" Irrigation is critical to food security and economic growth in contemporary India. The
performance of irrigation systems is of serious concern to farmers who rely on them for their …

Expanding populations, the impacts of climate change, availability of arable land, and
availability of water for irrigation collectively strain the agricultural system. To keep pace and …

Though numerous studies have addressed the need for irrigation reform in India, most still
advocate solutions derived from the very First Irrigation Commission Report of 1903. This …

Irrigat rrigation, crucial for producing more than a third of today's total world harvest, has long
been of practical and scholarly concern because of its proven ability to increase food …

For over two decades participatory approaches have been advocated in academic and
development circles as a means of increasing the equity and productivity of public irrigation …

Water is a distinctive resource because it constitutes a direct input to almost every economic
activity, drawing a continuous thread from primary use in agriculture, through manufacturing …

Many factors are involved in the successful transfer of irrigation-system management to
farmers including providing incentives for rural development. This paper discusses the …

In the 1970''s, the Philippines embarked on a program to decentralize the management of
public irrigation. Early studies have shown that these reforms led to consistently positive …

Many countries are moving from emphasis on expansion of irrigation and water control
projects to management of increasing scarcity and competition between water users …

In resource management, we are nearing the point where a new theory of common property
resources may be emerging to take us beyond the image of the" tragedy of the commons" …