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.
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