The 9th Meeting of the Conference of the Contracting Parties
|"Wetlands and water: supporting life, sustaining livelihoods" |
9th Meeting of the Conference of the Contracting Parties
to the Convention on Wetlands (Ramsar, Iran, 1971)
Kampala, Uganda, 8-15 November 2005
Ramsar COP9 DOC. 20
Application by the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) for International Organization Partner (IOP) status: background information
(see also COP9 DR17)
Explanatory note by the Secretariat
This document contains background information provided by the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) about its scope and operations, in support of its application for COP9 conferral of International Organization Partner (IOP) status (COP9 DR17).
Information is provided below on current IWMI objectives and activities in relation to each of the "Rules for conferring the status of International Organization Partner of the Convention on Wetlands" (Annex to Ramsar COP7 Resolution VII.3).
This information is followed by Annexes which list 1) Locations and contact details for IWMI offices around the world; 2) Selected wetland projects by IWMI and its partners; 3) Selected IWMI publications (1998-2004); and 4) selected M.Sc. and Ph.D. theses and ongoing projects.
Information on current IWMI objectives and activities in relation to the "Rules for conferring the status of International Organization Partner of the Convention on Wetlands" (Annex to Ramsar COP7 Resolution VII.3)
1. Each of the characteristics required for Ramsar IOPs by the Annex to Resolution VII.3 is provided in italic text, followed by a summary of IWMI's status and activities in relation to that characteristic.
1. International organizations, both intergovernmental and non-governmental, formally recognized as Partners of the Convention on Wetlands by its Conference of the Contracting Parties will be expected to contribute on a regular basis and to the best of their abilities to the further development of the policies and technical and scientific tools of the Convention and to their application.
2. IWMI is an autonomous, non-profit, international research and development institute (international non-governmental organization).
3. IWMI is one of 15 international agricultural research centers and Future Harvest Centers supported by the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), a strategic alliance of countries, international and regional organizations, and private foundations supporting IWMI and the other international agricultural centers that work with national agricultural, water and environmental research systems and civil society organizations, including the private sector. The alliance mobilizes agricultural science to reduce poverty, foster human well being, promote agricultural growth, and protect the environment, as well as generating global public goods.
4. Through its 359 staff (including 247 technical and support staff), IWMI implements an ongoing programme of activities concerning water and land resources management, agriculture, livelihoods and the environment (see Annex 1). It has 112 researchers with a wide range of interdisciplinary expertise (social science and economics: 33; natural and physical sciences: 46; engineering: 33); 59 researchers are from the South and 53 from the North, 31 are female and 81 male.
5. IWMI has long participated in the debates about water and sustainable environmental management globally and regionally, including providing support for the Convention. This has occurred through direct support for the STRP (see below) and through project implementation primarily, but not only, in Asia and Africa. IWMI's capacity to provide further support for the Convention has been increased through recent recruitments specifically to enhance activities that have been at the forefront of the Convention's technical priorities.
2. Partners shall be invited to participate in an observer capacity and as advisors in all activities of the Convention, including the meetings of the Conference of Contracting Parties, the Standing Committee, and the Scientific and Technical Review Panel, as well as regional and subregional meetings.
6. In response to invitations, IWMI initiated contact with the Convention and participated in Ramsar COP8, and supported through the provision of technical advice the debates on inter alia Resolutions on dams, agriculture, and water allocations.
7. IWMI was afforded STRP observer status by COP8; it presently co-leads the STRP's Working Group on Water Resources Management and has actively contributed to the products produced by this group.
8. IWMI has also participated as an expert technical observer to the 5th Meeting of the Convention's Mediterranean Wetlands Committee and has agreed to further support the inventory and assessment program under development.
9. IWMI actively supported the Tsunami Working Group established at the request of the Ramsar Secretariat early in 2005 and has provided support for others involved in the humanitarian and reconstruction efforts. IWMI's capacity to further support the Convention and participate in activities as outlined in the criteria for acceptance as an IOP has been increased through further staff recruitment in 2005. In addition to attendance at STRP meetings, a further IWMI representative attended the 31st meeting of the Standing Committee.
3. Partners may also be invited, if required, to contribute to the evaluation of project proposals, project implementation, and the evaluation of project results, as well as to participate in the development of policy and technical and/or scientific instruments for the application of the Convention.
10. IWMI has already contributed substantially to the development of policy and technical and/or scientific instruments through its work with the STRP and the Tsunami Working Group, and is currently contributing to project-related activities with the IOPs and Secretariat. Most notably, these include an assessment of water management in agriculture as a contribution to the specific interest of Ramsar Parties in the interaction between water/agriculture management and wetlands. IWMI also participated in the drafting of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment synthesis report on wetlands that will be presented to COP9.
11. Given IWMI's technical expertise in water management, policy and analysis, the IOPs have invited IWMI to contribute to a side event planned for COP9 where the implications of water and agriculture management for the wise use of wetlands will be considered.
4. The status of Partner shall be conferred to international intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations taking into account the following characteristics:
4.1. Have a programme of activities that is global or at least covers many countries in one or more regions of the world.
12. IWMI's current programme focuses primarily on the developing countries of Africa and Asia, covering more than 20 countries in Africa, 18 countries in Asia and eight countries in Latin America. Through its research, IWMI is engaged with local partners in all world regions.
13. The Institute also is expanding its area of activities in North Africa through development of a collaborative project with the Ramsar Convention's MedWet Initiative.
14. Several of IWMI's projects have regional emphasis and/or are at global scale, such as the Comprehensive Assessment of Water Management in Agriculture with outcomes available as international public goods. Other globally relevant projects being developed with the support of Ramsar partners include: a global wetland inventory and mapping project, with planned implementation through a regionalized approach; analysis of the role of water management in ensuring the wise use of selected Ramsar sites; catchment analysis of changes in sediment and water flows on wetlands and the services they provide for people; and the relationship between the ecological condition of coastal wetlands and livelihood recovery in tsunami affected regions.
4.2 Have a statement of purpose that explicitly, or by clear implication, includes the conservation and sustainable use of wetlands.
15. IWMI's mission is "improved management of water and land resources for food, livelihoods and nature".
16. Its research agenda has evolved recently to enhance integration across the following four main thematic areas of research with associated objectives:
a) Basin Water Management: to provide better understanding of the tradeoffs and options in agricultural water management at basin scale and contribute to improved equity and efficiency in water use through the development of appropriate tools and methodologies for analysis and management;
b) Land, Water and Livelihoods: to identify and test interventions to conserve resources and increase land and water productivity for improved livelihoods, health and equity across the continuum of water management options, within integrated social-ecological landscapes;
c) Agriculture, Water and Cities: to identify and test interventions for the rapidly growing sector of urban and peri-urban agriculture to ensure safe and productive use of wastewaters, improve human health and nutrition, and enhance sustainability of high input peri-urban systems;
d) Water Management and Environment: to identify and test interventions that safeguard the environment and associated delivery of ecosystem services vital to human well-being, while enhancing land and water resources management for agriculture. Particular attention is being paid to enhancing the benefits and minimizing detrimental impacts in agriculture-wetlands interactions, addressing environmental water requirements in basins, and valuing the contributions of ecosystem services to livelihoods.
