Does irrigation water matter for rural poverty alleviation? Evidence from South and South-East Asia

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Water management and crop production for food security in China: A review (2009, background): “With sustained growth in agriculture, rural incomes rose dramatically, lifting millions of people out of poverty permanently (Hussain and Hanjra, 2003, 2004).”
Linking development to climate adaptation: Leveraging generic and specific capacities to reduce vulnerability to drought in NE Brazil (2016, background): “Irrigation as a specific capacity that not only mediates climatic risk, but also enhances incomes and productivity on farms meets this criteria (Hussain and Hanjra, 2003).”
Investing in water for food, ecosystems, and livelihoods: an overview of the Comprehensive Assessment of Water Management in Agriculture. (2010, background): “Poverty remains chronic even in irrigated areas because of inequitable benefit sharing and poor irrigation performance (Hussain and Hanjra 2003).”
Global water crisis and future food security in an era of climate change (2010, background): “Increased inequity in access to water creating water ‘‘haves” and ‘‘have nots”, perpetuating poverty (Hussain and Hanjra, 2003) and widening the inequalities in access to water for food. ountries for the period 1971–2000.”