Infrastructures and their roles and connections to and in territories and territorialization
processes have increasingly become objects of study in political geography scholarship. In …

The past decade has witnessed an intensifying focus on the development of irrigation in sub-
Saharan Africa. It follows a 20-year hiatus in the wake of disappointing irrigation …

Farmer‐led irrigation development (FLID) is a process where individual farmers play a
driving role in configuring agricultural technology practices, crop‐specific market linkages …

After a 30-year hiatus, large-scale irrigation projects have returned to the development
agenda in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). However, the magnitude and drivers of past schemes' …

Building on existing literature and the analysis of a portfolio of development projects (past
and under implementation), this paper reviews the evolution of water user associations …

In 2007, for the first time in human history, the world's population became more urban than
rural–a trend that is expected to increase in the coming decades, reaching 66% by 2030 …

Processes of technological change–innovation, transfer, adaptation, implementation–are
central to development. Yet they are typically black-boxed in research accounts so actors …

In recent decades, water has been subjected to different commodification and de-
collectivization processes. Increasingly, this is also affecting collective irrigation water …

As countries of sub-Saharan Africa expand irrigation to improve food security and foster
economic growth, it is important to quantify the malaria risk associated with this process …

Community participation, defined as engaging users of schemes in the decision-making
processes for the planning and implementation of irrigation projects, is critical for the …