Pariyar, B, Lovett, JC orcid.org/0000-0002-5839-3770 and Snell, C (2018) Inequality of access in irrigation systems of the mid-hills of Nepal. Area Development and Policy, 3 (1). pp. 60-78. ISSN 2379-2949
Abstract
Access to, and control over, water for irrigation is one of the most important factors for increasing agricultural productivity, thereby affecting household food security and levels of poverty in developing countries. However, investments in the irrigation sector have often failed to consider equity aspects of irrigation interventions. Using data from 199 households from three irrigation systems in the mid-hills of Nepal, we analyse access and control of water in different levels of socio-economic heterogeneities. The results demonstrate that efforts to improve livelihoods of the rural poor should give due consideration to the distributional aspects of irrigation interventions, with authority for allocating the level of access to irrigation water given to the farmers throughout the system.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2017 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
Keywords: | Spatial inequality, socio-economic heterogeneity, access to water, irrigation, poverty, Nepal |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Environment (Leeds) > School of Geography (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 11 Aug 2017 15:16 |
Last Modified: | 12 Dec 2024 11:16 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/23792949.2017.1353886 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:120031 |