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Modernisation and f...
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de Bont, Chris,1990-Stockholms universitet,Kulturgeografiska institutionen
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Modernisation and farmer-led irrigation development in Africa : A study of state-farmer interactions in Tanzania
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Stockholm :Department of Human Geography, Stockholm University,2018
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72 s.
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LIBRIS-ID:oai:DiVA.org:su-155644
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ISBN:9789177972242
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ISBN:9789177972259
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https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-155644URI
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Språk:engelska
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At the time of the doctoral defense, the following papers were unpublished and had a status as follows: Paper 1: Manuscript. Paper 2: Manuscript. Paper 3: Manuscript.
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After years of relatively low investment, irrigation development in Africa has been put back on the policy agenda as a way of increasing agricultural productivity. In spite of existing evidence of farmers’ irrigation initiatives across the African continent, current policy prescriptions still revolve around (large-scale) state intervention. Farmers’ irrigation initiatives are generally considered traditional, backward, and unable to contribute to the agrarian transformation that many African nations are after.This study aims to problematize this narrow notion of farmers’ irrigation initiatives, and explores how underlying ideas of modernity/modernisation influence irrigation policies and interactions between farmers and the state. Focusing on Tanzania, this thesis consists of an introductory chapter and three separate studies.The first study is a historical analysis of the state’s attitude towards irrigation development and farmers’ irrigation initiatives in Tanzania. It shows how historically, the development narrative of ‘modern’ irrigation as a driver for agricultural transformation has been successful in depoliticizing irrigation interventions and their actual contribution to development.The second study engages with a case where farmers have developed groundwater irrigation. The study analyses how differentiated access to capital leads to different modes of irrigated agricultural production, and shows the variation between and within farmers’ irrigation initiatives. It also illustrates how an irrigation area that does not conform to the traditional/modern policy dichotomy is invisible to the government.The third study concerns a farmer-initiated gravity-fed earthen canal system. It shows how the implementation of a demand-driven irrigation development policy model can (inadvertently), through self-disciplining by farmers and a persistent shared modernisation aspiration, turn a scheme initiated and managed by farmers into a government-managed scheme, without actually improving irrigation practices.Together, these studies show how modernisation thinking has pervaded irrigation development policy and practice in Tanzania, influencing both the state’s and farmers’ actions and attitudes, often to the detriment of farmers’ irrigation initiatives.
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Börjeson, Lowe,DocentStockholms universitet,Kulturgeografiska institutionen(Swepub:su)Lowe
(preses)
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Veldwisch, Gert Jan,Assistant ProfessorDepartment of Water Resources Management, Wageningen University, The Netherlands
(preses)
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Widgren, Mats,Professor EmeritusStockholms universitet,Kulturgeografiska institutionen
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Mdee, Anna,Associate ProfessorSchool of Politics and International Studies, University of Leeds, UK
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Stockholms universitetKulturgeografiska institutionen
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