Small-holders and Water Resources: A Review Essay on the Economics of Locally-managed Irrigation

Jeff Dayton-Johnson

Oxford Development Studies, 2003, vol. 31, issue 3, 315-339

Abstract: A vast literature on locally-managed irrigation systems provides important lessons regarding the experience of irrigators with community management. This review draws upon research in sociology, anthropology, political science, engineering and economic theory to suggest a framework for understanding institutions for governing irrigation systems. The review assesses measures of irrigation system performance, the importance of co-operation, the impact of heterogeneity among the water users on performance and co-operation, and the breadth of institutional forms observed in the field study literature. The review closes with a call for more structured qualitative measures of group performance and for more large-scale research of many irrigation systems to complement the case study focus of the existing literature.

Date: 2003
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