water conservation. The authors use the Net-Map method, an interview tool that combines stakeholder mapping, power mapping, and social network analysis, to examine the relationships between various institutions influencing the water sector in Pakistan. Group interviews were conducted with national stakeholders in Islamabad and with provincial stakeholders in Lahore to establish separate influence maps at the different scales. Interviewees were asked about four types of network relationships: formal authority, informal pressure, technical information, and funding. Network data was analyzed using social network analysis software and notes from interviews add further depth to the network observations. Concluding discussion focuses on the distribution of power and influence in the network and on the opportunities and challenges of recent governance reforms and implications for stakeholder engagement.

Book Design and Practice of Water Allocation Rules

Download or read book Design and Practice of Water Allocation Rules written by D. J. Bandaragoda and published by IWMI. This book was released on 1998 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The case of warabandi in pakostan; Design of warabandi; Effects of design, construction, and maintenance; Form design to practice of warabandi; Intervening causes of the present situation; Role of groundwater; Changed socioeconomic conditions.

Book Water resources management in Afghanistan  The issues and options

Download or read book Water resources management in Afghanistan The issues and options written by Qureshi, A. S. and published by IWMI. This book was released on 2002 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report presents the analysis of current status of water resources management in Afghanistan and identify steps for maximizing the use ofavailable water resources to enhance crop productivity and environmental sustainability.

Book Economic Valuation of Water Resources in Agriculture

Download or read book Economic Valuation of Water Resources in Agriculture written by R. Kerry Turner and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 2004 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this report is to produce a review on water resource valuation issues and techniques specifically for the appraisal and negotiation of raw (as opposed to bulk or retail) water resource allocation for agricultural development projects. The review considers raw water in naturally occurring watercourses, lakes, wetlands, soil and aquifers, taking an ecosystem function perspective at a catchment scale, and takes account of the demands from irrigated and rainfed agriculture. It is hoped that the review will have particular application to developing countries where agreed methods for reconciling competing uses are often absent, but nevertheless takes account of valuation approaches that have been made in post industrial economies.

Book The Impact of Irrigation and Agricultural Policy Measures on the Socio economic Situation of Farmers in the Rice Zone of the Punjab Province  Pakistan

Download or read book The Impact of Irrigation and Agricultural Policy Measures on the Socio economic Situation of Farmers in the Rice Zone of the Punjab Province Pakistan written by Abdul Qayyum Mohsin and published by Lit Verlag. This book was released on 1999 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Stakeholder Participation in Developing Institutions for Integrated Water Resources Management  Lessons from Asia

Download or read book Stakeholder Participation in Developing Institutions for Integrated Water Resources Management Lessons from Asia written by and published by IWMI. This book was released on with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A five-country river basin study in Asia used a participatory method for diagnostic investigations to learn about contextual processes, as well as for stakeholder consultation to develop action plans. The use of this methodology was encouraged by the positive results of an earlier action research program conducted in Pakistan for mobilizing farmers to form their own organizations. The method was found to be exceptionally effective, and had many advantages over the conventional methodsof field research and action planning where the stakeholders are treated as objects of research and passive recipients of development messages. The contribution of participatory learning and action in developing institutions appeared to vary across the five selected river basins, depending on thedegree to which stakeholder participation was forthcoming. This variation could be attributed to study constraints in terms of time and other resources, which acted differently on the five study teams. In some cases, conducting full-fledged participatory methods was not possible due to sociopolitical constraints, and in some others, time was too short to build sufficient awareness among the large number of stakeholders for meaningful participation. Of the five river basin case studies in China, Indonesia, Nepal, Philippines and Sri Lanka, satisfactory participation levels achieved in the cases of Sri Lanka, Philippines and Indonesia generated a momentum on their own, which helped them to initiate action plans for further institutional development.