17. Health and Policies/Institutions, as well as Global scale issues, are being addressed in a cross-cutting manner through established communities of practice.
4.3 Have a track record of experience in providing support to and/or implementing on-the-ground projects that contribute to wetland conservation and sustainable use.
18. IWMI has implemented and continues to undertake a diverse range of partnered projects on wetland issues, as well as numerous projects that are of direct relevance for wetland conservation and wise use (see Annexes 2 and 3). Through its various capacity building initiatives, IWMI has also supported several completed and ongoing M.Sc. and Ph.D. projects related to wetlands (see Annex 4). IWMI annually offers internships to M.Sc. and B.Sc. students from Asia, Africa and Europe to work on projects in Southeast Asia, South Asia and Africa.
19. IWMI's GIS and remote sensing expertise haas been used to reassess the extent of irrigated land around the globe and provided reliable figures on the extent of rice fields, and have supported coastal change analysis in tsunami-affected locations. Specific wetland management projects are underway in southern and eastern Asia and ongoing support is being offered for wetland capacity building globally, through existing partnerships. IWMI continues to provide active support for the activities of the IOPs both globally and regionally and has long supported analysis of and analyses in support of integrated water resource management.
4.4 Have demonstrated experience in implementing partnership ventures such as training and education, technical and/or scientific expertise, policy development, and/or evaluation and assessment, particularly where such ventures would bring new and additional benefits to the functioning of the Ramsar partnership.
20. IWMI brings new perspectives to the global arena on the water and food debate, with a well-developed focus on environment. It has been actively engaged in the development of a number of complementary initiatives in this regard.
21. In particular, the Comprehensive Assessment of Water Management in Agriculture (CA), a 5-year CGIAR initiative convened by IWMI and ending in 2006, has brought together scientists from over 90 institutes worldwide with policymakers, development professionals, and water users to take stock of the costs, benefits and impacts of the past 50 years of water development for agriculture, evaluate current water management challenges and solutions, fill key knowledge gaps and identify the best options for the future. It is anticipated that the results of the CA will enable governments, donors and farming communities to make better-quality water decisions in the near future and over the next 25 years.
22. The Ramsar Convention has been recognized as an intergovernmental end-user in relation to provision of information from the CA in support of the Convention's attention to agriculture, water and wetlands issues in implementation of Resolution VIII.34. A technical Wetlands and Agriculture report addressing key questions from the Convention's perspective is planned as a key output of the CA process, as are a series of books consolidating the state of knowledge on agriculture, environment, fisheries, basin management and other related topics.
23. The CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food (CPWF), developed under IWMI leadership and established in late 2002 for a first six-year phase, is an international research, extension and capacity-building initiative that has as its development objective increasing the productivity of water for food and livelihoods, in a manner that is environmentally sustainable and socially acceptable. The CPWF, chaired and hosted by IWMI, is managed by a 19-member joint-venture consortium of partners comprising CGIAR Future Harvest Centers including IWMI, National Agricultural Research and Extension Systems, international NGOs and Advanced Research Institutes. The programme's intermediate objective is "to maintain the level of global diversions of water to agriculture at the level of the year 2000, while increasing food production, to achieve internationally adopted targets for decreasing malnourishment and rural poverty by the year 2015, particularly in rural and peri-urban areas in river basins with low average incomes and high physical, economic or environmental water scarcity or water stress, with a specific focus on low-income groups within these areas."
24. The CPWF encompasses five interrelated research themes, targeting: aquatic ecosystems and fisheries; water and people in catchments; integrated basin water management systems; the global and national food and water system; and crop-water productivity improvement. The themes serve as the focal point for synthesizing results from the various countries and regions, and bring out generic conclusions from the overall research programme. Research topics under these themes are addressed through a range of projects in nine benchmark river basins across the developing world (in addition to other sites), which provide a geographical focus and represent an appropriate unit (the basin) to cover the convergence of water- and land- related issues. The benchmark basins are: the Sao Francisco, Brazil; Andean system; Mekong; Yellow; Indo-Gangetic; Karkheh, Iran; Limpopo, southern Africa; Nile; and Volta, West Africa.
25. The Global Dialogue on Water, Food and Environment, established by IWMI, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), IUCN, Global Water Partnership (GWP), International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage (ICID), WWF, International Federation of Agricultural Producers (IFAP), United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), World Health Organization (WHO) and World Water Council (WWC) in 2001 to improve water resources management by bridging the gap between the food and environmental sectors through open and transparent dialogues and knowledge sharing, has just come to an end. Several local to regional dialogues and new partnerships are ongoing, however, as a result of the programme, and a knowledge base has been produced, providing best practice information, tools and methods from the programme's suite of targeted studies.
26. The ongoing IWMI-Tata Water Policy Research Program was established in 2000 under a financial partnership between IWMI and Sir Ratan Tata Trust, Mumbai, India, to promote practical, policy research in water resources management. Its objective is to help policy makers at central, state and local levels address their water challenges in areas such as sustainable groundwater management, water scarcity, and rural poverty, by translating research findings into practical policy recommendations. The Program also provides grant financing to Indian scientists and institutes interested in cooperating on research on water resources. It has worked with some 40 partners and completed over 70, usually small, research projects thus far.
27. IWMI is also the convening and host institute of a CGIAR-initiated (2000-ongoing), international System-wide Initiative on Malaria and Agriculture (SIMA) addressing the goal of "malaria reduction resulting in improved health and well being, increased agricultural productivity, and poverty alleviation".
28. IWMI's established Information and Knowledge Group has an ongoing Knowledge Center Initiative with the goal of further developing IWMI into a future world class knowledge centre on water, food and the environment, to ensure, among other objectives, knowledge sharing with partner organizations and capacity building.
4.5 Have a positive reputation for being willing and able to cooperate with national and international bodies, including both governmental and non-governmental ones.
29. In addition to the cooperation at national and international levels required as a CGIAR Center for projects and for the major programmes mentioned above, IWMI is developing collaboration with the MedWet Initiative in pursuance of Resolution VIII.34 and is linked with the Convention on Biological Diversity through its joint programme work with Ramsar.
30. IWMI is a member of IUCN (March 2001, Membership No. IN/21216) and the World Water Council (January 1997, Membership No. 1997032425), as well as an associate member of the Asia Pacific Association of Agricultural Research Institutions (January 1997).
