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Searching with a thematic focus on Agriculture and food, Agricultural biodiversity and natural resource management in India

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  Pro-poor irrigation management transfer?

  International Water Management Institute, 2003

  This briefing argues that Irrigation Management Transfer (IMT) can contribute to rural poverty by aggravating existing inequities within irrigation schemes or introducing new ones.
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  Building high-performance knowledge institutions for water management

  International Water Management Institute, 2003

  This briefing argues that many Indian water management institutions are failing to live up to their original promise, failing to deliver high-value thinking, insights or perspectives. It demonstrates that by allowing these institutions to stagnate, there is a risk of a loss of a vitally important tool for research and policy making.
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  Andhra Pradesh: the land is ours

  OpenDemocracy, 2003

  This article argues that, in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, local farmers are under pressure to embrace a future of large-scale monoculture producing crops for the global market.
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  Extension, poverty and vulnerability: the scope for policy reform. Final Report of a study for the Neuchatel Initiative

  Overseas Development Institute, 2002

  This paper reviews pro-poor agricultural extension policies, building on an earlier inception report of the same study. Based on a livelihoods approach, the authors argue that policies towards agriculture, rural development and extension have focused exclusively on increased productivity of land, as opposed to enhancing labour productivity, employment creation and vulnerability reduction.
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  Water disputes in South Asia

  Institute of Strategic Studies, Islamabad, Pakistan, 2001

  The paper examines various water sharing treaties in South Asia, with a comparative evaluation of past and future trends, followed by suggestions for a sustainable future cooperation.It examines:the Indus Water Treaty between India and Pakistan India and Bangladesh dispute over the Ganges river India and Nepal sharing the Mahakali river watersIt makes the following obser
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  Kingship, bureaucracy and participation: competing moralities of ‘decentralisation’ in south Indian irrigation

  School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 2000

  This paper attempts a long view of decentralisation in irrigation management in parts of south India. In doing so, it has attempted to place present day ‘Participatory Irrigation Management’ in perspective, particularly by drawing attention to antecedent forms of ‘decentralisation’ and suggesting that some of the practices and moralities involved persist today.
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  Improving the operation of urban water supply systems in India: a discussion of unaccounted for water

  US Agency for International Development, 2000

  Project report from the Indo-US FIRE(D) project which aims to institutionalise the delivery of commercially viable urban infrastructure and services at the state, regional and national levels.
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  Sustainable livelihoods and political capital: arguments and evidence from decentralisation and natural resource management in India

  Overseas Development Institute, 2000

  Looks at the Sustainable Livelihoods (SL) approach as an analytical framework. The potential of SL was examined by applying the framework for analysis in a research project on decentralised natural resource management in India.The SL framework was found to be a useful construct for the analysis of decentralised natural resourcemanagement.
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  Credit where credit's due: can't micro-loans do more for India's poor?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2001

  Have micro-credit programmes succeeded in meeting the needs of the poor? Are non-governmental organisations (NGOs) such as aid charities or private credit unions, better than governments at reducing poverty by bankrolling grassroots enterprise?

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