irrigation; sustainability, The inclusion of farmers in the decision-making process of management of irrigation systems is now accepted as necessary to increase productivity and income among the poor in the Third World. Hence, farmer participation is not simply a call for empowerment and mobilization of a hitherto powerless group, but, more fundamentally, a development strategy. The author evaluates the experience of participatory management in Sri Lanka and arrives at general conclusions, taking into account the size and complexity of the irrigation system, objectives, and capacity of agencies and farmers for participatory management as key aspects in a sustainable development strategy. (original)
Williams, Nancy (author), Woods, Mike (author), and Woods: Extension Economist and Associate Professor, Oklahoma State University; Williams: Extension Assistant, Oklahoma State University
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
1991-10
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 89 Document Number: C06143
Notes:
James F. Evans Collection, Mississippi State, MS : South Rural Development Center, 1991. 92 p. (SRDC Publication No. 150)
Joint Economic Committee, United States Congress (author)
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
1991
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 92 Document Number: C06858
Notes:
AGRICOLA CAT 92961000; Contains Table of contents only, Washington [D.C.] : U.S. G.P.O. : For sale by the U.S. G.P.O., Supt. of Docs., Congressional Sales Office, 1991. iii, 41 p. : ill. (United States. Congress. Senate. S. hrg. , 102-160.)
