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| Title | Conflict, Cooperation, & Collective Action: Land use, water rights, and water scarcity in Manupali watershed, southern Philippines | | Author | Caroline Duque-Piñon, Delia Catacutan, Beria Leimona, Emma Abasolo, Meine van Noordwijk and Lydia Tiongco | | Year | 2010 | | Parent Title | CAPRi Workshop on Collective Action, Property Rights, and Conflict in Natural Resources Management | | Publisher | World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) Philippines | | City of Publication | Los Banos, Phillipines | | Pages | 1-17 | | Call Number | PP0299-10 | | Keywords | Water rights, water allocation, water conflict, cooperation, collective action |
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| Sustaining the environmental, social and economic development in Manupali watershed in southern Philippines is highly dependent on fair allocation of water use rights and judicious utilization of water as a scarce resource. There are many stakeholders and water users: smallholder farmers, indigenous people, multi-national companies, the local government, National Irrigation Administration, and the National Power Corporation. As demand for water outstrips supply, conflict arises between different user-groups over who can use water and how much each can use. This paper reports on initial results of on-going studies that examine water rights and land use change, to negotiate for better co-investment in managing watershed. A key issue in Manupali is the overlap in ‘water rights’, which is a privilege the government grants to use and
further appropriate water. To avoid hostile confrontation between different user-groups and to manage competition of water use, some user-groups came up with voluntary agreements for water rights sharing. Viewed in terms of cooperation and collective action, these voluntary agreements facilitated conflict management of a disputed natural resource, but fairness and equity dimensions are in question, as the
cooperating user groups extract benefits from non-cooperators who may suffer the consequence of protecting the upper watershed to maintain water supply. Supported by watershed hydrological data on water balance and its land use patterns, this paper argued that collective action at watershed scale is needed to ensure that benefits are fairly shared by both water users and producers. |
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