Overlapping Groundwater Service Markets in a Palm Grove in the Algerian Sahara

Autor: Marcel Kuper, Sami Bouarfa, Meriem Farah Hamamouche, Tarik Hartani
Přispěvatelé: Gestion de l'Eau, Acteurs, Usages (UMR G-EAU), Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-AgroParisTech-Institut national d’études supérieures agronomiques de Montpellier (Montpellier SupAgro), Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro)-Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE), Institut Agronomique et Vétérinaire Hassan II - IAV (MOROCCO) (IAV), CENTRE UNIVERSITAIRE DE TIPAZA DZA, Partenaires IRSTEA, Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA)-Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA)
Rok vydání: 2020
Předmět:
GROUNDWATER
AFRIQUE DU NORD
Water table
Natural resource economics
0208 environmental biotechnology
02 engineering and technology
Craft
State (polity)
Economics
Groupe éthnique
GROUNDWATER PROVIDERS
SAHARA ALGÉRIEN
POWER RELATIONS
media_common
STATE INTERVENTIONS
2. Zero hunger
OASIS
Marché
04 agricultural and veterinary sciences
Communauté rurale
6. Clean water
Economy
[SDE]Environmental Sciences
Besoin en eau
Commercialisation
Ressource en eau
Intervention de l'état
Irrigation
Agriculteur
media_common.quotation_subject
Soil Science
Conservation de l'eau
E50 - Sociologie rurale
Eau du sol
P10 - Ressources en eau et leur gestion
ALGERIE
Sociologie rurale
020801 environmental engineering
Intervention (law)
Service (economics)
040103 agronomy & agriculture
0401 agriculture
forestry
and fisheries
WATER SERVICE MARKETS
Monopoly
Agronomy and Crop Science
Groundwater
Zdroj: Irrigation and Drainage
Irrigation and Drainage, Wiley, 2020, 69 (S1), pp.155-167. ⟨10.1002/ird.2178⟩
ISSN: 1531-0361
1531-0353
DOI: 10.1002/ird.2178
Popis: Groundwater service markets are important and dynamic institutions that provide water to a wide range of farmers in many regions. However, these institutions represent arenas of complex and often antagonistic relations, which determine which farmers gain access to water and how. This study analyses the emergence and functioning of groundwater service markets from a historical perspective to advance the understanding of the role of social power games in shaping these institutions. The study was conducted in the Sidi Okba oasis in the Algerian Sahara, where over recent decades, four (in)formal, often overlapping, groundwater service markets have emerged. These markets were shaped progressively by socio-ethnic antagonism, state intervention and economic competition between water sellers. By continuously adjusting these institutions, the highly diverse irrigation community prevented the emergence of a monopoly in groundwater sales and maintained the balance of power between water sellers and buyers by countering possible control of groundwater access by a single socio-ethnic or economic group. The demonstrated ability of the irrigation community to craft rules to ensure these groundwater service markets function should encourage public actors to mobilize this capacity to deal with the drop in water tables, which is one adverse outcome of the ‘success’ of these markets. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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