Gender in lift irrigation schemes in East Gujarat, India
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2001
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Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute
Abstract
This study has four main sections, each with its own research question, which together explain the importance of women involvement in family farm and irrigation management. The first section identifies gender issues in the community-founded irrigation program that is sponsored by Navinchandra Mafatlal Sadguru Water and Development Foundation (Sadguru) in East Gurjarat, India. The second and third sections look at gender aspects within a larger context and explain the general effects of the program. In the fourth section the researchers look at the gender factors within irrigation management, and at the methods employed by Sadguru to improve female participation in irrigation cooperatives.
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Village-town, Water management, Cooperatives, Women, Irrigated farming, Gender, Poverty, Irrigation, Community participation, Decision making, Gender relations, Households, Irrigation systems, Citizen participation, India, Gujarat, Tandi, Chhasiya, South asia, Water lifting, Communal irrigation systems, Legal aspects, Villages, Farm/Enterprise Scale Watershed
Citation
International Water Management Institute (IWMI) Working Paper No. 11