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Liebrand, Janwillem
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Water Alternatives 12 (2019) 1
ISSN: 1965-0175
The politics of research on farmer-managed irrigation systems in Asia : Some reflections for Africa
2019
This article presents a reconstruction of the 1980s' research-policy debate on farmer-managed irrigation systems (FMIS) in Asia. Such a reconstruction yields important lessons for the role of academic researchers in the current research-policy debate on African farmer-led irrigation development (FLID). Two interrelated insights stand out: (1) academic irrigation research was (and is) produced in an institutional context that is infused with the politics of the professional tradition in irrigation, and more specifically, (2) academic knowledge on the institutional heterogeneity of farmer-organized irrigation was (and is) incompatible with how things really work in the institution of the irrigation tradition. These insights raise critical questions on the politics of academic research on FLID, whose research agenda is really pursued, what roles do academic researchers want to play, and how to make irrigation research in development more democratic?.
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Farmer-led irrigation development
Farmer-managed irrigation systems
Irrigation
Knowledge
Policy
Politics of research
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