31. IWMI is one of three Global Water Partnership (GWP) Advisory Centers globally, and it hosts the Sri Lanka Country Water Partnership and GWP South Asia Regional Council Secretariat. It also houses the International Center for Underutilized Crops (ICUC).
32. Reference has already been made to IWMI's supportive relationship with the IOPs. This has also extended to greater cooperation between UN organizations and other institutions and NGOs seeking to develop greater analysis of the role of wetlands in supporting biodiversity and services provided for people.
4.6 Have stated their readiness to actively contribute on a regular basis to the further development of the policies and tools of the Convention on Wetlands and their application on the ground, particularly by assisting Contracting Parties to meet their obligations under the Convention.
33. This has already been shown by demonstration: as part of IWMI's participation as an appointed observer organization to the Scientific and Technical Review Panel, the IWMI STRP representative co-leads the STRP's Working Group 3 (Water Resources Management), leads a cross-cutting specialist group on Agriculture, and is closely involved in the preparation of scientific and technical guidance for consideration by COP9 on inter alia environmental flow assessment, river basin management, and management of agriculture in Ramsar sites and other wetlands.
34. IWMI's capacity to extend this support and contribution has been increased through further recruitment in 2005 and is accompanied by a proposal being developed with the Secretariat to provide more support for the STRP, as outlined in the options being prepared for the future operations of this Panel. Given the strength of IWMI's regional program and office structure, the Institute is keen to discuss ways in which it could contribute to specific regional inputs to the STRP under the proposed changes to the modus operandi. In this manner, IWMI may be able to work with Contracting Parties and scientific institutions to debate and develop technical documents and/or specific techniques to assist with the implementation of existing guidance from the Convention, or develop common regional inputs to the STRP processes. This is an extension to IWMI's proposed ongoing support to the STRP through participation at meetings and contributions to appropriate technical working groups, and reflects the request from Contracting Parties for the STRP to engage effectively with National Focal Points and regional experts.
35. Taking into account requests to strengthen the Communication, Education and Public Awareness (CEPA) component of the Convention and the STRP, IWMI is interested in discussing further ways of extending the concepts and regional priorities developed by the CEPA group and those outlined in previous resolution that promoted the Ramsar Training Service. IWMI through its own knowledge exchange initiatives, and linkages with the CGIAR network and university concept, may be able to actively contribute to the achievement of CEPA activities and provide direct support for the concepts espoused under the Ramsar Training Service (Recommendation 6.5: Establishment of further wetland manager training programmes), noting recent initiatives for the Convention to strengthen its support for capacity building at all appropriate levels.
4.7 Are prepared to sign a Memorandum of Cooperation with the Bureau of the Convention, where the partnership agreement should be spelt out fully.
36. A Memorandum of Cooperation between IWMI and the Ramsar Bureau has already been signed, on 26 January 2004, which concerns cooperation especially on agriculture, water and wetlands issues.
37. IWMI is now in a stronger position through extended partnerships and recruitment to develop further cooperative mechanisms, including the proposal to provide more support for the STRP regional operations and input (see COP9 DR12). This provides an exciting opportunity for IWMI to achieve its own mission in parallel with the Convention and its existing partners.
Locations and contact details for IWMI offices
127, Sunil Mawatha, Pelawatte,
Battaramulla, Sri Lanka.
P. O. Box 2075, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
Telephone: +94-11 2787404, 2784080
Fax: +94-11 2786854
|Nepal Office, |
Department of Irrigation, Room # 412 & 413,
GPO 8975 EPC 416, Kathmandu, Nepal.
Telephone: +977-1 5542306 (Direct)
+977-1 5535382 (Ext. 412 & 413)
Mobile Tel: +977-98510-22573
Fax: +977-1 5536219
|Global Research Division |
127, Sunil Mawatha, Pelawatte,
Battaramulla, Sri Lanka.
P. O. Box 2075, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
Telephone: +94-11 2787404, 2784080
Fax: +94-11 2786854
|Regional Office for Pakistan, |
Central Asia and Middle East
12KM Multan Road, Chowk Thokar Niaz Baig,
Lahore 53700, Pakistan.
Telephone: +92-42 5410050-53 (4 lines)
Fax: +92 42-5410054
|Regional Office for Africa |
141, Cresswell Street, Weavind Park 0184
Pretoria, South Africa.
Mailing Address: Private Bag X813, Silverton 0127, Pretoria, South Africa.
Telephone: +27-12 845-9100
Fax: +27-12 845-9110
Apartment No. 123,
Home No. 6, Murtazaeva Street,
Tashkent 700000, Uzbekistan.
Telephone: +998-71 1370445 / 1372173
Fax: +998-71 1370317
|Sub Regional Office for |
Nile Basin & Eastern Africa
C/o ILRI-Ethiopia Campus, Wereda 17,
Kebele 21, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
P. O. Box 5689, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Telephone: +251-1 457222/3 or 463215 Ext: 346
Fax: +251-1 461252/464645
C/o. Iranian Agricultural Engineering Research Institute (IAERI)
P.O. Box 31585-845, Karaj, Iran
Telephone: +98-261 2716804
Fax: +98-261 2706277
|Sub Regional Office for West Africa |
IWMI Ghana, CSIR Campus, Martin Odei Block,
Airport Res. Area, Accra, Ghana.
Mailing Address: IWMI Ghana, PMB CT 112, Cantonments, Accra, Ghana.
Telephone: +233-(0) 21 784752-4
Fax: +233-(0) 21 784752
|Regional Office for Southeast Asia |
(Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Pacific Islands, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam)
7TH Floor, IFRPD Building,
Jetujak, Bangkok 10900 Thailand.
Mailing Address: P. O. Box 1025, Kasetsart University, Bangkok 10903, Thailand.
|Ghana - Second Office |
University Liaison Office,
C/o KNUST, Kumasi, Ghana.
Telephone/Fax: 00233-(0) 51-60206
Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy,
Chinese Academy of Sciences,
Datun Road, Anwai, Beijing, 100101, China.
Telephone: +86-10 64889440, 64856535, 64856837
Fax: +86-10 64856533
|Kenya - Project Office |
IWMI - Nairobi,
C/o World Agroforestry Center
P O Box 30677-00100 GPO
Telephone/Fax: +254 20 7224000/+254 20 7224001
|Laos PDR |
National Agriculture & Forestry
Research Institute (NAFRI),
Ministry of Agriculture & Forestry,
PO Box 811, Vientiane.
Telephone: +856-20 502680
Fax: +856-21 414374
|Regional Office for South Asia |
C/o ICRISAT, Patancheru, 502 324
Andhra Pradesh, India.
Telephone: +91-40 30713071
Fax: +91-40 30713074, 30713075
IRD-IWMI, National Institute for Soils and Fertilizers (NISF),
Dong Ngac. Tu Liem District, Ha Noi, Vietnam.
