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Assessing the growth potential of farmer-led irrigation development in sub-Saharan Africa

评估撒哈拉以南非洲农民主导的灌溉发展的增长潜力

基本信息

批准号：
ES/L012391/1
负责人：
Philip Woodhouse
金额：
$ 55.8万
依托单位：
University of Manchester
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2015
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2015 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FL012391%2F1
关键词：
Assessing growth potential farmer led

项目摘要

This research will contribute to answering the question "what institutions and policies lead to investment in irrigation by individual farmers, groups of farmers and large-scale enterprises?" under the first DEGRP theme "Agriculture and Growth". The project will assess whether current investment by farmers in small-scale irrigation might offer a model for broad-based economic growth in rural areas of Africa. The research is timely because, after nearly two decades of stalled irrigation investment due to poor performance of irrigation projects in Africa in the 1970s, international commitment to funding African irrigation is growing rapidly as a response to rising food prices and the continuing stagnation of African agricultural productivity. However, funding commitments are yet to be informed by systematic analysis of how irrigation actually works in today's farming contexts in Africa, leading to uncertainty about choices of technology and forms of social organisation needed, and concerns that implementation of large-scale irrigation will repeat past problems and not achieve broad-based economic growth.This study will respond to this gap by bringing together social science researchers from the UK and irrigation scientists from the Netherlands to work with African researchers in Mozambique and Tanzania on case studies of contemporary irrigation in Africa. The studies will focus on cases where there is evidence that small-scale farmers are investing in irrigation, including the construction of furrows to divert streams, the management of wetter lowlands to grow rice, and the adoption of new low-cost pump technologies and drip irrigation. Each study will develop an analysis of these irrigation developments from a local and a national perspective. At a local level, a combination of interviews and questionnaire surveys will be used to identify why farmers do, or do not, invest in irrigation, the kinds of technical and financial support they can obtain, the changes in agricultural productivity they achieve, and the wider social and economic consequences, particularly for people (e.g. women, younger men, and those recently-settled in the area) whose rights to use land and water are typically subordinate to others in hierarchical systems of local governance. Case study findings will be presented for discussion by communities participating in the study. At a national level, interviews and workshops with policy-makers in both international development agencies and government, and with non-government organisations and commercial suppliers of irrigation equipment, will be used to provide an analysis of these agencies' perceptions of 'farmer-led' irrigation development and the extent to which such development is supported by policy. The countries selected provide strongly contrasting policy environments, Tanzania having recognised and supported farmer-initiated irrigation in the past whereas Mozambique has not. Project findings will be disseminated internationally through open access publication in peer-reviewed academic journals, and through engagement with an international advisory group including academic and 'end user' representatives. At a national level, the project will undertake workshops with officials and policy-makers on irrigation in both Tanzania and Mozambique both during inception and after completion of the local-level fieldwork on irrigation case studies. Research findings will also contribute to curriculum development by the African research partners.

本研究将有助于回答“是什么制度和政策导致个体农户、群体农户和大型企业投资灌溉”这一问题。“在第一个DEGRP主题“农业和增长”下。该项目将评估农民目前对小规模灌溉的投资是否可以为非洲农村地区基础广泛的经济增长提供一个模式。这项研究是及时的，因为在1970年代由于非洲灌溉项目业绩不佳而使灌溉投资停滞了近20年之后，国际上对资助非洲灌溉的承诺正在迅速增加，以应对粮食价格上涨和非洲农业生产力持续停滞的情况。然而，供资承诺尚未得到对灌溉在当今非洲农业环境中实际运作情况的系统分析的指导，导致在所需技术和社会组织形式的选择方面存在不确定性，并担心大规模灌溉的实施将重复过去的问题，而不是实现广泛的，这项研究将通过汇集来自英国的社会科学研究人员和来自荷兰的灌溉科学家与莫桑比克和坦桑尼亚的非洲研究人员合作来应对这一差距关于非洲当代灌溉的案例研究。这些研究将侧重于有证据表明小规模农户正在投资灌溉的案例，包括修建犁沟以转移溪流，管理较潮湿的低地以种植水稻，以及采用新的低成本水泵技术和滴灌。每项研究将从地方和国家的角度对这些灌溉发展进行分析。在地方一级，将采用访谈和问卷调查相结合的方式，查明农民投资或不投资灌溉的原因、他们可以获得的技术和财政支持的种类、他们在农业生产力方面实现的变化以及更广泛的社会和经济后果，特别是对人的影响（如妇女、年轻男子和最近在该地区定居的人），在地方治理的等级制度中，他们使用土地和水的权利通常从属于其他人。个案研究结果将提交参与研究的社区讨论。在国家一级，与国际发展机构和政府的决策者以及非政府组织和灌溉设备的商业供应商的访谈和研讨会，将用于分析这些机构对“农民主导”的灌溉发展的看法以及这种发展受到政策支持的程度。选定的国家提供了截然不同的政策环境，坦桑尼亚过去曾承认和支持农民发起的灌溉，而莫桑比克则没有。项目结果将通过在同行评审的学术期刊上公开发表，并通过与包括学术和“最终用户”代表在内的国际咨询小组的接触，在国际上传播。在国家一级，该项目将在坦桑尼亚和莫桑比克开展灌溉案例研究的地方一级实地工作开始期间和完成之后，与官员和决策者举办灌溉问题讲习班。研究结果还将有助于非洲研究伙伴编制课程。