Drip Irrigation for Agriculture (eBook, ePUB)

Untold Stories of Efficiency, Innovation and Development
Redaktion: Venot, Jean-Philippe; Zwarteveen, Margreet; Kuper, Marcel

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book documents the enthusiasm, spread and use of drip irrigation systems by smallholders in the global South, in an attempt to explore and explain under which conditions it works, for whom and with what effects.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134989829
• Artikelnr.: 48799714

Autorenporträt

Jean-Philippe Venot is a researcher at the French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development (IRD/UMR G-EAU) and is affiliated to the Water Resources Management group of Wageningen University, The Netherlands. He is currently based at the Royal University of Agriculture in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Marcel Kuper is a senior irrigation scientist at the International Agricultural Centre for Research and Development (CIRAD/UMR G-EAU), France, and a visiting professor at the Agricultural and Veterinary Sciences Institute Hassan II in Rabat, Morocco. 　 Margreet Zwarteveen is professor of Water Governance at IHE Delft Institute for Water Education, and at the Governance and Inclusive Development Group of the University of Amsterdam, both in the Netherlands.　

Inhaltsangabe

Section I: Setting the Scene: Diverse Perspectives on Drip Irrigation
1. From Obscurity to Prominence: How Drip Irrigation Conquered the World 2.
Decentering the Technology: Explaining the Drip Irrigation Paradox 3. The
Practice of Designing and Adapting Drip Irrigation Systems Section II:
Efficiency and Water Saving 4. Re-allocating Yet-to-be-Saved Water in
Irrigation Modernization Projects, the Case of the Bittit Irrigation
System, Morocco 5. Unraveling the Enduring Paradox of Increased Pressure on
Groundwater Through Efficient Drip Irrigation 6. Sour Grapes: Multiple
Groundwater Enclosures in Morocco's Saïss Region Section III: Modernization
and Agrarian Change 7. Creating Small Farm Entrepreneurs or Doing Away with
Peasants? State Driven Implementation of Drip Irrigation in Chile 8.
Conquering the Desert: Drip Irrigation in the Chavimochic System in Peru 9.
An Elite Technology? Drip Irrigation, Agro-Export and Agricultural Policies
in Guanajuato, Mexico 10. Collective Drip Irrigation Projects between
Technological Change and Social Construction: Some observations from
Morocco Section IV: Poverty and Development 11. Historical Perspective on
Low-Cost Drip Irrigation Design and Promotion 12. Low Cost Drip Irrigation
in Zambia: Gendered Practices of Promotion and Use 13. The Conundrum of Low
Cost Drip Irrigation in Burkina Faso: Why Development Interventions that
Have Little to Show for Continue 14. The Mysterious Case of the Persistence
of Donor-and-NGO-Driven Irrigation Kit Investments for African Smallholder
Farmers Section V: Alliances, Networks and Innovation 15. 'Bricolage' as an
Everyday Practice of Contestation of Smallholders Engaging with Drip
Irrigation 16. The 'Innovation Factory': User-Led Incremental Innovation of
Drip Irrigation Systems in the Algerian Desert 17. Intermediaries in Drip
Irrigation Innovation Systems: A Focus on Retailers in the Saïs Region in
Morocco 18. Drip Irrigation and State Subsidies in India: Understanding the
Success of the Gujarat Green Revolution Company Postscript: A Dialectic
Inquiry in the World of Drip Irrigation