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Taming the Anarchy

Groundwater Governance in South Asia

By: Tushaar Shah

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Taming the Anarchy

Groundwater Governance in South Asia

By: Tushaar Shah

In 1947, British India-the part of South Asia that is today's India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh-emerged from the colonial era with the world's largest centrally managed canal irrigation infrastructure. However, as vividly illustrated by Tushaar Shah, the orderly irrigation economy that saved millions of rural poor from droughts and famines is now a vast atomistic system of widely dispersed tube-wells that are drawing groundwater without permits or hindrances. Taming the Anarchy is about the development of this chaos and the prospects to bring it under control. It is about both the massive benefit that the irrigation economy has created and the ill-fare it threatens through depleted aquifers and pollution. Tushaar Shah brings exceptional insight into a socio-ecological phenomenon that has befuddled scientists and policymakers alike. In systematic fashion, he investigates the forces behind the transformation of South Asian irrigation and considers its social, economic, and ecological impacts. He considers what is unique to South Asia and what is in common with other developing regions. He argues that, without effective governance, the resulting groundwater stress threatens the sustenance of the agrarian system and therefore the well being of the nearly one and a half billion people who live in South Asia. Yet, finding solutions is a formidable challenge. The way forward in the short run, Shah suggests, lies in indirect, adaptive strategies that change the conduct of water users. From antiquity until the 1960‘s, agricultural water management in South Asia was predominantly the affair of village communities and/or the state. Today, the region depends on irrigation from some 25 million individually owned groundwater wells. Tushaar Shah provides a fascinating economic, political, and cultural history of the development and use of technology that is also a history of a society in transition. His book provides powerful ideas and lessons for researchers, historians, and policy

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Taming the Anarchy

Groundwater Governance in South Asia

By: Tushaar Shah

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Groundwater Governance in South Asia

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Energy-irrigation Nexus in South Asia

Improving Groundwater Conservation and Power Sector Viability

By: Tushaar Shah

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Energy-irrigation Nexus in South Asia

Improving Groundwater Conservation and Power Sector Viability

By: Tushaar Shah

Water use efficiency; groundwater irrigation; tubewells; sustainability; irrigated farming; households; farmers; irrigation systems; energy consumption; pumps; food security; water demend; electricity supplies.

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9290905182

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Pedaling Out of Poverty

Social Impact of a Manual Irrigation Technology in South Asia

By: Tushaar Shah,Alam, M,Kumar, M. D,Nagar, R. K.,Singh, M.

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Pedaling Out of Poverty

Social Impact of a Manual Irrigation Technology in South Asia

By: Tushaar Shah,Alam, M,Kumar, M. D,Nagar, R. K.,Singh, M.

Study on the assessment of social impact of treadle pump technology for manual irrigation in South Asia.

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9290904216

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9789290904212

Institutional Alternatives in African Smallholder Irrigation

Lessons from International Experience with Irrigation Management Transfer

By: Tushaar Shah,Barbara van Koppen,Douglas Merrey Marna de Lange and, Madar Samad

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Institutional Alternatives in African Smallholder Irrigation

Lessons from International Experience with Irrigation Management Transfer

By: Tushaar Shah,Barbara van Koppen,Douglas Merrey Marna de Lange and, Madar Samad

This report reviews several decades of global experience in transferring management of government-run irrigation systems to farmer associations or other nongovernmental agencies in an attempt to apply the lessons of success to the African smallholder irrigation context.

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929090481X

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Irrigation Management in Pakistan and India

Comparing Notes on Institutions and Policies

By: Tushaar Shah,Intizar Hussain,Saeed ur Rehman

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Irrigation Management in Pakistan and India

