Sustaining linkages to high value markets through collective action in Uganda: the case of the Nyabyumba potato farmers
In Sixth IAELP International Workshop on Water Saving Technologies, Amritsar, Punjab, India, 22-24 February 2006
The purpose of this paper is to summarize IIMI/IWMI's past research and interventions related to irrigation management transfer and to document, to the extent possible, the academic, policy, and technical outcomes of these efforts. The application of a range of direct and indirect measurement techniques suggests an overall positive contribution fro...
In Research Workshop on Collective Action and Market Access for Smallholders, Cali Colombia, 2-5 October 2006
This paper discusses the importance of smallholder dairy marketing cooperatives as a strategy to promote the dairy sub sector based on the lessons learned from the Anand pattern of dairy cooperative movement, which was later replicated throughout India. Apart from the history in India, this paper identifies the factors that contributed to the succe...
Driven largely by financial pressures, many governments are transferring full or partial management responsibility for irrigation systems from government agencies to farmers organized into Water User Associations (WUAs). In most cases, improving the situation of poor farmers has been a secondary aim of this reform. But there is increasing evidence ...