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1 Woodhouse, P.; Ndiaye, I. 1990. Structural adjustment and irrigated food farming in Africa: The "Disengagement" of the state in the Senegal river valley. The Open University, Faculty of Technology, Development Policy and Practice Research Group working paper. 37p. (DPP working paper no.20)
Irrigation systems ; Agricultural policy ; Rice ; River basins ; Irrigated farming ; Farmers' associations / Africa / Senegal River
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: P 1463 Record No: H07172)
2 Woodhouse, P.. 1990. The "disengagement" of the state from irrigation in the Senegal River Valley and its implications for irrigation design. In Design for sustainable farmer-managed irrigation schemes in Sub-Saharan Africa: Introductions and contributions for the international workshop held at The International Agricultural Centre, Wageningen, The Netherlands, 5-8 February 1990. Vol. II. 16p.
Government managed irrigation systems ; Farmer managed irrigation systems ; Irrigation programs ; Farmer-agency interactions / Senegal
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 631.7.6.2 G110 DES Record No: H08598)
3 Woodhouse, P.; Ndiaye, I. 1991. Structural adjustment and irrigated agriculture in Senegal. London, UK: ODI. 30p. (ODI Irrigation management network (African edition) paper 7)
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: ODI/1991/7 Record No: H009448)
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4 Woodhouse, P.. 1995. Water rights and rural restructuring in South Africa: A case study from Eastern Transvaal. International Journal of Water Resources Development, 11(4):527-544.
Water rights ; Rural development ; Case studies ; Land use ; Water use ; Irrigation management ; Water resources ; Water law ; Water resource management / South Africa
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: PER Record No: H017862)
5 de Bont, C.; Liebrand, J.; Veldwisch, G. J.; Woodhouse, P.. 2019. Modernisation and African farmer-led irrigation development: ideology, policies and practices. Water Alternatives, 12(1):107-128. (Special issue: Farmer-led Irrigation Development in Sub-Saharan Africa: Investment, Policy Engagements and Agrarian Transformation).
Farmer managed irrigation systems ; Modernization ; Irrigation management ; Policies ; Irrigation practices ; Initiatives ; State intervention ; Agricultural sector ; Irrigated farming ; Households ; Case studies / Africa South of Sahara / Mozambique / Tanzania
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H049113)
http://www.water-alternatives.org/index.php/alldoc/articles/volume-12/v12issue1/481-a12-1-7/file
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H049113.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H049113.pdf
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In both Mozambique and Tanzania, farmer-led development of irrigation is widespread, yet it is little recognised in irrigation policies and is under-supported by the government. This paper explores how this situation is exacerbated by modernisation ideas in irrigation policy and professional thinking. By means of a historical review, we trace modernisation thinking in irrigation development from the colonial period onwards, and analyse how this thinking continues to play out in contemporary irrigation policies in both countries. We then examine the relationship between modernisation thinking and practices of farmer-led irrigation development, drawing on policy documents, field studies, and interviews in both countries. Based on this analysis, we argue that the nature of farmer-led development of irrigation is consistent with many of the goals identified by state agricultural modernisation programmes, but not with the means by which government and state policies envisage their achievement. As a consequence, policies and state officials tend to screen out farmers’ irrigation initiatives as not relevant to development until they are brought within state-sanctioned processes of technical design and administration.
6 Peters, R.; Woodhouse, P.. 2019. Reform and regression: discourses of water reallocation in Mpumalanga, South Africa. Water Alternatives, 12(3):853-868.
Water allocation ; Water supply ; Reforms ; Water management ; Legislation ; Water governance ; Water rights ; Water users ; Water scarcity ; Catchment areas ; Farmers ; Participatory approaches ; Institutions ; Political aspects ; Economic aspects ; Social aspects / South Africa / Mpumalanga / Inkomati Catchment
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H049454)
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This paper traces the implementation of reforms in water resource management in the Inkomati catchment, South Africa, since the National Water Act of 1998. It focuses on the ways that the predominant water users – white commercial farmers – have negotiated competing demands for water, particularly from black farmers and from growing urban water supply systems. The paper argues that existing commercial agricultural interests have largely succeeded in maintaining their access to water. We investigate this outcome using a cultural political economy perspective which focuses on an analysis of discourses of water allocation and explores how different discourses are reinforced by social practice and through their adoption by, and diffusion through, institutions of water governance. The research has identified three principle narratives that underpin discourse: scarcity, participation, and rights. It focuses on the ways in which calculative techniques for quantifying water use and economic value have been used to reinforce discourses rooted in narratives of water scarcity, and how these narratives ultimately structure water reallocation by agencies of water governance. The paper also identifies the wider political and economic dynamics at play, and the processes that may shift the current discourse of water reallocation.
7 Veldwisch, G. J.; Woodhouse, P.. 2022. Formal and informal contract farming in Mozambique: socially embedded relations of agricultural intensification. Journal of Agrarian Change, 22(1):162-178. (Special issue: The Political Economy of Contract Farming: Emerging Insights and Changing Dynamics) [doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/joac.12461]
Contract farming ; Agreements ; Agricultural production ; Intensification ; Farmer-led irrigation ; Small-scale farming ; Markets ; Social aspects ; Households ; Case studies / Africa South of Sahara / Mozambique / Vanduzi / Messica
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H051341)
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/joac.12461
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H051341.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H051341.pdf
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This paper explores the role of contract farming arrangements in agricultural intensification in sub-Saharan Africa, combining secondary literature and original case material from Mozambique. The paper extends the scope of “contract farming” beyond the formal contracts between large companies and small-scale producers to include less formal credit agreements between farmers and traders. It argues that such informal contract arrangements are evidence of farmers' agency in “real markets.” In the studied cases, farmers use contract farming opportunities to intensify agricultural production by investing in irrigation and inputs. While informal contracts typically concern locally consumed crops, thus with more possibilities for side selling than formal contracts for export crops with company-controlled markets, informal contract compliance reflects closely knit social ties between the contracting parties. In both formal and informal contracts, purchasers tend to seek out producers who are already irrigating, thus obtaining gains from farmers' earlier investments. This also implies contract farming as a mechanism for accelerating social differentiation arising from unequal access to irrigation. The paper argues that the significance of informal contracts in the studied cases raises the possibility that informal contract farming by local traders plays a more important role in agrarian transformation in Africa than formal contract farming by large companies.
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