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From central control to service delivery? reflections on irrigation management and expertise†‡

  1. Maurits W. Ertsen*

Article first published online: 20 FEB 2009

DOI: 10.1002/ird.476

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Irrigation and Drainage

Irrigation and Drainage

Supplement: Special Issue on Water for Food and Poverty Alleviation

Volume 58, Issue Supplement 1, pages S87–S103, February 2009

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Ertsen, M. W. (2009), From central control to service delivery? reflections on irrigation management and expertise. Irrig. and Drain., 58: S87–S103. doi: 10.1002/ird.476

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  1. Water Resources/Water Management Group, Department of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Delft University of Technology, Delft, the Netherlands

*Water Resources/Water Management Group, Department of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Delft University of Technology. P.O. Box 5048, 2600 GA Delft, The Netherlands.

  1. †

    This paper has been written as a combined response to three different demands made on the author. A first demand came from the editors of the journal to prepare an overview on irrigation management, on the occasion of the 5th World Water Forum to be held in Istanbul in 2009. A second demand came from the current chairman of the International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage, Peter Lee, who asked during an ICID meeting in Sacramento, USA, in October 2007, what more ICID could do on modernization than the Food and Agricultural Organization had proposed in its MASSCOTE approach (Renault et al., 2007). The third demand cannot be attributed to a single person, but comes from the re-merging attention on irrigation development, especially in Africa, within the international community (World Bank, 2007).

  2. ‡

    Du contrôle centralisé à la gestion d'un service? Réflexions sur la gestion de l'irrigation et l'expertise en irrigation.

Publication History

  1. Issue published online: 20 FEB 2009
  2. Article first published online: 20 FEB 2009
  3. Manuscript Received: 17 NOV 2008
  4. Manuscript Accepted: 17 NOV 2008

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