Irrigation improvement projects in Tanzania: Scale impacts and policy implications

Lankford, Bruce (2004) Irrigation improvement projects in Tanzania: Scale impacts and policy implications. Water Policy, 6 (2). pp. 89-102. ISSN 1366-7017

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Abstract

Observations in Tanzania indicate that the improvement of traditional smallholder irrigation does not necessarily result in improved water performance, greater equity and reduced conflict. The usual outcomes of such projects is a gain in water for the system being upgraded, especially if located upstream, accompanied by less ability to share water at the river basin scale. This paper concludes that these projects do not commonly understand, match and respond to the complexities of well-developed and evolving smallholder irrigation found in multi-user river basins. Without re-appraisal, the risk is that donors will be unsuccessful with smallholder irrigation and turn away from this sector, as they did with large-scale irrigation.

Item Type:	Article
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Global Development (formerly School of International Development)
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Centres > Water Security Research Centre
Depositing User:	Abigail Dalgleish
Date Deposited:	09 Aug 2011 11:22
Last Modified:	12 Sep 2023 09:30
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/34377
DOI:	10.2166/wp.2004.0006

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