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LOCATING THE POOR: SPATIALLY DISAGGREGATED POVERTY MAPS
FOR SRI LANKA
Over the years, although many poverty alleviation programs have
been launched in Sri Lanka, the effectiveness of these interventions
is questioned because of shortcomings in identifying and locating
the poor. This report discusses an effort to analyze in detail
the spatial patterns of poverty with the aid of finer-resolution
poverty maps and demonstrates the potential use of poverty maps
in policy interventions in poverty-alleviation programs.
ECONOMICS AND POLITICS OF WATER RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT:
UDA WALAWE IRRIGATION PROJECT, SRI LANKA
The Uda Walawe Irrigation and Resettlement Project (UWIRP) located in the Southern
dry zone of Sri Lanka was initiated in the early 1950s. The original plan for
the UWIRP was a highly ambitious social, economic and physical engineering project
aimed at creating a modern, profitable agriculture sector. This report examines
the history of water resources development and investment decisions for the UWIRP
over a period of 50 years, uncovers underlying processes that shaped the evolution
of the project and highlights the limitation of viewing development as a mere
set of technical and social engineering endeavors.
THE USE OF REMOTE SENSING DATA FOR DROUGHT ASSESSMENT
AND
MONITORING IN SOUTHWEST ASIA
South Asian countries have limited institutional and technical capacity
to prepare for a drought and to mitigate its impacts. Information
on drought onset and development is not readily available to responsible
agencies and to the general public. This report describes the first
results of the development of the near-real-time drought-monitoring
and reporting system for the region, which includes Afghanistan, Pakistan and
western parts of India. The system is based on drought-related indices derived
from high-resolution remote-sensing data (MODIS). The goal is to make the system
available, via Internet, to all stakeholders in the region.
ROBBING YADULLAH'S WATER TO IRRIGATE SAEID'S GARDEN:
HYDROLOGY
AND WATER RIGHTS IN A VILLAGE OF CENTRAL IRAN
When pressure over water resources increases in a river basin,
these resources tend to
become fully committed, with little or no outflow at the most downstream point
in the basin, at least during some part of the year when river basins are said
to “close.” In such conditions, any
decision to further tap existing water at a given point of the hydrological cycle
of the basin is almost certain to impact on water users and/or on the environment.
This study from the province of Esfahan, in central Iran illustrates how land
and water rights have developed, how various legal repertoires may conflict with
one another, how State intervention transformed the wider hydrological cycle
of the valley and affected the delicate equilibrium between people and natural
resources and, not least, how farmers use their ingenuity in their quest for
water.
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