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We are pleased to inform you that the final report of a major
multi-country study on "Pro-poor intervention Strategies
in irrigated Agriculture in Asia" (Bangladesh, China,
India, Indonesia, Pakistan and Vietnam) is now available.
There is no doubt that the Green Revolution transformed the
lives and livelihoods of millions of Asia's people. Despite
the achievements of the Green Revolution, poverty persists
in Asia, which today contains the highest absolute numbers
of poor-more poor people even than in sub-Saharan Africa.
Irrigation
is an essential part of the package of technologies, institutions
and policies that has underpinned increased agricultural output
in Asia. Past experience shows that this package, although
broadly beneficial to society, has not yet fully succeeded
in banishing poverty. In the context of the UN millennium
goal of halving world poverty by the year 2015, are there
ways of making the package more pro-poor in the future?
In
2001, the International Water
Management Institute (IWMI), in collaboration with national
partners, launched a major study that set out to answer this
question. The study explored the links between irrigation
and poverty alleviation in six Asian countries. It examined
the evidence regarding the effects of irrigation-and particularly
its interaction with other components of the package-as a
basis for drawing out lessons for policymakers, donor agencies
and researchers.
The
report provides an internally reviewed final synthesis of
the study findings, conclusions and lessons learnt, and outlines
the identified pro-poor intervention options and guidelines.
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For more
information about the International Water Management Institute
, see http://www.iwmi.org
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