The fluid nature of water grabbing: the on-going contestation of water distribution between peasants and agribusinesses in Nduruma, Tanzania

Bont, Chris de; Veldwisch, Gert Jan; Komakech, Hans C.; Vos, Jeroen

doi:10.1007/s10460-015-9644-5

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“…Smallholders in these areas experience conflicts over water with competing users. These can be conflicts between smallholders and international agribusinesses or between smallholders and cities (de Bont et al 2016;Harrison and Mdee 2017). Whereas conflicts can sometimes be solved by shifting from surface water to groundwater resources, this is likely to present a superficial, shortterm solution when groundwater is feeding into the river's baseflow (de Bont et al 2016).…”

Section: Opportunities and Threats In The Ssa Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

Water user associations: a review of approaches and alternative management options for Sub-Saharan Africa

Aarnoudse¹,

Closas²,

Lefore³

2018

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Working PapersThe publications in this series record the work and thinking of IWMI researchers, and knowledge that the Institute's scientific management feels is worthy of documenting. This series will ensure that scientific data and other information gathered or prepared as a part of the research work of the Institute are recorded and referenced. Working Papers could include project reports, case studies, conference or workshop proceedings, discussion papers or reports on progress of research, country-specific research reports, monographs, etc. Working Papers may be copublished, by IWMI and partner organizations.Although most of the reports are published by IWMI staff and their collaborators, we welcome contributions from others. Each report is reviewed internally by IWMI staff. The reports are published and distributed both in hard copy and electronically (www.iwmi.org) and where possible all data and analyses will be available as separate downloadable files. Reports may be copied freely and cited with due acknowledgment. About IWMIIWMI's mission is to provide evidence-based solutions to sustainably manage water and land resources for food security, people's livelihoods and the environment. IWMI works in partnership with governments, civil society and the private sector to develop scalable agricultural water management solutions that have a tangible impact on poverty reduction, food security and ecosystem health.

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Section: Opportunities and Threats In The Ssa Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

Water user associations: a review of approaches and alternative management options for Sub-Saharan Africa

Aarnoudse¹,

Closas²,

Lefore³

2018

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“…With its plans to unlock its development potential particularly through the agricultural sector, Tanzania has been intensifying the use of its resources to increase food production [5,6]. Tanzania has developed numerous irrigation development programmes [7][8][9][10], and is counting on foreign direct investment (channelled through the Tanzania Investment Centre) to support the development of the agricultural sector, in particular the development of modern irrigation systems for sustained growth, poverty reduction and rural development [11]. their access to water is often constrained, so that they have no choice but to be more careful with their 'supply'" [31] (p. 38).…”

Section: Infrastructural Modernisation and Formalisation Of Water Accessmentioning

confidence: 99%

Water Users Associations in Tanzania: Local Governance for Whom?

Richards

2019

Water

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In order to implement Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) according to good practice, governments and development agencies have promoted the setting-up of Water Users Associations (WUAs) as a broadly applicable model for water management at the local level. WUAs are promoted as key to the rolling out of IWRM principles through a participative process. Using intensive qualitative data, this paper discusses Tanzanian WUAs in light of the Regulatory Framework within which they operate. I argue that although the government’s objectives are to achieve an equitable and sustainable allocation of water resources, the formalisation of water allocation has led to the exclusion of specific water users. This paper focuses on the Great Ruaha River Catchment (GRRC), where water scarcity has led to competition between investors and small-scale water users. The GRRC is an environment in which formal and informal practices overlap, due to legal pluralism and the incremental implementation of water governance frameworks. This study calls for a reassessment of the role of WUAs in Tanzania. There is a clear gap between the theoretical clarity of tasks handed to WUAs (particularly their role in formalising access to water), and the messiness of everyday practice.

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“…The same goes for the liberal, individualistic equating of water‐development work and ‘jobs’. The Report seems entirely unaware that water control is necessarily collective in the world's vernacular, community‐managed water systems, where ‘work’ in water control is not related to ‘jobs’ but refers to creating and maintaining customary water rights and strengthening human/water bonds (Boelens and Vos, ; de Bont et al., ). For example, Boelens and Vos () systemize evidence from many regions in the world — Latin America, Asia, Africa, Europe and North America — where, historically and currently, thousands of smallholder communities invest their workforces to construct, repair and maintain irrigation and drinking water facilities, and thereby (simultaneously and as a direct consequence) build family and community water rights.…”

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“…Bakker et al, forthcoming 2018;Boelens and Vos, 2012); and (3) how water scarcity in the Report is treated as a 'technical fact', while a considerable scholarly literature has shown that water scarcity is socially produced by legislation, allocation practices and culturally created demands (e.g. de Bont et al, 2016;Mena-Vásconez et al, 2016).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%