The 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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