The Irrigation Management Network represents a world-wide network of researchers and administrators interested in the issues of irrigation management and irrigation schemes. This series of papers covers 1975-81. 

Articles featured in these issues include:

• Some propositions about irrigation project and system management
• Solve basic problems of evaluating irrigation management
• Skills, functions and organisational forms in relation to project and system characteristics
• Commonwealth workshop on irrigation management (17–27 October 1978)
• Evaluating the organisation and Management of Irrigated Agriculture
• New irrigation schemes: planning, design and social impact
• Irrigation in Egypt, past and present
• Who gets a last rural resource? The potential and challenge of lift irrigation for the rural poor
• Field experimentation and generalisation in irrigation
• Development and management
• Promoting participatory management on small irrigation schemes; an experiment from the Philippines
• Guidelines for identifying and appraising communal irrigation schemes
• Two approaches to tertiary command developments design office v. participatory field survey
• A note on the relationship between action research and other forms of engineering research.