1st Edition

Farmer Participation And Irrigation Organization

By Bradley W. Parlin Copyright 1991
272 Pages
by CRC Press

272 Pages
by CRC Press

272 Pages
by CRC Press

This book elaborates a perspective that can be used to democratize, decentralize, and privatize irrigation organizations. It uses case examples to illustrate the interrelationships between project performance, irrigation organization, and farmer participation.

Foreword -- Preface -- Farmer Participation and Irrigation Organization: An Overview -- Bureaucratic and Farmer Participation in Irrigation Development -- Designing the Organizational Interface Between Users and the Agencies -- Irrigation Experience Transfer: The Social Dimension -- Farmer Participation and Irrigation Management: Case Studies -- Farmer Involvement in Water Management: The Case of Sri Lanka -- Irrigation as a Privleged Solution in African Development -- Irrigation in the Western United States -- Farmer Participation in Irrigation Management: Limited Roles in Pakistan -- Farmer Participation in Irrigation Management: The Philippine Experience -- Irrigation Management by Farmers: The Indian Experience -- Lessons from Small Scale Irrigation Systems in Indonesia -- Local Participation in Water Management: The Peruvian Case

Biography

Parlin, Bradley W.