Adams, W. and Watson, E. and Mutiso, S. (1997) Water, Rules and Gender: Water Rights in an Indigenous Irrigation System, Marakwet, Kenya. Development and Change, 28 (4). pp. 707-730.
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Abstract
The management of indigenous irrigation systems has received increasing attention both from social science researchers and from those development agents who seek to change them, or to find in them a model for organizing newly developed irrigation schemes. This article discusses how water is allocated within one such irrigation system, the hill furrow irrigation of the Marakwet escarpment in Kenya. It describes the ‘formal rules’ of water rights, giving particular attention to the issue of gender with respect to water rights. It then discusses the ‘working rules’ relevant to water allocation, involving various informal practices of sharing, buying and stealing. The implications of this complexity for understanding the operation of indigenous farmer-managed irrigation systems are examined.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Author Affiliation: | Department of Geography, University of Cambridge |
| Subjects: | Social Sciences > Agricultural Economics |
| Divisions: | General |
| Depositing User: | Mr Siva Shankar |
| Date Deposited: | 14 Mar 2014 10:27 |
| Last Modified: | 14 Mar 2014 10:27 |
| Official URL: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-7660.00061 |
| URI: | http://eprints.icrisat.ac.in/id/eprint/12882 |
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