Telephone: +84 (4) 754 32 57
Fax: + 84 (4) 972 06 30
|IWMI-TATA Water Policy Program |
Anand Field Office,
Elecon Premises, Anand-Sojitra Road,
Vallabh Vidyanagar 388 120, Anand, Gujarat, India.
Telephone: +91 2692-229311-13
Fax: +91 2692-229310
Dept. of Irrigated Agriculture
Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Tel: 855 012 300531
Fax: 855 023 885840
|New Delhi |
South Asia Liaison Office,
2nd Floor, NASC Complex, DPS Marg,
Pusa Campus, New Delhi 110 012, India.
Telephone: +91-11 25840811-2
Fax: +91-11 25841294
Selected wetland projects by IWMI and partners
For further information on IWMI's activities and publications see: http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/
CP - Challenge Program on Water and Food; CA - Comprehensive Assessment of Water Management in Agriculture.
|Project title||Brief description|
|Expansion without extinction: how can biodiversity be preserved in irrigation systems?||Project supports formulation of strategies for biodiversity conservation with large-scale water resource development while protecting/enhancing the livelihoods of the rural poor. 2002 Phase funded by IWMI (USD 115 480). 2003-2005. Joint project with IUCN Sri Lanka and Mahaweli Authority of Sri Lanka, funded by the Royal Netherlands Embassy, Sri Lanka. USD 700 000.|
|Sustainable management of inland wetlands in Southern Africa: a livelihoods and ecosystems approach.||To generate knowledge to assist in sustainable management of wetlands in southern African countries, by (i) assisting the countries to put in place or to enhance mechanisms that minimize the degradation of wetland ecosystems in order to optimize the ecosystem and livelihood benefits that are generated by these ecosystems; (ii) generating generic guidelines, tools and methodologies for sustainable land and water management in wetlands that will also be useful for other parts of Africa and for the implementation of the GEF OP15. Project within Umbrella Action Program, funded by GEF, co-financed by CP, includes contributions of time from government agencies in eight countries where it will be implemented (Mozambique, Lesotho, Swaziland, South Africa, Zambia, Malawi, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe). 2004-2007. USD 2 330 461.|
|Wetlands-based livelihoods in the Limpopo basin: balancing social welfare and environmental security.||To contribute to enhancing food security and improving the livelihoods of wetland-dependent communities by increasing productivity of water and optimizing and maintaining wetland ecosystem services, using a detailed investigation of wetlands in two subcatchments of the Limpopo River Basin (Umzingwane, Zimbabwe and Changane, Mozambique). The project addresses issues of use of wetlands for crop water productivity in wetlands, agriculture in upper catchments, aquatic ecosystems, and integrated basin water management systems. It will generate knowledge on trade-offs among several wetland uses. CP-funded project. USD 1 084 144. 2004-2007.|
|Improved planning of large dam operation: using decision support systems to optimize livelihood benefits, safeguard health and protect the environment.||Nile basin. Funded CP project. The project will be extended to Mozambique if additional funds are acquired. USD 925 156. 4 years.|
|Environmental flows: theory and applications.||To develop IWMI programme on environmental flow assessment. Development of desktop environmental flow assessment method for East Rapti River, Nepal. Workshop on Environmental Flows, Delhi, India, 2005. Rapid Environmental flow assessment of the Huong River, Viet Nam, with IUCN. 2004-2005. IWMI funds (USD 57 000).|
|Impact of irrigation on poverty and the environment.||Development of methods for assessing the impacts of irrigation on ecosystems. CA funded project, Ethiopia. USD 255 273.|
|Effects of Irrigation systems on wetland ecosystems in developing countries.||Review on impacts of irrigation and other forms of agriculture on inland and coastal environments in developing countries. CA project.|
|Identifying sustainable options for the mitigation of diffuse agricultural pollution.||To develop improved understanding of the interaction between diffuse agricultural pollution from large-scale irrigation and impact on the river environment and downstream livelihoods, with possible solutions identified to improve the quality of water resources and targeted towards these impacts. Case studies in Egypt and Sri Lanka. DFID-funded project focused on case studies of wetlands in Egypt and Sri Lanka. Mott MacDonald Ltd, UK (Lead) and IWMI. 2004-2006. USD 90 658.|
|Classifying wetland potential for agriculture.||Framework for establishing wetland working potential. Completed 2004. IWMI funds.|
|Improving productivity of rice irrigation upstream of the Usangu wetlands, Tanzania, to release water for downstream uses.||Joint project with University of East Anglia (UK) and Sokoine University (Tanzania).|
|Health and environment component of the investments in agricultural water in Sub-Saharan Africa project.||Project for World Bank and African Development Bank to be completed in 2005. Three case studies completed on: (1) health impacts of small reservoirs in Burkina Faso; (2) comparison of the impacts of different agricultural water development projects in Ghana, using selected environmental and social indicators; (3) environmental and health impact assessment of dambo utilization in Zambia.|
|Developing a digital wetlands database and maps for wetland management in Sri Lanka.||A wetland digital Database will be developed through inventorying, characterizing and mapping of Sri Lankan National Wetlands. Digital maps of the inventoried wetlands will be used to assist site management. Central Environmental Authority Sri Lanka, IUCN Sri Lanka, IWMI. US$ 149,000 (mapping component only). 2005-2006.|
|Pro-poor intervention strategies in irrigated agriculture in Asia.||Follow-up phase of the IWMI-ADB research project expanding the scope and coverage of issues in a book synthesis that includes a chapter on poverty and environment. 2005.|
|Case studies of sustainable development in wetlands, Zambia and Tanzania.||Investigation of the dynamics and benefits of natural resource use and agriculture in wetlands in Tanzania and Zambia. One component of proposed Umbrella Action Program on wetland development and management. Four case studies conducted in each of Tanzania and Zambia to obtain detailed information on the: multiple uses, values and diverse benefits that wetlands provide rural communities; impact of specific (in particular agricultural) interventions and management strategies on the benefits to be gained from wetlands and the possible harmful impacts of such interventions. FAO-Netherlands Partnership Program and the Land and Water Development Division of FAO. 2003-2004. USD 22 860.|
|Impact of tsunami on natural resources and livelihoods.||Hambantota, Sri Lanka, post-tsunami needs assessment. Groundwater and water supply study. IWMI funds (USD 12 850).|
Agro-ecosystem management for human health in Uda-Walawe irrigation scheme (Sri Lanka).
