Managing Canal Irrigation: Practical Analysis from South AsiaThe many billions of dollars invested in canal irrigation in recent decades have had disappointing results. Rarely have projected benefits in well-being or production been achieved. In consequence, in the mid-1980s, further vast sums are being spent throughout the Third World on programmes for rehabilitation, canal lining, on farm development, and farmers' organisation. In this book, Robert Chambers shows that much of this policy and practice is based on misleading research and misdiagnosis. When applied to the complexity and uniqueness of canal irrigation systems, the normal professionalism of civil and agricultural engineers, agronomists, economists, and sociologists, leaves gaps which are keys to better performance. In successive chapters, five such gaps are analysed and presented: main system management, including the scheduling and delivery of water, and communications; canal irrigation at night; management of canal systems jointly by farmers and officials; professional conditions and incentives for irrigation managers; and methods for diagnostic analysis to identify cost-effective actions for improvement. Managing Canal Irrigation has been written for policy-makers, irrigation managers, consultants, researchers, trainers and teachers. It challenges all concerned with improving the performance and anti-poverty impact of canal irrigation, whether in government departments, aid agencies, consultancy firms, training and research institutes or universities, to re-examine their beliefs, biases and actions. By going beyond the limits of normal professionalism, the book presents a new syllabus for training, a new agenda for research and development, and points to new policies and to practical action to be taken in the field. |
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Managing Canal Irrigation: Practical Analysis from South Asia Robert Chambers Geen voorbeeld beschikbaar - 1989 |
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
action activities agricultural analysis applied appraisal approach Asia benefits better canal irrigation systems cent channels Chapter command committees communications concerned construction costs crops cultivation delivery demand difficult distributaries distribution effects engineers especially evidence example experience farm farmers field flows follow gain gaps groups head hectares higher important improve increased India interest irrigation at night issues labour land learning less losses lower main system maintenance major means measure meetings methods minor night normal objectives observed officials operation organisation outlet participation performance pers physical plans political poor potential practice present problems production professional programme question receive reduce reported reservoir rotational rural scheduling season social South Sri Lanka staff Table tail tailend usually village warabandi Water Management water supply waterlogging yields
Populaire passages
Pagina 264 - Opportunities for Increase of World Food Production from the Irrigated Lands of Developing countries. Report to the Technical Advisory Committee of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research.
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Bibliografische gegevens
| Titel | Managing Canal Irrigation: Practical Analysis from South Asia Wye Studies in Agricultural and Rural Development |
| Auteur | Robert Chambers |
| Editie | geïllustreerd, herdruk |
| Uitgever | Cambridge University Press, 1988 |
| ISBN | 0521347882, 9780521347884 |
| Lengte | 279 pagina's |
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