Comparing Notes on Institutions and Policies

By: Tushaar Shah,Intizar Hussain,Saeed ur Rehman

These notes present the impressions gathered by a team of Indian and Pakistani economists on contemporary issues in irrigation management in these two countries. The authors suggest that the two countries can learn important lessons by comparing notes on several issues: [a] what would work best in ensuring equitable access to irrigation - physical rehabilitation being tried out in Pakistan Punjab with the help of the army under the military rule offers interesting possibilities in terms of scale and impact as does the Andhra Pradesh model of irrigation reform, [b] the experience in both countries so far defies the uncritically accepted premise that under farmer-management, irrigation systems will be more equitable, [c] why farmers in Pakistan Punjab have to use 16-20 horsepower (hp) diesel engines to pump groundwater from 25-40 feet while north Indian farmers have been doing the same with 5 hp engines--if it is because of compulsion of habit, appropriate policies can save Pakistan substantial diesel fuel per year, [d] India needs to ask why diesel engines in Lahore cost only 40-50 percent of the retail price they command in Lucknow or Ludhiana--we suggest allowing free imports of Chinese pumps will do away with the need for pump subsidies that keep diesel engines over-priced in India, [e] both Pakistan and India need to pay serious attention to promoting simple pump modifications that can increase fuel efficiency of their pumps by 40-70 percent, [f] India and Pakistan need to compare notes on their rich experience of electricity pricing policies to achieve viability of electricity supply to farmers and to achieve important goals of groundwater management and policy.

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9290904267

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Wells and Welfare in the Ganga Basin

Public Policy and Private Initiative in Eastern Uttar Pradesh, India

By: Tushaar Shah

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Wells and Welfare in the Ganga Basin

Public Policy and Private Initiative in Eastern Uttar Pradesh, India

By: Tushaar Shah

This report analyzes the history of groundwater development in the eastern Uttar Pradesh region over the 1950-1990 period. Its main conclusion is that the story of groundwater-based livelihood creation in the Ganga basin is one of failed public initiatives and successful adaptive responses by private agents. However, tube-well-induced agrarian dynamism in eastern Uttar Pradesh and north Bihar in recent years can spread to the entire basin if public policy makers learn correct lessons from the experience of these two subregions.

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9290904461

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Changing consumption patterns: Implications on food and water demand in India

By: Amarasinghe, Upali A., Shah, Tushaar, Singh, Om Prakash

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Changing consumption patterns: Implications on food and water demand in India

By: Amarasinghe, Upali A., Shah, Tushaar, Singh, Om Prakash

Increasing income and urbanization are triggering a rapid change in food consumption patterns in India. This report assesses India’s changing food consumption patterns and their implications on future food and water demand. According to the projections made in this study, the total calorie supply would continue to increase, but the dominance of food grains in the consumption basket is likely to decrease by 2050, and the consumption of non-grain crops and animal products would increase to provide a major part of the daily calorie supply. Although the total food grain demand will decrease, the total grain demand is likely to increase with the increasing feed demand for the livestock. The implications of the changing consumption patterns are assessed through consumptive water use (CWU) under the assumptions of full or partial food self-sufficiency.

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9290906774

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India's water future to 2025-2050: business-as-usual scenario and deviations

By: Amarasinghe, Upali, Shah, Tushaar, Turral, Hugh, Anand, B. K.

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India's water future to 2025-2050: business-as-usual scenario and deviations

By: Amarasinghe, Upali, Shah, Tushaar, Turral, Hugh, Anand, B. K.

With a rapidly expanding economy many changes are taking place in India today. The business-as-usual (BAU) scenario, which assumes the continuation of current trends of key water demand drivers, will meet the future food demand. However, it leads to a severe regional water crisis by 2050, where many river basins will reach closure, will be physically water-scarce and will have regions with severely overexploited groundwater resources. While the alternative scenarios of water demand show both optimistic and pessimistic water futures, the scenario with additional productivity growth is the most optimistic, with significant scope for reducing future water demand.

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Changing consumption patterns: Implications on food and water demand in India

By: Amarasinghe, Upali A., Shah, Tushaar, Singh, Om Prakash

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Energy-irrigation Nexus in South Asia

Improving Groundwater Conservation and Power Sector Viability

By: Tushaar Shah

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Improving Groundwater Conservation and Power Sector Viability

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Wells and Welfare in the Ganga Basin

Public Policy and Private Initiative in Eastern Uttar Pradesh, India

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Public Policy and Private Initiative in Eastern Uttar Pradesh, India

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India's water future to 2025-2050: business-as-usual scenario and deviations

By: Amarasinghe, Upali, Shah, Tushaar, Turral, Hugh, Anand, B. K.

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India's water future to 2025-2050: business-as-usual scenario and deviations

By: Amarasinghe, Upali, Shah, Tushaar, Turral, Hugh, Anand, B. K.

