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Irrigation management transfer: Worldwide efforts and results
The present water report is the final product emanating from efforts by FAO, IWMI and others to document and understand the implications of the irrigation sector embarking on a wide reform process. It is intended to be a knowledge synthesis document that captures the global experiences emerging from a wide-reaching process targeting the reform of the irrigation sector.
This study indicates that IMT is an approach for irrigation sector reform with the potential to improve the sustainability of irrigation systems. However, in order to reap its benefits, IMT
should involve a wider array of changes, including both “soft” and “hard” interventions. The process requires inter alia strong political commitment, negotiations among stakeholders, and long-term capacity development. Irrigation management transfer should not be seen as a process that has a clear “beginning” and “end”. While the former can be more easily identified, the latter is much more difficult to determine. In fact, IMT can be the initial stage of an evolving long reform process.
| Creator | Copies of FAO publications can be requested from: SALES AND MARKETING GROUP, Communication Division, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Viale delle Terme di Caracalla, 00153 Rome, Italy - E-mail: publications-sales@fao.org - Fax: +39 06 57053360 - Web site: http://www.fao.org - by Carlos Garces-Restrepo, FAO Land and Water Division/ Douglas Vermillion, Former IWMI Senior Researcher/ Giovanni Muñoz, FAO Land and Water Division (email: publications-sales@fao.org) |
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| Publisher | Copies of FAO publications can be requested from: SALES AND MARKETING GROUP, Communication Division, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Viale delle Terme di Caracalla, 00153 Rome, Italy - E-mail: publications-sales@fao.org - Fax: +39 06 57053360 - Web site: http://www.fao.org - by Carlos Garces-Restrepo, FAO Land and Water Division/ Douglas Vermillion, Former IWMI Senior Researcher/ Giovanni Muñoz, FAO Land and Water Division |
| Type of document | Report |
| Rights | Public |
| File link | n/a |
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| Source of information | FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS, Rome, 2007, © FAO 2007 |
| Keyword(s) | irrigation |
| Subject(s) | AGRICULTURE , POLICY-WATER POLICY AND WATER MANAGEMENT , WATER DEMAND |
| Relation | http://www.emwis.net/topics/agriculture |
| Geographical coverage | n/a |
