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Communality in farmer managed irrigation systems: Insights from Spain, Ecuador, Cambodia and Mozambique

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  • Hoogesteger, Jaime
  • Bolding, Alex
  • Sanchis-Ibor, Carles
  • Veldwisch, Gert Jan
  • Venot, Jean-Philippe
  • Vos, Jeroen
  • Boelens, Rutgerd

Abstract

Worldwide farmer managed irrigation systems have provided crops for food, feed and the market for centuries. From high mountain environments to river valleys and deltas, in all continents people have organized to construct, use, maintain, transform and sustain irrigated agro-ecosystems. In this context it is important to better understand how these systems are sustained.

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  • Hoogesteger, Jaime & Bolding, Alex & Sanchis-Ibor, Carles & Veldwisch, Gert Jan & Venot, Jean-Philippe & Vos, Jeroen & Boelens, Rutgerd, 2023. "Communality in farmer managed irrigation systems: Insights from Spain, Ecuador, Cambodia and Mozambique," Agricultural Systems, Elsevier, vol. 204(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:agisys:v:204:y:2023:i:c:s0308521x22001883
    DOI: 10.1016/j.agsy.2022.103552
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