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Institutional alternatives in African smallholder irrigation: Lessons from international experience with irrigation management transfer

Tushaar Shah, Barbara van Koppen, Douglas J. Merrey, Marna de Lange, Madar Samad

AgEcon Search (University of Minnesota, USA) · 2002 · 147 citations · 12 references

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This report reviews several decades of global experience in transferring management of government-run irrigation systems to farmer associations or other nongovernmental agencies in an attempt to apply the lessons of success to the African smallholder irrigation context.

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