Prelims - Negotiating Water Rights

Bruns, Bryan; Meinzen-Dick, Ruth Suseela

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“…A major challenge in formalizing water rights is to include traditional (often small) systems and to avoid disenfranchising established small-scale water users (Bruns and Meinzen-Dick, 2000).…”

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Key and Smart Actions to Alleviate Hunger and Poverty Through Irrigation and Drainage

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Wahaj²,

Lorenzon³

et al. 2018

Irrigation and Drainage

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In the pursuit of information to support policies and actions to alleviate hunger and poverty through irrigation and drainage, this paper attempts to provide correlations between water scarcity, communities and poverty. Many reviews have found strong direct and indirect relationships between irrigation and poverty. One of the main goals of the international community is to eliminate hunger and poverty and in this perspective, through the Millennium Development Goals, much progress has been achieved and evidence obtained. Sustainable Development Goals and various other United Nations initiatives intend to move forward this agenda by making it a part of broader development frameworks. In this paper, the important elements of irrigation and drainage that affect the alleviation of hunger and poverty are discussed. These elements are grouped into governance, rights-based developments, water rights and pricing, management, efficiency improvement, and the role of technology. Both the potential and the need for innovative technology and solutions in irrigation are underlined, which can be used to cater for the challenges in different subsectors. The main focus of these solutions is on maximizing productivity and efficiency, reducing water losses, achieving sustainable intensification and managing demands on water resources and the associated trade-offs. Copyright © 2018 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.key words: irrigation and drainage management; water management to alleviate hunger and poverty; irrigation modernization; water scarcity; poverty and hunger sur la réduction de la faim et de la pauvreté. Ces éléments sont regroupés dans la gouvernance, le développement basé sur les droits, les droits de l'eau et la tarification, la gestion, l'amélioration de l'efficacité, et le rôle de la technologie. Le potentiel ainsi que la nécessité de faire usage de la technologie et des solutions d'irrigation innovantes sont soulignés, et être utilisé pour relever les défis des différents sous-secteurs. L'objectif principal de ces solutions est la maximisation de la productivité et de l'efficacité, la réduction des pertes d'eau, la réalisation de l'intensification durable et la gestion des demandes en ressources en eau et les compromis associés.

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Section: Sectormentioning

confidence: 99%

Key and Smart Actions to Alleviate Hunger and Poverty Through Irrigation and Drainage

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Wahaj²,

Lorenzon³

et al. 2018

Irrigation and Drainage

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“…Ainsi, dans le domaine de l'eau, les arguments néolibéraux coïncident avec les démarches empiriques des tenants du bien commun. Elinor Ostrom laisse d'ailleurs le champ de l'irrigation à ses collègues (par exemple, Meizen-Dick et al, 1994 ;Bruns et Meizen-Dick, 2000 ;Trawick, 2001 ;Schlager, 2002) -pour traiter plus spécifiquement l'exploitation des forêts tropicales, sans véritablement chercher à entrer dans les controverses qui caractérisent la dernière décennie du XX e siècle et la première décennie du XXI e siècle.…”

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Dossier « Le champ descommonsen question : perspectives croisées » - Le façonnage des institutions d’irrigation au XX^esiècle, selon les principes d’Elinor Ostrom, est-il encore pertinent en 2010 ?

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2011

Nat. Sci. Soc.

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Résumé -Au cours des années 1980, la théorie du despotisme oriental de Wittfogel était toujours en vogue pour expliquer le développement hydraulique. Dans ces mêmes années, sous l'influence des néolibéraux, l'idée émerge de cesser les lourdes planifications des systèmes hydrauliques et de faire de l'eau une marchandise. Le point symbolique de cette rupture se situe à la conférence sur l'eau à Dublin en 1992. Or, cette même année, Elinor Ostrom part à contre-courant des théories dominantes sur le développement de l'irrigation. Pour montrer l'apport et les limites d'Ostrom, nous avons étudié et comparé les principes qui fondent les trois théories de l'organisation sociale, économique et politique de l'irrigation. Dans ce face-à-face triangulaire, Ostrom donne des clés utiles à l'analyse des conflits actuels au XXI e siècle. De ce foisonnement théorique, une pratique de recherche-action est possible pour résoudre les conflits actuels sur les ressources en eau. Keywords:water; irrigation; institution; rural societies; commons; State; privatisation Abstract -Is the crafting of self-governing irrigation institutions in the XXth century following Elinor Ostrom's principles still relevant in 2010? In the 1980s, Wittfogel's theory of Oriental despotism continued to provide a popular explanation for hydraulic development. In these same years, under influence of neoliberalism, there emerged the idea to put a halt to heavy planning of hydraulic systems and make water into a market commodity. The 1992 Dublin Conference on Water and the Environment is the symbolic moment of this turnabout. In the same year, however, Elinor Ostrom took an alternative stance to the prevailing theories on the development of irrigation. To highlight Ostrom's contribution and its limits, we studied and compared the principles which underlie the three theories of the social, economic and political organisation of irrigation. In this triangular confrontation, Ostrom contributes several useful keys to analyze on-going conflicts in the 21st century. Out of this theoretical profusion, there can emerge a practice of action-research to solve current conflicts on water resources.

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“…Academic understanding of community-based water law has grown significantly during the past decades (cf. Von BendaBeckmann, 1991;Shah, 1993;Ostrom, 1994;Yoder, 1994;Ramazzotti, 1996;Boelens and Dávila, 1998;Bruns and Meinzen-Dick, 2000). While the focus in this research was previously on irrigation of field crops, the scope has increasingly widened to include homestead gardening, domestic uses, livestock watering, silviculture, fisheries and even the integrated use of multiple sources for multiple purposes (Bakker et al, 1999;Moriarty et al, 2004;Van Koppen et al, 2006).…”

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Community-based water law and water resource management reform in developing countries: rationale, contents and key messages.

Koppen¹,

Giordano²,

Butterworth³

et al. 2007

Community-Based Water Law and Water Resource Management Reform in Developing Countries

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Water resources management reform in developing countries has tended to overlook community-based water laws, which govern self-help water development and management by large proportions, if not the majority, of citizens: rural, small-scale water users, including poor women and men. In an attempt to fill this gap, global experts on community-based water law and its interface with public sector intervention present a varied collection of empirical research findings in this volume. The present chapter introduces the rationale for the volume and its contents. It further identifies key messages emerging from the chapters on, first, the strengths and weaknesses of community-based water law and, second, the impact of water resources management reform on informal water users' access to water and its beneficial uses.Impacts vary from outright weakening of community-based arrangements and poverty aggravation or missing significant opportunities to better water resource management and improved well-being, also among poor women and men. The latter interventions combine the strengths of community-based water law with the strengths of the public sector. Together, these messages contribute to a new vision on the role of the state in water resources management that better matches the needs and potentials of water users in the informal water economies in developing countries.

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Prelims - Negotiating Water Rights

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Key and Smart Actions to Alleviate Hunger and Poverty Through Irrigation and Drainage

Key and Smart Actions to Alleviate Hunger and Poverty Through Irrigation and Drainage

Dossier « Le champ descommonsen question : perspectives croisées » - Le façonnage des institutions d’irrigation au XX^esiècle, selon les principes d’Elinor Ostrom, est-il encore pertinent en 2010 ?

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Community-based water law and water resource management reform in developing countries: rationale, contents and key messages.

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