Table of Contents Foreword Andy Keller, Jean-Marc Faurès and Peter Mollinga Panda or Hydra? The Untold Stories of Drip Irrigation Marcel Kuper, Jean-Philippe Venot et Margreet Zwarteveen
Section I: Setting the Scene: Diverse Perspectives on Drip Irrigation
1. From Obscurity to Prominence: How Drip Irrigation Conquered the World Jean-Philippe Venot 2. Decentering the Technology: Explaining the Drip Irrigation Paradox Margreet Zwarteveen 3. The Practice of Designing and Adapting Drip Irrigation Systems Harm Boesveld
Section II: Efficiency and Water Saving
4. Re-allocating Yet-to-be-Saved Water in Irrigation Modernization Projects, the Case of the Bittit Irrigation System, Morocco Saskia van der Koiij, Marcel Kuper, Charlotte de Fraiture, Bruce Lankford and Margreet Zwarteveen 5. Unraveling the Enduring Paradox of Increased Pressure on Groundwater Through Efficient Drip Irrigation Marcel Kuper, Fatah Ameur and Ali Hammani 6. Sour Grapes: Multiple Groundwater Enclosures in Morocco’s Saïss Region Lisa Bossenbroek, Marcel Kuper and Margreet Zwarteveen
Section III: Modernization and Agrarian Change
7. Creating Small Farm Entrepreneurs or Doing Away with Peasants? State Driven Implementation of Drip Irrigation in Chile Daniela Henriquez, Marcel Kuper, Manuel Escobar, Eduardo Chia and Claudio Vasquez 8. Conquering the Desert: Drip Irrigation in the Chavimochic System in Peru Jeroen Vos and Anaïs Marshall 9. An Elite Technology? Drip Irrigation, Agro-Export and Agricultural Policies in Guanajuato, Mexico Jaime Hoogesteger 10. Collective Drip Irrigation Projects between Technological Change and Social Construction: Some observations from Morocco Mostafa Errahj and Jan Douwe Van der Ploeg Section IV: Poverty and Development 11. Historical Perspective on Low-Cost Drip Irrigation Design and Promotion Robert Yoder and Brent Rowell 12. Low Cost Drip Irrigation in Zambia: Gendered Practices of Promotion and Use Gert Jan Veldwisch, Vera Borsboom, Famke Ingen-Housz, Margreet Zwarteveen, Nynke Post Uiterweer and Paul Hebinck 13. The Conundrum of Low Cost Drip Irrigation in Burkina Faso: Why Development Interventions that Have Little to Show for Continue Jonas Wanvoeke, Jean-Philippe Venot, Margreet Zwarteveen and Charlotte de Fraiture 14. The Mysterious Case of the Persistence of Donor-and-NGO-Driven Irrigation Kit Investments for African Smallholder Farmers Douglas J. Merrey
Section V: Alliances, Networks and Innovation
15. ‘Bricolage’ as an Everyday Practice of Contestation of Smallholders Engaging with Drip Irrigation Marcel Kuper, Maya Benouniche, Mohamed Naouri, Margreet Zwarteveen 16. The ‘Innovation Factory’: User-Led Incremental Innovation of Drip Irrigation Systems in the Algerian Desert Mohamed Naouri, Tarik Hartani and Marcel Kuper 17. Intermediaries in Drip Irrigation Innovation Systems: A Focus on Retailers in the Saïs Region in Morocco Caroline Lejars and Jean-Philippe Venot 18. Drip Irrigation and State Subsidies in India: Understanding the Success of the Gujarat Green Revolution Company Janwillem Liebrand Postscript: A Dialectic Inquiry in the World of Drip Irrigation Henk van den Belt