|To increase the productivity of water in the Uda Walawe basin while reducing health risks and protecting the environment through evaluating the impact of different water management techniques on agrochemical inputs, vector breeding and the availability of water for domestic purposes. 2000-2003. USD 149 900. International Development Research Centre and IWMI.|
|Conservation of wetland biodiversity in the South and East Mediterranean region through reform of the agricultural sector as a key water user.||GEF PDF A submitted by MedWet (lead) and IWMI. FAO-SNEA report prepared on: prospects for mitigating the impacts of the use of water in agriculture on the wetlands of three North African countries: Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia.|
|Millenium Ecosystem Assessment.||Contributions to Wetlands Synthesis Report for the Ramsar Convention and Cultivated Systems Report.|
Selected IWMI publications (1998-2004)
IWMI Research Reports
1. The New Era of Water Resources Management: From "Dry" to "Wet" Water Savings
2. Alternative Approaches to Cost Sharing for Water Service to Agriculture in Egypt
3. Integrated Water Resource Systems: Theory and Policy Implications
4. Results of Management Turnover in Two Irrigation Districts in Colombia
5. The IWMI Water Balance Framework: A Model for Project Level Analysis
6. Water and Salinity Balances for Irrigated Agriculture in Pakistan
7. Free-Riders or Victims: Women's Nonparticipation in Irrigation Management in Nepal's Chhattis Mauja Irrigation Scheme
8. Institutional Design Principles for Accountability in Large Irrigation Systems
9. Satellite Remote Sensing for Assessment of Irrigation System Performance: A Case Study in India
10. A Plot of One's Own: Gender Relations and Irrigated Land Allocation Policies in Burkina Faso
11. Impacts of Irrigation Management Transfer: A Review of the Evidence
12. Water Distribution Rules and Water Distribution Performance: A Case Study in the Tambraparani Irrigation System
13. Rehabilitation Planning for Small Tanks in Cascades: A Methodology Based on Rapid Assessment
14. Water as an Economic Good: A Solution, or a Problem?
15. Impact Assessment of Irrigation Management Transfer in the Alto Rio Lerma Irrigation District, Mexico
16. Irrigation Management Transfer in Mexico: A Strategy to Achieve Irrigation District Sustainability
17. Design and Practice of Water Allocation Rules: Lessons from in Pakistan's Punjab Warabandi
18. Impact Assessment of Rehabilitation Intervention in the Gal Oya Left Bank
19. World Water Demand and Supply, 1990 to 2025: Scenarios and Issues
20. Indicators for Comparing Performance of Irrigated Agricultural Systems
21. Need for Institutional Impact Assessment in Planning Irrigation System Modernization
22. Assessing Irrigation Performance with Comparative Indicators: The Case of the Alto Rio Lerma Irrigation District, Mexico
23. Performance of Two Transferred Modules in the Lagunera Region: Water Relations
24. Farmer Response to Rationed and Uncertain Irrigation Supplies
25. Impacts of Colombia's Current Irrigation Management Transfer Program
26. Use of Historical Data as a Decision Support Tool in Watershed Management: A Case Study of the Upper Nilwala Basin in Sri Lanka
27. Remote Sensing and Hydrologic Models for Performance Assessment in Sirsa Irrigation Circle, India
28. Performance Evaluation of the Bhakra Irrigation System, India, Using Remote Sensing and GIs Techniques
29. Generic Typology for Irrigation Systems Operation
30. Mechanically Reclaiming Abandoned Saline Soils: A Numerical Evaluation
31. Gender Issues and Women's Participation in Irrigated Agriculture: The Case of Two Private Irrigation Canals in Carchi, Ecuador
32. Water Scarcity Variations within a Country: A Case Study of Sri Lanka
33. Modernization Using the Structured System Design of the Bhadra Reservoir Project, India: An Intervention Analysis
34. Assessment of Participatory Management of Irrigation Schemes in Sri Lanka: Partial Reforms, Partial Benefits
35. Modernizing Irrigation Operations: Spatially Differentiated Resource Allocations
36. Institutional Change and Shared Management of Water Resources in Large Canal Systems: Results of an Action Research Program in Pakistan
37. Farmer-Based Financing of Operations in the Niger Valley Irrigation Schemes
38. An Assessment of the Small-Scale Irrigation Management Turnover Program in Indonesia.
39. Water Scarcity and the Role of Storage in Development
40. Using Datasets from the Internet for Hydrological Modeling: An Example from the Küçük Menderes Basin, Turkey
41. Urban-Wastewater Reuse for Crop Production in the Water-Short Guanajuato River Basin, Mexico
42. Comparing Estimates of Actual Evapotranspiration from Satellites, Hydrological Models, and Field Data : A Case Study from Western Turkey
43. Integrated Basin Modeling
44. Productivity and Performance of Irrigated Wheat Farms across Canal Commands in the Lower Indus Basin
45. Pedaling out of Poverty : Social Impact of a Manual Irrigation Technology in South Asia
46. Using Remote Sensing Techniques to Evaluate Lining Efficacy of Watercourses
47. Alternate Wet/Dry Irrigation in Rice Cultivation : A Practical Way to Save Water and Control Malaria and Japanese Encephalitis
48. Predicting Water Availability in Irrigation Tank Cascade Systems : The Cascade Water Balance Model
49. Basin-Level Use and Productivity of Water : Examples from South Asia
50. Modeling Scenarios for Water Allocation in the Gediz Basin, Turkey
51. Valuing Water in Irrigated Agriculture and Reservoir Fisheries: A Multiple-Use Irrigation System in Sri Lanka
52. Charging for Irrigation Water : The Issues and Options, with a Case Study from Iran
53. Estimating Productivity of Water at Different Spatial Scales Using Simulation Modeling
54. Wells and Welfare in the Ganga Basin : Public Policy and Private Initiative in Eastern Uttar Pradesh, India
55. Water Scarcity and Managing Seasonal Water Crisis: Lessons from the Kirindi Oya Project in Sri Lanka
56. Hydronomic Zones for Developing Basin Water Conservation Strategies
57. Small Irrigation Tanks as a Source of Malaria Mosquito Vectors: A Study in North-Central Sri Lanka
58. Fundamentals of SmallHolder Irrigation: The Structured System Concept
59. A Gender Performance Indicator for Irrigation: Concepts Tools and Applications
60. Institutional Alternatives in African Smallholder Irrigation: Lessons from International Experience with Irrigation Management Transfer
61. Poverty Dimensions of Irrigation Management Transfer in Large-Scale Canal Irrigation in Andra Pradesh and Gujarat, India
62. Irrigation Sector in Sri Lanka: Recent Investment Trends and the Development Path Ahead
63. Urban Wastewater: A Valuable Resource for Agriculture A Case Study from Haroonabad, Pakistan
64. Use of Untreated Wastewater in Peri-Urban Agriculture in Pakistan: Risks and Opportunities
65. Land and Water productivity of Wheat in the Western Indo-Gangetic Plains of India and Pakistan: A Comparative Analysis.
