Perspectives of regional development of the office du Niger irrigation scheme in Mali

Kuper Marcel, Bélières Jean-François, Coulibaly Yacouba M.. 2002. Perspectives of regional development of the office du Niger irrigation scheme in Mali. In : Modernisation of water management. Technological and institutional improvements in irrigation and drainage : Proceedings. Seventh Netherlands National ICID Symposium, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, 4th of April 2002. Visser S.J. (ed.). ICID. Nijmegen : Royal Haskoning, 99-110. ISBN 90-74718-09-4 ICID Symposium. 7, Nijmegen, Pays-Bas, 4 Avril 2002.

Résumé : The recent success of agricultural production in the Office du Niger irrigation scheme in Mali, linked with the modernisation of this scheme over the past twenty years and facilitated by a favourable economic and institutional context, has prompted a debate on the opportunity to extend this 74,000 ha system. The views of the different stakeholders converge on the necessity to have more irrigated lands, but there is a passionate on-going debate on the objectives of the extension - producing more rice for domestic consumption and the export markets or providing the necessary conditions to ensure the viability of the existing farm holdings - and on the planning and implementation of this extension programme. This latter aspect relates principally to the financing of the extension programme, the land tenure status provided to farmers, sharing the water of the Niger river, and to the environmental impact of these extensions. The paper illustrates how the extension of the irrigation system should be integrated in a larger regional rural development planning process.

Mots-clés Agrovoc : programme d'irrigation, ressource en eau, développement régional, impact sur l'environnement, système de production

Mots-clés géographiques Agrovoc : Mali

Mots-clés complémentaires : Tenure foncière

Classification Agris : P10 - Ressources en eau et leur gestion

Auteurs et affiliations

• Kuper Marcel, CIRAD-TERA-SAV (FRA) ORCID: 0000-0002-1240-0592
• Bélières Jean-François, CIRAD-TERA-SAV (MLI) ORCID: 0000-0002-8399-9045
• Coulibaly Yacouba M., URDOC (MLI)

Source : Cirad - Agritrop (https://agritrop.cirad.fr/514322/)

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