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Cah. Agric.
Volume 26, Number 4, Juillet-Août 2017
Innovation Platforms and Projects to support smallholder development - Experiences from sub-Saharan Africa. Coordonnateurs : Janice Jiggins, Jean-Yves Jamin
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Article Number | 45003 | |
Number of page(s) | 7 | |
Section | Études originales / Original Studies | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/cagri/2017030 | |
Published online | 11 August 2017 |
Article de recherche / Research Article
Contribution of an innovation platform to change the management of collective irrigation: a case study from the Office du Niger (Mali)
Contribution d'une plateforme d'innovation au changement dans la gestion de l'irrigation collective : un exemple à l'Office du Niger (Mali)
Institut polytechnique rural de formation et de recherche appliquée (IPR/IFRA),
Katibougou, Mali
* Corresponding author: lsno2002@yahoo.fr
In the Office du Niger large rice farming irrigation scheme in Mali, water management has been a permanent source of tension between the smallholder tenants and the administration. The transfer of tertiary canal maintenance to the tenant farmers was expected to improve water management but, in practice, that rather led to deterioration. An innovation platform, erected by the CoS-SIS (Convergence of Sciences – Strengthening Innovation Systems) Program, reached a consensual agreement to transfer the maintenance of tertiary canals to the tenant producers, and updated the Contrat Plan expropriation rules for failure to pay water fees as well as many other key dispositions ruling duties and responsibilities for all parties: farmers, Office du Niger agents and the State.
Résumé
Dans les vastes rizières de l'Office du Niger au Mali, la gestion de l'eau a longtemps été une source de tension entre les petits exploitants et l'administration. Le transfert partiel de cette gestion, avec une répartition de la maintenance des canaux entre les petits exploitants, l'Office du Niger et l'État n'a pas vraiment permis d'atteindre de meilleurs résultats. Une plateforme d'innovation établie par le programme CoS-SIS (Convergence of Sciences – Strengthening Innovation Systems) a abouti à un accord consensuel conférant le nettoyage des canaux tertiaires aux petits exploitants. Elle a aussi actualisé les règles d'expulsion des exploitants en cas de non-paiement de la redevance eau et a modifié les dispositions clefs du Contrat Plan qui régit les tâches et les responsabilités des exploitants, du personnel de l'Office du Niger et de l'État.
Key words: land management / water management / institutional innovation / innovation platform
Mots clés : gestion de l'eau / innovation institutionnelle / plateforme d'innovation
© L. Soumano and M. Traoré, Published by EDP Sciences 2017
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