Supporting the Shift from State Water to Community Water: Lessons from a Social Learning Approach to Designing Joint Irrigation Projects in Morocco

Kuper, Marcel; Dionnet, Mathieu; Hammani, Ali; Bekkar, Younès; Garin, Patrice; Bluemling, Bettina

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“…Finally, Kuper et al (2009) contribute to this trend through their work of the joint design of shared drip irrigation projects among four groups of smallholder farmers in central Morocco. The authors describe how they designed a series of iterative and interactive participation activities that included farmer to farmer visits and role playing games, to support the farmers to better understand the implications of the design of their own joint drip irrigation projects.…”

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“…Kuper et al (2009) specifically relate their outcome evaluation to the socioeconomic context present in their case study, the situation of small-scale farmers in central Morocco, and speculate on longer term effects of the participatory activities.…”

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“…They also analyze the reason for this divergence. Kuper et al (2009) describe the application of participatory methods in a central Moroccan context to support small-scale farmers in designing a joint drip irrigation project. The authors outline and evaluate their experiences in developing a social learning environment to enhance the capacity of the farmers who manage the projects.…”

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“…Several author teams (Kuper et al 2009, Zorilla et al 2009, Hirsch et al 2010, Moellenkamp et al 2010, Selman et al 2010, Hoverman et al 2011) provide a detailed description of the framework they applied for evaluating the process management, output, and/ or outcome of the participatory approach in their case studies. Kuper et al (2009) specifically relate their outcome evaluation to the socioeconomic context present in their case study, the situation of small-scale farmers in central Morocco, and speculate on longer term effects of the participatory activities.…”

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Implementing Participatory Water Management: Recent Advances in Theory, Practice, and Evaluation

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ABSTRACT. Many current water planning and management problems are riddled with high levels of complexity, uncertainty, and conflict, so-called "messes" or "wicked problems." The realization that there is a need to consider a wide variety of values, knowledge, and perspectives in a collaborative decision making process has led to a multitude of new methods and processes being proposed to aid water planning and management, which include participatory forms of modeling, planning, and decision aiding processes. However, despite extensive scientific discussions, scholars have largely been unable to provide satisfactory responses to two pivotal questions: (1) What are the benefits of using participatory approaches?; (2) How exactly should these approaches be implemented in complex social-ecological settings to realize these potential benefits? In the study of developing social-ecological system sustainability, the first two questions lead to a third one that extends beyond the one-time application of participatory approaches for water management: (3) How can participatory approaches be most appropriately used to encourage transition to more sustainable ecological, social, and political regimes in different cultural and spatial contexts? The answer to this question is equally open. This special feature on participatory water management attempts to propose responses to these three questions by outlining recent advances in theory, practice, and evaluation related to the implementation of participatory water management. The feature is largely based on an extensive range of case studies that have been implemented and analyzed by cross-disciplinary research teams in collaboration with practitioners, and in a number of cases in close cooperation with policy makers and other interested parties such as farmers, fishermen, environmentalists, and the wider public. Key Words: adaptive management, collaborative decision making, evaluation, interactive planning, participatory modeling, participatory research, process design, public participation, social learning, stakeholder participation, water resources management FOCUS AND OBJECTIVES OF THE SPECIAL FEATUREMany current water planning and management problems are riddled with high levels of complexity, uncertainty, and conflict, so-called "messes" (Ackoff 1979) or "wicked problems" (Rittel and Webber 1973). These problems are increasingly encountered in the public policy sphere as resources become scarce, conflicts between water users and interest groups proliferate, and the ecological and social aspects of water planning become more prominent. As a result, it is increasingly rare that technical water managers have sufficient decision making authority and capacity to implement plans and water management actions by themselves. Furthermore, the realization that there is a need to consider a wide variety of values, knowledge, and perspectives in a collaborative decision making process has led to a multitude of new methods and processes being proposed to aid water planning and managem...

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“…"Model" is part of "method." A research method may involve the use of existing models as a tool, for example a hydrological model used for simulation and impact assessment (Bots andvan Daalen 2008, Bots et al 2010), or a role-playing game used for virtual testing (Kuper et al 2009) or as an advanced technique for collective interviewing (Bousquet et al 2002).…”

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A Framework for Clarifying “Participation” in Participatory Research to Prevent its Rejection for the Wrong Reasons

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When Groundwater Takes Over: Linking 40 Years of Agricultural and Groundwater Dynamics in a Large‐scale Irrigation Scheme in Morocco

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Chohin

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When large‐scale irrigation schemes were created, establishing viable, and closely supervised, medium‐sized family farms was considered essential to reap the benefits of state investments. This centralized development model was progressively dismantled, especially as farmers installed private tubewells relying less on surface water. Our aim is to analyse development pathways of family farms in the Tadla irrigation scheme (Morocco). Results showed that pathways were linked to groundwater access, but also to (informal) land markets, and off‐farm revenues. Groundwater enabled farmers to overcome reductions in surface water, and diversify crops. This concerned mainly the 36% large and medium‐sized farms. Such farmers also managed to increase their cropped area through land markets, as renting in land, and producing market crops, require capital. Groundwater showed limited redistributive capacities, as only 20% of small‐scale farmers obtained direct access. Farmers' off‐farm revenues sustained livelihoods, especially in dry years, but were generally not reinvested in agriculture. Over the past 40 years, groundwater has been mainly mobilized from phreatic aquifers, recharged by rainfall and surface irrigation. Their use seems sustainable, but farmers are exploring deeper aquifers while the administration encourages conversion to micro‐irrigation, thus reducing aquifer recharge and complicating the future of the groundwater economy. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Supporting the Shift from State Water to Community Water: Lessons from a Social Learning Approach to Designing Joint Irrigation Projects in Morocco

Cited by 55 publications

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Implementing Participatory Water Management: Recent Advances in Theory, Practice, and Evaluation

Implementing Participatory Water Management: Recent Advances in Theory, Practice, and Evaluation

A Framework for Clarifying “Participation” in Participatory Research to Prevent its Rejection for the Wrong Reasons

When Groundwater Takes Over: Linking 40 Years of Agricultural and Groundwater Dynamics in a Large‐scale Irrigation Scheme in Morocco

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Supporting the Shift from State Water to Community Water: Lessons from a Social Learning Approach to Designing Joint Irrigation Projects in Morocco

Cited by 55 publications

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Implementing Participatory Water Management: Recent Advances in Theory, Practice, and Evaluation

Implementing Participatory Water Management: Recent Advances in Theory, Practice, and Evaluation

A Framework for Clarifying &#8220;Participation&#8221; in Participatory Research to Prevent its Rejection for the Wrong Reasons

When Groundwater Takes Over: Linking 40 Years of Agricultural and Groundwater Dynamics in a Large‐scale Irrigation Scheme in Morocco

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