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Valeurs d'usage ou performances techniques : comment apprécier le rôle des petits barrages en Afrique subsaharienne ?

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Title Valeurs d'usage ou performances techniques : comment apprécier le rôle des petits barrages en Afrique subsaharienne ?
 
Creator Venot, Jean-Philippe
Cecchi, Philippe
 
Subject small reservoirs
volta
evaluation
innovation
land use planning
sub-saharan africa
water reservoirs
 
Description Use-value or performance: Towards a better understanding of small reservoirs in sub- Saharan Africa
Small reservoirs are a reality of rural sub-Saharan Africa. They trigger technical and institutional innovations, appear to be in high demand among local communities, and remain popular on the agendas of national policy-makers and international development partners in spite of recurrent analyses highlighting that these systems function well below the expectations of their promoters. This paper proposes an analytical framework to understand this apparent contradiction. Local communities do make use of small reservoirs in many ways but not always as implied by policy discourses and development strategies. Social, eco-technical and managerial analyses would then not disclose the real use-value of these innovations at either the local or the regional (watershed) scales. Understanding the opportunities and risks linked to an intensification of the multiple uses of small reservoirs requires considering them as rural development and planning interventions. They induce changes in the relations that societies nurture with their environment and catalyze new and multiple claims and uses that sometimes appear conflictual and irreconcilable.
 
Date 2011-01-01
2013-12-23T03:42:39Z
2013-12-23T03:42:39Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Venot, J.P. and Cecchi, P., 2011. Valeurs d’usage ou performances techniques: comment apprécier le rôle des petits barrages en Afrique subsaharienne? Cahiers Agriculture 20(1‐2).
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/34276
PHASE 2
 
Language fr
 
Rights Open Access
 
Format application/pdf
 
Publisher Cahiers Agriculture
 
Source Cahiers Agricultures