Integrating Small Scale Irrigation Development with the Existing Agricultural System: A Case Study of Small Holder Swamp Rice Schemes in Sierra Leone

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Type:	Working Paper
Author:	Knickel, Karlheinz
Date:	1992
Agency:	Overseas Development Institute, London
Series:	Irrigation Management Network (Africa Edition), Network Paper, no. 17
URI:	https://hdl.handle.net/10535/4653
Sector:	Agriculture Water Resource & Irrigation
Region:	Africa
Subject(s):	irrigation agriculture
Abstract:	"Effective agricultural development programmes are those that build on the strengths of existing farming systems and, at the same time, take due account of the specific natural, socio-cultural, institutional and economic environments. Correspondingly, development concepts need to be based on: • a thorough understanding of existing and, under the given conditions, efficient farming patterns; • an appreciation of farmers' needs, decision-making environment, indigenous resources, capabilities, experience and social structure; • the identification of suitable, ecologically stable, socially acceptable and economically attractive development opportunities - farmers are responsive to suitable opportunities."

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