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Dalits and Natural Resource Governance: Social Taxonomy, Socio-Economic Heterogeneity and Distributional Implication of Irrigation Development in Nepal

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dc.contributor.author Pariyar, Bishnu en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2009-07-31T14:36:26Z
dc.date.available 2009-07-31T14:36:26Z
dc.date.issued 2006 en_US
dc.date.submitted 2008-04-15 en_US
dc.date.submitted 2008-04-15 en_US
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/10535/1387
dc.description.abstract "This paper reviews literature and sets the scene for understanding the relationship between local-level socio-economic heterogeneity and equitable management of irrigation infrastructure. It calls for a critical approach that evaluates the processes which persistently marginalize dalits despite pro-poor interventions. Marginality and poverty have persisted despite numerous agricultural developmental interventions (some pro-poor) and much research, often initiating local institutional arrangements in managing common pool resources. Relationships between irrigation and poverty and caste hierarchy, power relation and benefit appropriation from CPRs are discussed in order to identify the principal barriers to access amongst the dalit population. Impacts of heterogeneity in the management of local commons are investigated. Social taxonomy based on castes system, and the nature of shielding effects imposed by it in the trickling down of developmental effects of irrigation infrastructure is critically examined. Participatory and equitable pro-poor management structures are advocated. This study has significant policy relevance for pro-poor interventions in irrigation development not only in Nepal but generically in developing countries." en_US
dc.subject caste system en_US
dc.subject Dalit (Indian people) en_US
dc.subject natural resources en_US
dc.subject irrigation en_US
dc.subject common pool resources en_US
dc.subject heterogeneity en_US
dc.title Dalits and Natural Resource Governance: Social Taxonomy, Socio-Economic Heterogeneity and Distributional Implication of Irrigation Development in Nepal en_US
dc.type Conference Paper en_US
dc.type.published published en_US
dc.coverage.region Middle East & South Asia en_US
dc.coverage.country Nepal en_US
dc.subject.sector Water Resource & Irrigation en_US
dc.identifier.citationconference Ninth International Network for Participatory Irrigation Management (INPIM) International Conference en_US
dc.identifier.citationconfdates December 2006 en_US
dc.identifier.citationconfloc Islamabad, Pakistan en_US


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