Improving International Irrigation Management With Farmer Participation: Getting The Process Right

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

Business & Money

Uphoff, Norman

Economics

Routledge

Improving International Irrigation Management With Farmer Participation: Getting The Process Right (WESTVIEW STUDIES IN WATER POLICY AND MANAGEMENT)

Science & Math

Earth Sciences

Westview Pr

The System of Rice Intensification, known as SRI, is a management strategy for crop improvement. Its ideas, insights and practices are based on scientifically validated knowledge for increasing the production of not only irrigated rice but of other crops as well. SRI represents a paradigm shift in agricultural thinking and practice toward agroecological farming that can be used by even the poorest smallholding farmers in ecologically fragile regions of the world to achieve food security in the face of the climate-change challenges ahead. When the author Norman Uphoff first learned about SRI in Madagascar in 1993, this production system which offered higher yields with reduced inputs seemed implausible to him. But the professor put aside his skepticism after seeing farmers who had been getting rice yields of just two tons per hectare produce four times more rice—for three years in a row—on their very poor soils, not changing their varieties or relying on agrochemical inputs, and using less water. Now, he's helping to disseminate this dramatically effective methodology with this accessible, easy-to-use sourcebook. It offers explanations, research references, vivid pictures, and concrete examples of the award-winning SRI methodology to anyone interested in the development of practicable sustainable food systems.

The System of Rice Intensification: Frequently Asked Questions in Black and White

Agricultural Sciences

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Reasons for Success: Learning from Instructive Experiences in Rural Development (International Development)

* The indispensable follow-up to Reasons for Hope * Recommends action to improve rural living standards From an outside perspective that contrasts the personal, firsthand views of the first text, the authors impart critical, dynamic ideas for improving the lives of those in rural communities. They contend that real progress depends less on money alone, and more upon passionate ideas, acting on those ideas through leadership, and implementing appropriate methods for change.

Politics & Social Sciences

Esman, Milton J.

Krishna, Anirudh

Social Sciences

Kumarian Press

* The indispensable follow-up to Reasons for Hope* Recommends action to improve rural living standardsFrom an outside perspective that contrasts the personal, firsthand views of the first text, the authors impart critical, dynamic ideas for improving the lives of those in rural communities. They contend that real progress depends less on money alone, and more upon passionate ideas, acting on those ideas through leadership, and implementing appropriate methods for change.

Industries

This book recounts the drama of a remarkably successful experiment that introduced farmer organization for self-managed development in the largest and most run-down conflict-ridden irrigation system in Sri Lanka.

Learning from Gal Oya

Intermediate Technology Publications

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