We examine factors affecting the success and failure of collective action toward the management of local commons. Using cross-section survey data on the activities of irrigators' associations in the Philippines, regression analysis is conducted to identify factors underlying the success and...

The introduction of new rice technology in the irrigated lowland areas of the Province of Laguna has induced labor migration from non-irrigated upland areas. Labor migration to the lowland areas has been associated with a major change in labor contracts ...

In this paper, we seek a possible route for accelerating the agricultural growth in tropical monsoon Asia in the face of increasing population pressure on limited land resources. According to a postulate of classical economists like Ricardo [18], population pressure on limited land resources...

Using data for the Philippines and Sri Lanka during the last five decades, we examine three phases of agricultural development experienced by the rice sector in insular countries in tropical monsoon Asia; the first was based on land opening, the second on new irrigation construction and the third...