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Making Farmers' Co-Operatives Work

Design, Governance and Management

By: Tushaar Shah

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Making Farmers' Co-Operatives Work

Design, Governance and Management

By: Tushaar Shah

The author has to be commended for undertaking this most analytical and useful work. Indeed it is a welcome addition to the literature on cooperatives." --National cooperative Development Corporation Bulletin "This study offers a practical lesson in the process of exploring the strategy for improving the general performance of village co-operatives. In that sense the book is highly valuable1⁄4. It provides a unique reference for guiding researchers, planners, policy makers, leaders and managers." --Deccan Herald "This is a book which is a must for all co-operators." --Kisan World "Tushaar Shah's book Making Farmers' Co-operative Work sparkles. For seldom do books on cooperatives go beyond a stereotyped pile up of facts and observations loosely held together with the glue of analysis relating to a few successful cases instead of undertaking a broad, incisive and complete study... The writer adroitly infuses new thinking and concept into his work with an immaculate sense of timing and the touch of an artist... [At] a time when cooperatives are subjected to pressures of the new economic policy, policy makers, planners and leaders can make ample use of ideas expressed by the author in designing a cooperative. The type of methodology used by the author can be used for the study of coops in other states and also different types of cooperatives. This will not only enhance the value of this work, but also provide a fertile ground for testing his theories, views and theses." --The Cooperator Making Farmers' Cooperatives Work offers an alternative approach to the study of cooperatives and presents a new theory, based on empirical evidence to explain why cooperatives and village organizations succeed or fail. The author, Tushaar Shah presents his theoretical framework in a concise manner, analyzing the performance and limitations of a village cooperative based on a review of 50 case studies. This model has advantages over existing approaches because of its emphasis on central tendencies rather than on extremes, for its explanation of both successes and failures, and for bringing the members of cooperatives to the center of the inquiry, thus offering them a guide for positive action. Students and academics interested in regional development, cooperatives, management studies, organizational behavior, rural development, economics, policy studies, and sociology will find Making Farmers' Cooperatives Work useful and it's approach unique in the way it analyzes, taking a systems view of the cooperative enterprise.

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0803992599

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The Groundwater Economy of Pakistan

By: Asad Sarwar Qureshi,Tushaar Shah,Mujeeb Akhtar

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The Groundwater Economy of Pakistan

By: Asad Sarwar Qureshi,Tushaar Shah,Mujeeb Akhtar

This working paper presents the results of a comprehensive groundwater survey of Pakistan, designed to understand the dynamics of groundwater use, operation and maintenance patterns, socio-economics of groundwater irrigation, land use pattern, crops, yields, and groundwater irrigation practices. For this survey, Pakistan was divided into 83 nodal intervals, with each node covering an area of 100 km*100 km; and one village from center of each grid was selected as sample. From each sample village, 15 tubewell owners were randomly selected as respondents. In total, 1200 private tubewell owners were interviewed for this study. The distance between two sample villages was kept more than 40 kilometers. This was done to avoid influences of one-village activities on the other.

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Book's by Tushaar Shah

Taming the Anarchy

Taming the Anarchy

Taming the Anarchy

Taming the Anarchy

Energy-irrigation Nexus in South Asia

Energy-irrigation Nexus in South Asia

Pedaling Out of Poverty

Pedaling Out of Poverty

Institutional Alternatives in African Smallholder Irrigation

Institutional Alternatives in African Smallholder Irrigation

Irrigation Management in Pakistan and India

Irrigation Management in Pakistan and India

Wells and Welfare in the Ganga Basin

Wells and Welfare in the Ganga Basin

Changing consumption patterns: Implications on food and water demand in India

Changing consumption patterns: Implications on food and water demand in India

India's water future to 2025-2050: business-as-usual scenario and deviations

India's water future to 2025-2050: business-as-usual scenario and deviations

Changing consumption patterns: Implications on food and water demand in India

Changing consumption patterns: Implications on food and water demand in India

Energy-irrigation Nexus in South Asia

Energy-irrigation Nexus in South Asia

Wells and Welfare in the Ganga Basin

Wells and Welfare in the Ganga Basin

India's water future to 2025-2050: business-as-usual scenario and deviations

India's water future to 2025-2050: business-as-usual scenario and deviations

Making Farmers' Co-Operatives Work

Making Farmers' Co-Operatives Work

The Groundwater Economy of Pakistan

The Groundwater Economy of Pakistan

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