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Drip Irrigation for Agriculture - Untold Stories of Efficiency, Innovation and Development (Hardcover)
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Drip Irrigation for Agriculture - Untold Stories of Efficiency, Innovation and Development (Hardcover)
Series: Earthscan Studies in Water Resource Management
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Initially associated with hi-tech irrigated agriculture, drip
irrigation is now being used by a much wider range of farmers in
emerging and developing countries. This book documents the
enthusiasm, spread and use of drip irrigation systems by
smallholders but also some disappointments and disillusion faced in
the global South. It explores and explains under which conditions
it works, for whom and with what effects. The book deals with drip
irrigation 'behind the scenes', showcasing what largely remain
'untold stories'. Most research on drip irrigation use plot-level
studies to demonstrate the technology's ability to save water or
improve efficiencies and use a narrow and rather prescriptive
engineering or economic language. They tend to be grounded in a
firm belief in the technology and focus on the identification of
ways to improve or better realize its potential. The technology
also figures prominently in poverty alleviation or agricultural
modernization narratives, figuring as a tool to help smallholders
become more innovative, entrepreneurial and business minded.
Instead of focusing on its potential, this book looks at drip
irrigation-in-use, making sense of what it does from the
perspectives of the farmers who use it, and of the development
workers and agencies, policymakers, private companies, local
craftsmen, engineers, extension agents or researchers who engage
with it for a diversity of reasons and to realize a multiplicity of
objectives. While anchored in a sound engineering understanding of
the design and operating principles of the technology, the book
extends the analysis beyond engineering and hydraulics to
understand drip irrigation as a sociotechnical phenomenon that not
only changes the way water is supplied to crops but also transforms
agricultural farming systems and even how society is organized. The
book provides field evidence from a diversity of interdisciplinary
case studies in sub-Saharan Africa, the Mediterranean, Latin
America, and South Asia, thus revealing some of the untold stories
of drip irrigation.
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