66. Agro-wells and Pumps in Irrigation Schemes in the Dry Zone of Sri Lanka: Past Trends, Present Status and Future Prospects
67. Water Productivity in the Syr-Darya River Basin
68. Malaria and Land Use: A Spatial and Temporal Risk Analysis in Southern Sri Lanka
69. Tubewell Transfer in Gujarat: A Study of the GWRDC Approach
70. Energy-Irrigation Nexus in South Asia: Improving Groundwater Conservation and Power Sector
71. Policies Drain the North China Plain: Agricultural Policy and Groundwater Depletion in Luancheng County, 1949 - 2000
72. Development Trajectories of River Basins A Conceptual Framework
73. A Method to Identify and Evaluate the Legal and Institutional Framework for the Management of Water & Land in Asia: The Outcome of a Study in Southeast Asia and the People's Republic of China.
74. A Diagnostic Model Framework for Water Use in Rice-based Irrigation Systems.
75. Prospects for Adopting System of Rice Intensification in Sri Lanka: A Socioeconomic Assessment.
76. Small dams and social capital in Yemen: How assistance strategies affect local investment and institutions.
77. Simulating the hydrology of small coastal ecosystems in conditions of limited data.
78. Irrigation Kuznets Curve, governance and dynamics of irrigation development: A global cross-country panel analysis from 1972 to 1991. Research
79. Strategic analysis of water institutions in India: Application of a new research paradigm.
80. Robbing Yadullah's water to irrigate Saeid's garden: Hydrology and water rights in a village of central Iran.
81. Inadequacies in the water reforms in the Kyrgyz Republic: An institutional analysis.
82. Valuing nutrients in soil and water: Concepts and techniques with examples from IWMI studies in the developing world.
83. Spatial variation in water supply and demand across river basins of India.
84. An assessment of small-scale users' inclusion in large-scale water user associations of South Africa.
85. The use of remote sensing data for drought assessment and monitoring in Southwest Asia.
86. Strategies for the management of conjunctive use of surface water and groundwater resources in semi-arid areas: A case study from Pakistan.
87. Economics and politics and of water resources development: Uda Walawe Irrigation Project, Sri Lanka.
88. " Bright Spots" in Uzbekistan: reversing land and water degradation while improving livelihoods.
89. Planning for environmental water allocations: an example of hydrology-based assessment in the East Rapti River, Nepal.
90. Working wetlands: classifying wetland potential for agriculture.
91. When "conservation" leads to land degradation: lessons from Ban Lak Sip, Laos.
92. How pro-poor are participatory watershed management projects: an Indian case study.
93. Adoption and impacts of microirrigation technologies: empirical results from selected localities of Maharashtra and Gujarat states of India.
94. Balancing irrigation and hydropower: case Study from Southern Sri Lanka.
95. Irrigation and water policies in the Mekong region: current discourses and practices.
Comprehensive Assessment Research Reports
1. Research Report 1, 2003: Integrated Land and Water Management for Food and Environmental Security. F.W.T. Penning de Vries, H. Acquay, D. Molden, S.J. Scherr, C. Valentin and O. Cofie
2. Research Report 2, 2004: Taking into Account Environmental Water Requirements in Global-scale Water Resources Assessments. Vladimir Smakhtin, Carmen Revenga and Petra Döll
3. Research Report 3, 2004: Water Management in the Yellow River Basin: Background, Current Critical Issues and Future Research Needs. Mark Giordano, Zhongping Zhu, Ximing CAI, Shangqi Hong, Xuecheng Zhang and Yunpeng Xue.
4. Research Report 4, 2004: Does International Cereal Trade Save Water? The Impact of Virtual Water Trade on Global Water Use. Charlotte de Fraiture, Ximing Cai, Upali Amarasinghe, Mark Rosegrant, and David Molden
5. Research Report 5, 2004: Evolution of Irrigation in South and Southeast Asia. Randolph Barker and François Molle
6. Research Report 6, 2005: Macro Policies and Investment Priorities for Irrigated Agriculture in Vietnam. Randolph Barker, Claudia Ringler, Nguyen Minh Tien and Mark Rosegrant
7. Research Report 7, 2005: Impacts of Irrigation on Inland Fisheries: Appraisals in Laos and Sri Lanka Sophie Nguyen-Khoa, Laurence Smith and Kai Lorenzen
Current Issues of Water Policy Briefings
1. Innovations in groundwater recharge
2. Wells and welfare
3. The challenges of integrated river basin management
4. The socio-ecology of groundwater
5. Building high-performance knowledge institutions
6. Addressing the needs of poor farmers
7. Rethinking tank rehabilitation
8. Improving water productivity: how do we get more crop per drop?
9. Confronting the realities of wastewater use in agriculture
10. The energy-irrigation nexus
11. Irrigation management transfer: how to make it work for Africa's smallholders?
12. Integrating fisheries into irrigation planning and management
13. Reducing Poverty through integrated management of groundwater and surface water
Books and journal articles by science publishers
1. Water Productivity in Agriculture - Limits and Opportunities for Improvement. Jacob W. Kijne, Randolph Barker and David Molden
IWMI Working Papers
1. Modeling Water Allocation between Wetlands and Irrigated Agriculture: Case Study of the Gediz Basin, Turkey
2. Developing a Hydrological Model for the Mekong Basins Impacts of Basin development in Fisheries Productivity
3. Olifants River Irrigation Schemes - Reports 1 & 2
4. Irrigation Management in Pakistan and India: Comparing Notes on Institutions and Policies
5. A Framework for Institutional Analysis for Water Resources Management in a River Basin Context
6. Irrigation, Health and Environment - A Review of Literature from Turkey
7. Elixir or Opiate? - An Assessment of Minor Irrigation Policies in North Bengal
8. An Assessment of Female Participation in Minor Irrigation Systems of Sri Lanka
9. Water Distribution Equity in Sindh Province, Pakistan
10. Gender and Irrigation in India - The Women's Irrigation Group of Jambar, South Gujarat
11. Gender in Lift Irrigation Schemes in East Gujarat, India
12. Achieving stable Canal Conditions Following Remodeling : The Case Study of Bareji Distributary, Mirpurkhas
13. Remodeling of Outlets in Three Pilot Distributaries Under the Farmer Managed Irrigation Project in Sindh Province, Pakistan
14. Spatial variation in Land and Water Productivity Across Punjab Canal Commands
15. Women Irrigators and Leaders in the West Gandak Scheme, Nepal
16. Capacity Building for Participatory Irrigation Management in Sindh Province of Pakistan
17. Hydro-Institutional Mapping in the Steelpoort River Basin.
18. Policies, Legislation and Organizations Related to Water in South Africa, with Special Reference to the Olifants River Basin
19. Empowerment Of Farmer Organizations : The Case Of the Farmer Managed Irrigated Agriculture Project, Sind Province Pakistan
20. Estimating the Potential of Rainfed Agriculture - Draft discussion paper
21. Malaria Risk Mapping in Sri Lanka - Results from the Uda Walawe Area
22. Crop Growth and Soil Water Balance Modeling to Explore Water Management options
23. Analysis of Hydro-meteorological time series, searching Evidence for Climatic change in the Upper Indus Basin
24. Spatial distribution of Reference and Potential Evapotranspiration Across the Indus Basin Irrigation Irrigation Systems
25. Childhood Diarrhea and Hygiene : Mothers' Perception and Practices in the Punjab, Pakistan
26. A Framework for Analysing Socioeconomic, Health and Environmental Impacts of Wastewater Use in Agriculture in Developing Countries
27. Ruhuna Benchmark Basin Activities - Proceedings of the Inaugural Meeting held at Peacock Beach Hotel, Hambantota, Sri Lanka, 15 June 2001.
