The Irrigation Management Network represents a world-wide network of researchers and administrators interested in the issues of irrigation management and irrigation schemes. This series of papers covers 1983–1985. 

Articles featured in these issues include:

• Land tenure in irrigation planning: two examples
• Irrigation systems – alternative design concepts
• One season of 'integrated water management' in Andhra Pradesh
• Non-agricultural uses of irrigation systems: past experience and implications for planning and design
• Using indigenous skills and institutions in small-scale irrigation: an example from Senegal
• Assistance needs of water user associations in their first years – the example of Pochampad
• The role of farmers in decision making on irrigation systems
• Alternative design concepts for irrigation systems
• Evaluation of irrigation design – a debate
• Farmers' associations – making them effective or making them unnecessary
• World bank irrigation experience
• Assisting villagers to build their own irrigation scheme – an example from Thailand
• Benefits and problems with unconventional design
• Groundwater development in Bangladesh – farmer organisation and choice of irrigation technology
• Developing the role of farmers associations in Sri Lanka and northern Thailand
• Designing for easy maintenance
• Tank irrigation in India and Thailand: problems and prospects
• Introduction to discussion on water rates
• The management of pad! Irrigation systems – a debate
• Improved irrigation management why involve farmers?
• Transforming ground water markets into powerful instruments of small farmer development: lessons from the Punjab, Utter Pradesh and Gujarat
• Cost recovery and tariffs: a discussion
• Institution development issues in rural projects
• Identification and utilization of farmer resources in irrigation development: a guide for rapid appraisal
• Institutional aspects of operation and maintenance for irrigated paddy production in Korea
• An application of spreadsheet software to water management.