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Irrigation management institutions in transition: a look back, a look forward

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Irrigation and Drainage Systems

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The paper explores current dissatisfaction withpast irrigation improvement approaches and examines reasonssuch dissatisfaction is so widespread. It reviews past andcurrent efforts to improve irrigation management in developingcountries and deduces themes with implications for the future. Finally it builds on these themes to speculate on directions inwhich both public irrigation agencies and local levelmanagement institutions will evolve in the future.

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    Mark Svendsen

  2. International Food Policy Research Institute, 1200 17th Street NW, Washington, DC, 20036, USA

    Ruth Meinzen-Dick

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Svendsen, M., Meinzen-Dick, R. Irrigation management institutions in transition: a look back, a look forward. Irrigation and Drainage Systems 11, 139–156 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1005748129223

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