28. Institutional Arrangements for Land Drainage in Developing Countries
29. Malaria Risk Mapping in Sri Lanka - Implications for its Use in Control
30. Wastewater Reuse in Agriculture in Vietnam : Water Management, Environment and Human Health Aspects
31. Assessment of Performance and Impact of Irrigation and Water Resources Systems in Taiwan and Sri Lanka
32. Water for Rural Development : Background Paper on Water for Rural Development Prepared for the World Bank
33. Farmers' Perceptions of the Social Mobilization of Water User Organizations in the Sindh, Pakistan
34. Proposed Business Plan for Pilot Farmer Organizations
35. Root Zone Salinity Management Using Fractional Skimming Wells with Pressurized Irrigation: Inception Report
36. Global Irrigated Area Mapping : Overview and Recommendations
37. Wastewater use in Agriculture : Review of Impacts and Methodological Issues in Valuing Impacts
38. Do Equal Land and Water Rights Benefit the Poor? Targeted Irrigation Development: The Case of the Andhi Khola Irrigation Scheme in Nepal
39. Irrigation Impacts on Income Inequality and Poverty Alleviation : Policy Issues and Options for Improved Management of Irrigation Systems
40. Farmers' Skimming Well Technologies: Practices, Problems, Perceptions and Prospects
41. Integrated Development and Management of Water Resources for Productive and Equitable Use in the Indrawati River Basin, Nepal
42. Environmental Water Needs and Impacts of Irrigated Agriculture in River Basins : A Framework for a New Research Program
43. Accounting of Agricultural and Nonagricultural Impacts of Irrigation and Drainage Systems: A Study of Multifunctionality in Rice
44. Simulating Impacts of Irrigation on the Hydrology of the Karagan Lagoon in Sri Lanka
45. Pesticides: Health Impacts and Alternatives Proceedings of a Workshop Held in Colombo 24 January 2002
46. Linkages between Irrigation and Drinking Water in Pakistan
47. Malaria in Irrigated Agriculture
48. Conjunctive Water Management in the Rechna Doab: An Overview of Resources and Issues
49. Water Resources Management in Afghanistan: The Issues and Options
50. Institutional Constraints to Conjunctive Water Management in the Rechna Doab
53. Integrated Database Development for River Basin Management: An Example from Rechna Doab
54. Growing More Rice with Less Water: Increasing Water productivity in Rice-Based Cropping Systems
55. Innovative Approaches Agricultural Water Use for Improving Food Security in Sub-Saharan Africa
56. Strategies for Conserving Water and Effecting Mosquito Vector Control in Rice Ecosystems: A Case Study from Tamil Nadu, India
57. Yellow River Comprehensive Assessment, Basin Features and Issues
58. Developing Effective Institutions for Water Resources Management: A Case Study in the Deduru Oya Basin, Sri Lanka
59. Multi-Level Participatory Consultive Approach for Institutional Change in River Basins: Lessons from the Deduru Oya Case Study
60. Food Security and Sustainable Agriculture in India: The Water Management Challenge
61. Anicut Systems in Sri Lanka : The Case of Upper Walawe River Basin
62. Rethinking Tanks: Opportunities for Revitalising Irrigation Tanks - Empirical Findings from Ananthapur District, Andhra Pradesh, India
63. Biodiversity Associated with the Rice Field Agro-ecosystem in Asian Countries: A Brief Review
64. The Groundwater Economy of Pakistan
65. Growing More Rice with Less Water: Increasing Water Productivity in Rice-Based Cropping Systems
66. Improving Agricultural Productivity for Poverty Alleviation through Integrated Service Provision with Public-Private Sector Partnerships: Examples and Issues
68. Accounting of Agricultural and Nonagricultural Impacts of Irrigation and Drainage Systems
69. Institutional Changes to Reduce Land Preparation Delay in the North Central Province of Sri Lanka
70. Gender Roles and Multiple Uses of Water in North Gujarat
71. Formal Water Rights in Rural Tanzania: Deepening the Dichotomy?
72. The Transformation of Irrigation Boards into Water User Associations in South Africa: Case Studies of the Lower Olifants, Great Letaba and Vaalharts Water User Associations Volume 1
73. The Transformation of Irrigation Boards into Water User Associations in South Africa: Case Studies of the Umlaas, Komati, Lomati and Hereford Irrigation Boards Volume 2
74. Possible Impacts of the Transformation of Water Infrastructure on Productive Water Uses: The Case of the Seokodibeng Village in South Africa
75. The River Basin Game: A Water Dialogue Tool
76. Hydrology and water resources development in the Olifants River Catchment
77. Institutions for Integrated Water-Resources Management in River Basins: A Synthesis of IWMI Research
78. Institutions for Integrated Water-Resources Management in River Basins: An Analytical Framework
79. Institutional Analysis of Integrated Water Resources Management in River Basins: A Methodology Paper
80. Institutional/Legal Classification, MSEC Project Sites in Thailand and Lao PDR
81. Institutions for Integrated Water Resources Management in Upland Watersheds of Southeast Asia: A Comparative Analysis of Thailand and Lao PDR
83. Review, Automated Estimation and Analyses of Drought Indices in South Asia
84. Review and Analysis of Drought Monitoring, Declaration and Management in India
85. Drought Mitigation in Pakistan: Current Status and Options for Future Strategies
86. Analysis of Drought Coping Strategies in Baluchistan and Sindh Provinces of Pakistan
87. Livelihoods and Gender Roles in Drip-Irrigation Technology: A Case of Nepal
88. Biophysical and Institutional Factors in Watershed Management
89. Adaptive, Participatory and Integrated Assessment (APIA) of the Impacts of Irrigation on Fisheries. Evaluation of the Approach in Sri Lanka
90. An Evaluation of Proposed World Water Programme Indicators for Use in South Africa
91. Drought Impacts and Potential for Their Mitigation in Southern and Western Afghanistan
92. Small Tank Cascade Systems in the Walawe River Basin
93. State Level Analysis of Drought Policies and Impacts in Rajasthan, India
94. Centre Commissioned External Review (CCER) of the IWMI-TATA Water Policy Research Program
95. Current Policy and Status of DDT Use for Malaria Control in Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya and South Africa
Comprehensive Assessment Working Papers
