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In this issue.....

The Newsletter #8 published in April 1998, Highights the Fourth International Seminars held at Bali from 14 - 19 July, 1998. The seminar was sponsored by five organizations: Indonesia's INPIM Chapter to be, Global INPIM, the Minsitry of Public Works, Indonesa, International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage and the Economic Development Institute of the World Bank. The seminar focussed on four themes: (1) the impact of PIM on agricultural yields and system performance, (2) the impact of PIM on the poor, (3) how best to combine lobbying for changes to legal frameworks with efforts to organise farmers into associations, and (4) how to combine turnover with rehabilitation.

Highlights:

• Message from the New Chairman, Francois-Marie Patorni. Read more...
• Fourth International Seminar on PIM.  Read more...
• Colombia's land development policy. Read more
• Water markets in Pakistan. Read more
• Improving Traditional Irrigation in Tanzania. Read more
• PIM in Bhakra a project in India by Dr. A Schrevel. Read more...
• PIM Pilot projects in Pakistan by Edqard J. Vander Velde. Read more...
• The role of women in Albania by Margreth Hammer. Read more...
• Irrigation Management Transfer in Kyrgysthan by Mark Lust. Read more...

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