Marshalling Water Resources: A Chronology of Irrigation Development in the Chi-Mun River Basin, Northeast Thailand.
Philippe Floch, Francois Molle and Wiilibald Loiskandl. M-POWER Working Paper MP-2007-02. Unit of Social and Environmental Research: Chaing Mai University. (3629) Download...

Intensifying Agricultural Sustainability: An Anlysis of Impacts and Drivers in the Development of 'Bright Spots'. Research Report 13. Comprehensive Assessment of Water Management in Agriculture. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute.
The objectives of this study were to assess the extent and impact of ‘Bright Spot’ development on a global basis drawing on data sets developed during the course of the project and other research, and to determine whether there are important replicable drivers that contribute to the development of ‘Bright Spots’. Download...

Factors Affecting the Formation of FWUCs in Institution Building for PIMD in Cambodia: Two Case Studies. Working Paper 113. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute.
This study carried out towards the end of 2004 in two irrigation schemes of contrasting socioeconomic and physical scenarios analyzes the factors that influence the formation of Farmer Water User Communities (FWUCs) under different physical, socioeconomic, legal and institutional conditions. Download...

Performance Evaluation and Impact Assessment of the ASIALAND Network: Management of Sloping Land for Sustainable Agriculture Project
Performance evaluation focused on the efficiency of the project in generating the immediate products and on the effectiveness of these products in contributing to the attainment of the project’s expected outputs, while impact assessment focused on project participants and associated changes in the actual circumstances of the communities and their environment. Download...

Proceeding of SSWM 2004 International Conference on Innovative Practices for Sustainable Sloping Lands and Watershed Management
The SSWM 2004 International Conference on Innovative Practices for Sustainable Sloping Lands and Watershed Management was held in 5-9 September 2004, Chiang Mai, Thailand. Published by Department of Agricultural Extension, Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperative, Bangkok. 400 pp. Download...

Breaking The Cycles of Land Degradatio: A case study from Ban Lak Sip, Lao PDR
Unsustainable farming practices in many regions are causing land resources to degrade-threatending future food secrutity as well as livelihoods of poor rural people. But, as new research has shown, tackling local problems requires an understanding of the policies and water economic and social factors that influence farmers in their decision making processes to adopt inappropriate land use practice. Download...

Previous publications

Co-composting of Acid Waste Bentonites and Their Effects on Soil Properties and Crop Biomass.
Wannipa Soda, Andrew D. Noble, Shinji Suzuki, Robert Simmons, La-ait Sindhusen, and Suwannee Bhuthorndharaj Download...

Chemical Degradation and Acidity Risk Due to Land Use Change in Northeast Thailand.
A.D. Noble, S. Ruaysoongnern, S. Sukchan, S. Berthelsen and M.J. Webb Download...

Predicting Impacts of Water Management in Coastal Zones by Hydraulic and Salinity Modeling.
C.T. Hoanh, N.D. Phong, J.W. Gowing, T.P. Tuong, N.X. Hien and N.D. Dat. Download...

Resource-conserving agriculture increases yields in developing countries.
Envrionmental Science & Technology 40 (4), 1114 -1119. Download...

Remediation of abandoned saline soils using Glycyrrhiza glabra: A study from the Hungry Steppes of Central Asia.
International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability. Download...

Reforestation policies and upland allocation in Northen Vietnam: an institutional approach for understanding farmer strategies and land use change.
International Symposium: Towards Sustainable Livelihoods and Ecosystems in Mountainous Regions, 7-9 March, 2006, Chiang Mai, Thailand. Download...

Analysis of drivers associated with the development of Bright spots.
Comprehensive Assessment Research Report, Sri Lanka. In print...

The optimal size of farm ponds in N.E. Thailand with respect to farming style and multiple uses of water and under various biophysical and socio-economic conditions.
F.W.T Penning de Vries, Sawaeng Ruaysoongnern and S. Wong Bhumiwatana. Download...

Environmentally manageable fertilizers: A new approach.
Environmentally manageable fertilizers: A new approach. Download...

Bright Spots in Uzbekistan, reversing land and water degradation while improving livelihoods: Key developments and sustaining ingredients for transition economies of the former Soviet Union.
Research Report 88. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute. (IWMI) 42p. Download...

Improving the productivity of degraded cropping systems in Northeast Thailand: improving farmer practices with innovative approaches.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Research Highlights and Vanguard Technology on Environmental Engineering in Agricultural Systems, September 12-15, 2005, Kanazawa, Japan, 371-380. Download...

Composting of bentonite wastes from vegetable oil processing with rice husk, rice husk ashes and chicken litter to lower the hydrophobicity and acid reactivity of bentonite wastes.
Proceeding of the XV International Plant Nutrition Colloquium, Beijing, China. 1186-1187. Download...

The role of clay based materials in the rejuvenation of degraded light textured soils from Northeast Thailand: Changes in physical and chemical attributes associated with the application of these materials.
LDD Technical Meeting, January 16-18, 2005. Download...

Learning Alliances development for scaling up of multi-purpose farm ponds in a semi-arid region of the Mekong basin.
Symposium on Learning Alliances for scaling up innovation approaches in the water and sanitation sector, June 7-9, 2005, Delft, the Netherlands. Download...

Enhancing the Agronomic Productivity of Degraded Soils in Northeast Thailand through Clay-based Interventions.
In: Water and Agriculture (Eds. Seng, V., Craswell, E., Fukai, S. and Fischer, K.). ACIAR Proceedings No. 116: 147-160. Download...

Brochure - IWMI Research in Southeast Asia. IWMI-SEA, Penang, Malaysia.

Management for Soil Erosion Consortium, Vietnam Team Sustainable Watershed Management in Cultivated Sloping Lands of SEA.
IRD (Research Institute for Development, France) and IWMI-SEA, posted in NISF, Hanoi, Vietnam (orange@ird.fr); NISF (National Institute for Soils and Fertilizers), MARD, Hanoi, Vietnam (toantrantnnh@yahoo.com.vn); Faculty of Chemistry, Hanoi Univ. Sciences and BIOEMCO, CNRS-Univ. Paris VI, France (huon@ccr.jussieu.fr); and IWMI-SEA, Penang, Malaysia (c.t.hoanh@cgiar.org). Download...

Improving Livelihoods through Joint Management of Wetlands and Smallholder Irrigation in the Mekong Basin.
Madhusudan Bhattarai, Mekong Wetlands Biodiversity Conservation Programme, Vientiane, Laos (madhu@mekongwetlands.org) and Chu Thai Hoanh, IWMI-SEA, Penang, Malaysia (c.t.hoanh@cgiar.org). Download...