and ensuring the nation's food security. The government has undertaken considerable investments in irrigation and water … maintains the hydraulic infrastructure, but farmers have to contribute to funding and managing the irrigation systems. In this …

This paper reviews the boundary concepts that have emerged in interdisciplinary irrigation studies in South Asia …, particularly India. The focus is concepts that capture the hybridity of irrigation systems as complex systems, and cross the … irrigation. On the side of formal theory a focus on a combination the emerging concept of hydrosocial cycle with structure …

project is the first new large ]scale irrigation scheme in the river basin since the 1970s. The article analyzes the social …

farm mechanization, micro irrigation, digital technology driven farm and crop management, financial services, energy …

Large-scale, government-managed canal irrigation represents the technocratic approach to water development. Large …-scale irrigation faces many problems but they have been relegated to the periphery in the water debate generally and about large dams … of large canal irrigation in India. The debates imply implication for institutions, science and technology and …

Since irrigation development in northern Ghana has started, the natural resources water and land within irrigation … an irrigation bureaucracy that is supposed to ensure a sustainable and efficient use of these resources. However, the … irrigation bureaucracy does not operate in a vacuum. The irrigation bureaucracy's control over land is contested and land use …

groundwater irrigation (SGI) capacities of their home region for vegetable gardening. This development has helped a great deal to …

. It comprises a large-scale irrigation system which conveys water from the river Amudarya to agricultural land cropped …

The diversity of small ]scale irrigation on the Fogera plains, in the Ethiopian Blue Nile river basin, includes small … change. The diversity of irrigation infrastructure is partly a consequence of the topographic heterogeneity of the plains, as … critical evaluation, especially as small scale irrigation is managed by beneficiaries; a policy paradigm just starting to be …