Using the cross-section survey data on the activities of irrigators' associations in the Philippi... more Using the cross-section survey data on the activities of irrigators' associations in the Philippines, regression analysis is conducted to identify factors underlying the success and failure in farmers' organizing collective actions for maintenance and operation of gravity irrigation systems. It is found that collective action is difficult to organize where: (a) water supply is uniformly abundant, (b) water supply is greatly different between upper and lower streams in lateral, (c) size of association is large, (d) population density is low, (e) the ratio of non-farm households is high, and (f) the history of irrigated farming is short. The possibility is also found that these difficulties can be overcome with adequate supports of state agencies to promote community-level cooperation. The findings call for government to play the active role of enhancing local communities' organizational capacity in the process of handing over to them the management of local commons.
This book attempts to develop a model ofagri-cultural development in which the behaviors of not o... more This book attempts to develop a model ofagri-cultural development in which the behaviors of not only private-but also public-sector suppliers of scientific knowledge and technology are treated as endogenous rather than exogen-ous to the economic system. The model also incorporates the economic response of institutions to new economic opportunities as a component of the economic system. [The SCI® and SSCI® indicate that this book has been cited in over 310 publications.1
Using the cross-section survey data on the activities of irrigators' associations in the Philippi... more Using the cross-section survey data on the activities of irrigators' associations in the Philippines, regression analysis is conducted to identify factors underlying the success and failure in farmers' organizing collective actions for maintenance and operation of gravity irrigation systems. It is found that collective action is difficult to organize where: (a) water supply is uniformly abundant, (b) water supply is greatly different between upper and lower streams in lateral, (c) size of association is large, (d) population density is low, (e) the ratio of non-farm households is high, and (f) the history of irrigated farming is short. The possibility is also found that these difficulties can be overcome with adequate supports of state agencies to promote community-level cooperation. The findings call for government to play the active role of enhancing local communities' organizational capacity in the process of handing over to them the management of local commons.
This book attempts to develop a model ofagri-cultural development in which the behaviors of not o... more This book attempts to develop a model ofagri-cultural development in which the behaviors of not only private-but also public-sector suppliers of scientific knowledge and technology are treated as endogenous rather than exogen-ous to the economic system. The model also incorporates the economic response of institutions to new economic opportunities as a component of the economic system. [The SCI® and SSCI® indicate that this book has been cited in over 310 publications.1
Using the cross-section survey data on the activities of irrigators' associations in the Philippi... more Using the cross-section survey data on the activities of irrigators' associations in the Philippines, regression analysis is conducted to identify factors underlying the success and failure in farmers' organizing collective actions for maintenance and operation of gravity irrigation systems. It is found that collective action is difficult to organize where: (a) water supply is uniformly abundant, (b) water supply is greatly different between upper and lower streams in lateral, (c) size of association is large, (d) population density is low, (e) the ratio of non-farm households is high, and (f) the history of irrigated farming is short. The possibility is also found that these difficulties can be overcome with adequate supports of state agencies to promote community-level cooperation. The findings call for government to play the active role of enhancing local communities' organizational capacity in the process of handing over to them the management of local commons.
This book attempts to develop a model ofagri-cultural development in which the behaviors of not o... more This book attempts to develop a model ofagri-cultural development in which the behaviors of not only private-but also public-sector suppliers of scientific knowledge and technology are treated as endogenous rather than exogen-ous to the economic system. The model also incorporates the economic response of institutions to new economic opportunities as a component of the economic system. [The SCI® and SSCI® indicate that this book has been cited in over 310 publications.1
Using the cross-section survey data on the activities of irrigators' associations in the Philippi... more Using the cross-section survey data on the activities of irrigators' associations in the Philippines, regression analysis is conducted to identify factors underlying the success and failure in farmers' organizing collective actions for maintenance and operation of gravity irrigation systems. It is found that collective action is difficult to organize where: (a) water supply is uniformly abundant, (b) water supply is greatly different between upper and lower streams in lateral, (c) size of association is large, (d) population density is low, (e) the ratio of non-farm households is high, and (f) the history of irrigated farming is short. The possibility is also found that these difficulties can be overcome with adequate supports of state agencies to promote community-level cooperation. The findings call for government to play the active role of enhancing local communities' organizational capacity in the process of handing over to them the management of local commons.
This book attempts to develop a model ofagri-cultural development in which the behaviors of not o... more This book attempts to develop a model ofagri-cultural development in which the behaviors of not only private-but also public-sector suppliers of scientific knowledge and technology are treated as endogenous rather than exogen-ous to the economic system. The model also incorporates the economic response of institutions to new economic opportunities as a component of the economic system. [The SCI® and SSCI® indicate that this book has been cited in over 310 publications.1
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