1. Working Paper 3 - Comprehensive Global Assessment of Costs, Benefits and Future Directions of Irrigated Agriculture: A proposed Methodology to Carry out a Definitive and Authoritative Analysis of Performance, Impacts and Costs of Irrigated Agriculture by K. Strzepek, D.Molden, H. Galbraith
2. Working Paper 32 - Water for Rural Development Water for Rural Development, Background Paper on Water for Rural Development prepared for the World Bank - David Molden, Upali Amarasinghe and Intizar Hussain
3. Working Paper 36 - Global Irrigated Area Mapping. by Peter Droogers
4. The Closure of the Chao Phraya River Basin in Thailand: Its Causes, Consequences and Policy Implications by François Molle
5. Perspectives on Asian Irrigation by Randolph Barker and François Molle
6. The Intricacies of Water Pricing in the Red River Delta, Vietnam by Jean-Philippe Fontenelle and François Molle
7. To price or not to price? Thailand and the stigma of "free water" by François Molle
8. Comprehensive Assessment of Socio-Economic Impacts of Agricultural Water Uses: Concepts, Approaches and Analytical Tools. Intizar Hussain and Madhusudan Bhattarai
9. Working Paper 43 - Accounting of Agricultural and Nonagricultural Impacts of Irrigation and Drainage Systems: A Study of Multifunctionality in Rice -by Y, Matsuno, H.S. Ko, C.H. Tan, R. Barker and G. Levine
10. Working Paper 55 - Innovative approaches to agricultural water use for improving food security in Sub-Sahara Africa by A. Inocencio, H. Sally and D.J. Merrey
11. Biodiversity associated with the rice field agro-ecosystem in Asian countries: a brief review by Channa N.B. Bambaradeniya and Felix P. Amerasinghe
12. Irrigation Impact on Agricultural Growth and Poverty Alleviation: Macro Level Impact Analyses in India by Madhusudan Bhattarai and A. Narayanamoorthy
13. Irrigation and other Factors Contribution to the Agricultural Growth and Development in India: A Cross-State Panel Data Analysis for 1970 to 94 by Madhusudan Bhattarai and A. Narayanamoorthy
14. Working Paper 57 - Yellow River Comprehensive Assessment; Basin Features and Issues Collaborative Research between IWMI and YRCC by Zhongping Zhu, Mark Giordano, Ximing Cai, David Molden, Hong Shangchi, Zhang Huiyan, Lian Yu, Li Huian, Zhang Xuecheng, Zhang Xinghai, Xue Yunpeng
15. Irrigation and other Factors Contribution to the Agricultural Growth and Development in India: A Cross-State Panel Data Analysis for 1970 to 94. Madhusudan Bhattarai and A. Narayanamoorthy.
1. Serie Latinoamericana; Investigación sobre agua y suelo; en México, Argentina, Colombia, Ecuador, Perú, y Venezuela; 1995-2000. IWMI CD-ROM publication.
2. Reducción de la sobreexplotación del agua subterránea mediante políticas para la energía agrícola: aprendizajes de la India y México. Christopher A. Scott. IWMI pamphlet.
3. Efectos de las plantas de tratamiento sobre los beneficios del riego con aguas residuales: nuevo examen de un estudion de caso en la cuenca del río Guanajuato, México. Paula Silva Ochoa y Christopher A. Scott. IWMI pamphlet.
4. Las mujeres al timón de la agricultura de riego en México. La otra cara de la emigración masculina. Stephanie Buechler. IWMI pamphlet.
5. El cierre de una cuenca hidrográfica y el cambio institucional en la cuenca Lerma-Chapala en México. Philippus Wester, Christopher A. Scott y Martin Burton. IWMI pamphlet.
6. A comparative study of modern irrigation water systems and rural poverty in the Limarí Basin, Chile and the Tunuyán Basin, Argentina: institutional and socio-economic aspects. Santiago de Chile, January 2005. Alejandro León, Facultad de Ciencias Agronómicas, Universidad de Chile, Santiago.
Selected M.Sc. and Ph.D. theses and ongoing projects
Boelee, E. 1999. Irrigation ecology of schistosomiasis: Environmental control options in Morocco. Ph.D. thesis, Wageningen University, Wageningen, Netherlands. 200p.
Piyankarage, S. C. 2002. Assessment of drainage water quality from the Kirindi Oya and the Badagiriya Irrigation Schemes and estimation of nitrogen and phosphorus loading to the Bundala wetland. M.Sc. thesis, University of Kelaniya, Kelaniya, Sri Lanka. xii, 123p.
Jinendradasa, S. 2004. Selected ecological processes and bleaching induced alterations in Acropora formosa dominated shallow reefs of South West Sri Lanka. Ph.D. thesis, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka. xxi, 356p. + annexes.
Muthuwatta, L. P. 2004. Long term rainfall-runoff-lake level modelling of the Lake Naivasha Basin, Kenya. M.Sc. thesis, International Institute for Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation, Enschede, Netherlands. 71p.
Ph.D. Scholarship Program
Ms. Mini G. (India)
Institute of Social & Economic Change, Bangalore, India
Water users' associations and irrigation management with special reference to environmental problems
Mr. Jeroen Ensink (Netherlands)
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK
Research activities of the IWMI Water, Health and Environment Program implemented in the Haku 6R Area, Pakistan
Ms. Sonali Senaratna (Sri Lanka)
Imperial College of London, UK
Factors Influencing the Sustainability of Natural Resource Use and Management of Coastal Wetland Systems in Sri Lanka.
Mr. Japhet Kashaigili (Tanzania)
University of Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania
Assessment of Hydrological and Production Roles of Wetlands and Swamps in the Usangu Wetlands.
Ms. Eveline Klinkenberg (Netherlands)
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK
Impact of urban agriculture on malaria transmission in Ghana.
Mr. Ashok Regmi (Nepal)
Indiana University, USA
The Role of Heterogeneity in Collective Action: A Look at the Inter Tie between Irrigation and Forests.
Mr. W.J. Ntow (Ghana)
Health and environmental implications of pesticide use in informal and formal vegetable irrigation in Ghana.
Mr. Olivier Briët (Netherlands)
Swiss Tropical Institute, University of Basel, Switzerland
Environmental Risk Factors for Malaria.
Ms. Jeniffer Kinoti (Kenya)
Watershed planning of system-innovations: Spatial mapping of environmental and hydrological determinants. A case study of Pangani River Basin, Tanzania.
Mr. S. C. Piyankarage (Sri Lanka)
University of Illinois, USA
Simulating Hydrologic Reference Conditions of Coastal Lagoons Affected by Irrigation Flows in Southern Sri Lanka.
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