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 boundaries of the natural and social sciences. Concepts...

The objective of this paper is to map the 'politics of water' as a field of research. Such mapping logically has two parts. The first is an explanation of what is meant by politics and what could be the overall conceptual approach for analysing the politics of water - the formal part of the...

In 2008, the research project on Sustainable Management of Land and Water Resources in Khorezm/Uzbekistan at the Center for Development Research, Germany initiated a participatory approach to innovation development and diffusion with local stakeholders. Selected agricultural innovations,...