A role playing game to address future water management issues in a large irrigated system: Experience from Mali

Autor: Bréhima Tangara, Thomas Hertzog, Jean-Christophe Poussin, Jean-Yves Jamin, Indé Kouriba
Přispěvatelé: Gestion de l'Eau, Acteurs, Usages (UMR G-EAU), Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD [France-Sud])-Centre international d'études supérieures en sciences agronomiques (Montpellier SupAgro)-Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad)-AgroParisTech, IER Niono, Mali, Institut d'Economie Rurale du Mali - CRRA Niono (IER - Niono), IER-IER, Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad)-Centre international d'études supérieures en sciences agronomiques (Montpellier SupAgro)-AgroParisTech-Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD [France-Sud]), Blin-Sarah, Sylvie
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2014
Předmět:
Decision support system
Coping (psychology)
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences
Water supply
02 engineering and technology
Périmètre irrigué
Mali
01 natural sciences
Grande exploitation agricole
F06 - Irrigation
020701 environmental engineering
Water Science and Technology
media_common
2. Zero hunger
Environmental resource management
Participation
Land grabbing
Role playing game
Investissement privé
Pratique culturale
Gestion des eaux
système d'aide à la décision
Irrigation
Méthodologie
Exploitation agricole familiale
media_common.quotation_subject
0207 environmental engineering
[SDV.SA.STA] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Agricultural sciences/Sciences and technics of agriculture
Soil Science
Developing country
Conservation de l'eau
[SDV.SA.STA]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Agricultural sciences/Sciences and technics of agriculture
C20 - Vulgarisation
P10 - Ressources en eau et leur gestion
[SDU.STU.HY]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Hydrology
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Earth-Surface Processes
business.industry
Scenario
Environmental economics
Water management
Interdependence
Gestion foncière
[SDU.STU.HY] Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Hydrology
Land development
U30 - Méthodes de recherche
business
Agronomy and Crop Science
Zdroj: Agricultural Water Management
Agricultural Water Management, Elsevier Masson, 2014, 137, pp.1--14
ISSN: 0378-3774
Popis: Erratum paru dans Agricultural Water Management (2013) 127 p. 124-126; International audience; This paper reports on an experiment undertaken in the Office du Niger irrigation scheme (100,000 ha) in Mali, where the unprecedented development of irrigation driven by large scale investors is dramatically increasing uncertainty surrounding future water management. Coping with future uncertainty in irrigated systems is essential but existing approaches based on scenarios and decision support systems are mainly expert-driven, making them difficult for local users to understand and use on their own. The aim of this study was to design a participatory approach to help local and national stakeholders understand the possible future consequences for water management of scenarios they had built themselves in previous workshops. A role playing game called FOWIS (Future of water in irrigated systems) was designed for this purpose. Two groups (decision makers and local actors) took part and played the roles of family farmers, large scale investors, or the manager of the irrigation scheme. Playing FOWIS increased the players' awareness of each others' strategies and of land development issues, crop choices, and water management. In the local actors' group, applying land development strategies and choosing crops while failing to account for the inevitable increase in water demand led to serious water crises: total demand exceeded water availability by 75%, and the indicator of adequacy dropped to 0.5 for many players. In the decision makers' group, applying a collective strategy to limit water demand, as stipulated in their best case scenario, resulted in an equitable water supply. In this paper, we show how the game enabled participants to understand the interdependencies between future land development, crop choices, and water management, and, in addition, helped them design innovative strategies to limit water demand or to allocate water fairly. Indirectly, it also led them to question their current practices, choices and strategies that would have been impossible in the current context of open tensions concerning land and water allocation. The FOWIS experiment also provided useful information for the further development of non-computer-assisted role playing games in highly uncertain contexts, which is the case of most irrigated systems in developing countries. RPGs that take place in a virtual world could increase stakeholders' capacities to take action with respect to real world issues. (Résumé d'auteur)
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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