You could have referred to the parallel study by your IWMI colleague Francois Molle and others on the Middle East experience -- far more negative than your study. Exprience in Africa is not very encouraging either. But I agree with your last point on the need for a paradigm shift, which a relatively younger person like you, "untainted" by past experience, should help lead. And whatever emerges in Asia's large schemes will be quite different from what emerges in other areas and types of schemes.
Looking back, as a "tainted" participant, I would point out a major reason for not achieving what had been hoped; the failure of governments to reform their own irrigation bureaucracies and policies. We see revolultions in many sectors but dinasaurs are alive and well in the irrigation sector in Asia, Middle East and Africa. Most of us always said this larger reform was a critical requirement for sustainable effective IMT. See chapter 5 in the Comprehensive Assessment book edited by David Molden.
Doug
You could have referred to the parallel study by your IWMI colleague Francois Molle and others on the Middle East experience -- far more negative than your study. Exprience in Africa is not very encouraging either. But I agree with your last point on the need for a paradigm shift, which a relatively younger person like you, "untainted" by past experience, should help lead. And whatever emerges in Asia's large schemes will be quite different from what emerges in other areas and types of schemes.
Looking back, as a "tainted" participant, I would point out a major reason for not achieving what had been hoped; the failure of governments to reform their own irrigation bureaucracies and policies. We see revolultions in many sectors but dinasaurs are alive and well in the irrigation sector in Asia, Middle East and Africa. Most of us always said this larger reform was a critical requirement for sustainable effective IMT. See chapter 5 in the Comprehensive Assessment book edited by David Molden.
Doug