Farmer Participation And Irrigation Organization

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