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 Ecosystems
cg.coverage.regionAfrica
cg.coverage.regionSouthern Asia
cg.creator.identifierShilp Verma: 0000-0001-5303-531X
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1002/ird.1839en
cg.identifier.wlethemeGender, Poverty and Institutions
cg.identifier.wlethemeLand and Water Productivity
cg.issn1531-0353en
cg.issue2en
cg.journalIrrigation and Drainageen
cg.subject.wleAGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIONen
cg.subject.wleWATER AVAILABILITYen
cg.volume63en
dc.contributor.authorVenot, Jean-Philippeen
dc.contributor.authorZwarteveen, M.Z.en
dc.contributor.authorKuper, M.en
dc.contributor.authorBoesveld, H.en
dc.contributor.authorKooij, S. van deren
dc.contributor.authorWanvoeke, J.en
dc.contributor.authorBenouniche, M.en
dc.contributor.authorErrahj, M.en
dc.contributor.authorFraiture, Charlotte deen
dc.contributor.authorVerma, S.en
dc.date.accessioned2015-05-11T15:18:50Zen
dc.date.available2015-05-11T15:18:50Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/65993
dc.titleBeyond the promises of technology: A review of the discourses and actors who make drip irrigationen
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
dcterms.accessRightsLimited Access
dcterms.audienceScientistsen
dcterms.available2014-03-14
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
dcterms.extentp. 186-194en
dcterms.issued2014-04
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseCopyrighted; all rights reserved
dcterms.publisherWileyen
dcterms.typeJournal Article

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