Beyond the promises of technology: A review of the discourses and actors who make drip irrigation

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cg.contributor.crpWater, Land and Ecosystemsen_US
cg.coverage.regionAfricaen_US
cg.coverage.regionSouthern Asiaen_US
cg.creator.identifierShilp Verma: 0000-0001-5303-531Xen_US
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1002/ird.1839en_US
cg.identifier.wlethemeGender, Poverty and Institutionsen_US
cg.identifier.wlethemeLand and Water Productivityen_US
cg.issn1531-0353en_US
cg.issue2en_US
cg.journalIrrigation and Drainageen_US
cg.subject.wleAGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIONen_US
cg.subject.wleWATER AVAILABILITYen_US
cg.volume63en_US
dc.contributor.authorVenot, Jean-Philippeen_US
dc.contributor.authorZwarteveen, M.Z.en_US
dc.contributor.authorKuper, M.en_US
dc.contributor.authorBoesveld, H.en_US
dc.contributor.authorKooij, S. van deren_US
dc.contributor.authorWanvoeke, J.en_US
dc.contributor.authorBenouniche, M.en_US
dc.contributor.authorErrahj, M.en_US
dc.contributor.authorFraiture, Charlotte deen_US
dc.contributor.authorVerma, S.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2015-05-11T15:18:50Zen_US
dc.date.available2015-05-11T15:18:50Zen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/65993en_US
dc.titleBeyond the promises of technology: A review of the discourses and actors who make drip irrigationen_US
dcterms.abstractDrip irrigation has long been promoted as a promising way to meet today's world water, food and poverty challenges. In most scientific and policy documents, drip irrigation is framed as a technological innovation with definitive intrinsic characteristics—that of efficiency, productivity and modernity. Based on evidence from North and West Africa as well as South Asia, we show that there are multiple actors involved in shaping this imagery, the legitimacy of which largely stems from an engineering perspective that treats technology and potential as ‘truths’ that exist independently of the context of use. Rather than ascribing the advent of drip irrigation as a successful technology to intrinsic technical features, this paper proposes to see it as grounded in the ability drip irrigation has to lend itself to multiple contexts and discourses that articulate desirable futures. We thus adopt a view of technology whereby the ‘real’ (i.e. the drip irrigation hardware) acquires its characteristics only through, and within, the network of institutions, discourses and practices that enact it. Such a perspective sheds light on the iterative alignments that take place between hardware and context and treat these as inherent features, rather than externalities, of the innovation process. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.en_US
dcterms.accessRightsLimited Accessen_US
dcterms.audienceScientistsen_US
dcterms.available2014-03-14en_US
dcterms.bibliographicCitationVenot, J-P., Zwarteveen, M., Kuper, M., Boesveld, H., van der Kooij, S., Wanvoeke, J., Benouniche, M., Errahj, M., de Fraiture, C. and Verma, S. (2014). Beyond the promises of technology: A review of the discourses and actors who make drip irrigation. Irrigation and Drainage, 63 (2), pp. 186-194.en_US
dcterms.extentp. 186-194en_US
dcterms.issued2014-04en_US
dcterms.languageenen_US
dcterms.licenseCopyrighted; all rights reserveden_US
dcterms.publisherWileyen_US
dcterms.typeJournal Articleen_US

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