Institutional alternatives in African smallholder irrigation: Lessons from international experience with irrigation management transfer

Tushaar Shah, Barbara van Koppen, Douglas J. Merrey, Marna de Lange and Madar Samad

No 44563, IWMI Research Reports from International Water Management Institute

Abstract: This report reviews several decades of global experience in transferring management of government-run irrigation systems to farmer associations or other nongovernmental agencies in an attempt to apply the lessons of success to the African smallholder irrigation context.

Keywords: Agribusiness; Agricultural Finance; Community/Rural/Urban Development; Crop Production/Industries; Labor and Human Capital; Land Economics/Use (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: v, 24p.
Date: 2002
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.44563

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