Intizar Hussain

• Manager at IsDB

Karezes (qanats), historically vital sources of water for multiple uses in the driest parts of the world, have been deteriorating over the past five decades. This paper provides a review of the global literature on the status and potential of karezes, and offers country case studies for Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan, and Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. It o...

Agriculture is crucial for Pakistan's economy and irrigation is the lifeblood of agriculture sector. The irrigation system of Pakistan is the largest integrated network in the world. The state managed surface irrigation in Punjab province had not been performing well and was deteriorating day by day due to financial, managerial and socio- political...

This paper offers a critical review and synthesis of key issues and lessons on gender and diversity dimensions of irrigation in the context of poverty alleviation interventions. The paper is a part of the multi-country study carried out by the author at the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) in collaboration with national partners in s...

The overall goal of this paper is to better understand irrigation management reforms in the Yellow River Basin, especially focusing on the effect that it will have on water use and poverty. Based on a random sample of 51 villages and 189 farmers in four large irrigation districts in Ningxia and Henan provinces, both provinces in China's Yellow Rive...

There are no unanimous views regarding the real water-saving effects of land and water management innovations. Some claim that the innovations merely change the prevailing water allocation. However, there is no dispute regarding their land and water productivity impacts. The water productivity improvement ranged from 30% for zero tillage technology...

This paper is a part of the multi‐country study carried out by the author at the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) in collaboration with national partners in six Asian countries (Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, Pakistan and Vietnam) during 2001–2002. Based mainly on primary data collected from 5400 households in 26 irrigation sys...

In an overview of the evolving debates on gender and irrigation in the past two decades, this paper argues that the success of today's policy attention on a blanket policy on gender and irrigation is at the same time its weakness. Two key variations need to be specified for any gender policy to become sufficiently specific to have any teeth. First,...

This paper is part of the multi‐country study on “pro‐poor intervention strategies in irrigated agriculture in Asia” carried out by the author at the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) in collaboration with national partners in six Asian countries, namely Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, Pakistan and Vietnam. The study is largely b...

Irrigation is an essential part of the package of technologies, institutions and policies that underpins increased agricultural output in Asia. Past experience shows that this package, although broadly beneficial to societies, has not yet fully succeeded in banishing poverty. So in the context of the UN millennium development goal of halving world...

Faced with a large and rapidly increasing population, declining resource base per person, low and stagnant agricultural productivity levels and slow economic growth, most African countries are caught up in a poverty trap. The situation is alarming in sub-Saharan Africa where the poverty situation continues to worsen, and the region remains home to...

This paper provides an overview of the issues in and approaches to measuring and enhancing the value of agricultural water in large irrigated river basins. It develops a framework and a set of indicators for valuing agricultural water by looking into various dimensions and underlying key factors that influence the value of water at micro, meso and...

This paper analyzes irrigation-poverty linkages, and determines how and to what extent irrigation contributes to poverty alleviation, and whether there are any spatial patterns in poverty in irrigation systems. It also identifies conditions under which irrigation has greater anti-poverty impacts. The analysis is based on primary data collected duri...

Increasing water scarcity, degradation of land and water resources, continuing low agricultural productivity, and increasing populations are posing the largest ever challenges for development of agricultural economies in many developing countries including Pakistan. Using panel data from irrigated settings in Chaj sub-basin of the Indus basin in Pa...

The purpose of this study is to clarify the linkages between irrigation and poverty by offering an objective review of recent research on the subject. The key questions addressed herein are: (1) what is the role of irrigation development and management in poverty alleviation? (2) what are the linkages and pathways through which irrigation contribut...

The main objective of the study is to identify practical and realistic interventions toincrease the poverty alleviation impacts of irrigation in irrigated agriculture. To accomplish thisgoal, it was necessary to examine and establish the linkages between irrigation and poverty andmanagement of irrigation and poverty. Pro-poor intervention strateg...

IWMI-ADB Project

This paper addresses four key questions. What are the irrigation-poverty inequality linkages? Does access to irrigation water matter for rural poverty alleviation? Under what conditions does irrigation have the greatest impact on poverty? What are the pro-poor interventions that can enhance the antipoverty impact of irrigation? Findings from IWMI-l...

This paper presents an overview of the theoretical, methodological and policy issues that are evident both in the extant literature on the subject as well as in the set of papers that are included in this special issue. In providing such an overview, this paper also develops an analytical framework using a schematic representation of some of the mo...

In much of the recent discussions on wheat yields for India and Pakistan, attention has been drawn to irrigated-wheat-yield differences in Bhakra (India) and Punjab (Pakistan). The average wheat yields gen- erally reported in Bhakra (about 4 t ha� 1) are almost double the yield reported for Punjab (about 2 t ha� 1). These discussions have raised an...

The aim of this study is to provide an economic analysis of urban water use with a view to enhance the understanding of the factors influencing urban water demand and to estimate price elasticities of residential, commercial, and industrial water demands in Sri Lanka. Lack of research in the Sri Lanka context of this area and the need for understan...

"This study explores the conceptual and policy issues relating to the impact that irrigation has on crop production, farm income, inequities in income distribution and poverty alleviation. It also focuses, specifically, on poverty issues associated with head-tail water distribution inequity in an irrigation system."

"The objective of this paper is to provide a review of the characteristics of wastewater used for irrigation, and the reasoning behind the international guidelines presently used in regulating wastewater reuse for agriculture.This paper presents various systems of wastewater treatment available and discusses their benefits and shortcomings.Finally,...

"A major drawback of India's agriculture, watershed development and irrigation strategy has been the neglect of relatively wetter catchment areas and the tribal people living therein. Investing in small-scale interventions for improved water control can produce a dramatic impact on the productivity and dependability of tribal livelihood systems."

"Despite the widespread adoption of green revolution technology over the last three decades, enormous differences in agricultural productivity exist across farms and regions in Pakistan. Recent farm-level data from Sindh, for example, indicate that irrigated wheat output per hectare varies from 0.5 to 5.4 tons across farms. Improving and sustaining...

A model for forecasting changes in crop areas in response to changes in output prices in Australian broadacre agriculture is outlined in this paper. The crop–livestock interactions and substitution and complementary relationships among crops are modeled as a set of land allocation decisions made simultaneously but at a number of hierarchical stages...

Summary

International Water Management Institute (IWMI) II Executive Summary The present study focuses on constraints to wheat productivity in Pakistan. A review of achievements regarding the wheat productivity is performed at Pakistan level while constraints at farm level faced by the farmers are spotlighted. It covers environmental, agronomic, and econom...

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Colorado State University, 1996. Includes bibliographical references.