Ideologies. Development models and irrigated land tenure: the bagré irrigation project in Burkina faso

This paper discusses the history of irrigation development and related land allocation in the Bagré area in the South of Burkina Faso. It specifically analyses current processes at play as part of the recent Bagré Growth Pole Project implemented by the government of Burkina Faso with support of the...

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Main Authors: Venot, Jean-Philippe, Daré, William, Kabore, Etienne, Francoise, Gerard, Tapsoba, Abdoulaye, Idani, Donatien, Carboni, Simone
Format: Case Study
Language:Inglés
Published: UPR GREEN, CIRAD 2017
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/80213
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author Venot, Jean-Philippe
Daré, William
Kabore, Etienne
Francoise, Gerard
Tapsoba, Abdoulaye
Idani, Donatien
Carboni, Simone
author_browse Carboni, Simone
Daré, William
Francoise, Gerard
Idani, Donatien
Kabore, Etienne
Tapsoba, Abdoulaye
Venot, Jean-Philippe
author_facet Venot, Jean-Philippe
Daré, William
Kabore, Etienne
Francoise, Gerard
Tapsoba, Abdoulaye
Idani, Donatien
Carboni, Simone
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description This paper discusses the history of irrigation development and related land allocation in the Bagré area in the South of Burkina Faso. It specifically analyses current processes at play as part of the recent Bagré Growth Pole Project implemented by the government of Burkina Faso with support of the World Bank. The paper stresses the efforts made to put in place a fair and equitable compensation mechanism for the people being affected by the extension of the irrigated area downstream of the Bagré dam. The practicalities and thresholds considered in the compensation scheme are partly driven by the need to free some rainfed land to allow agro-entrepreneurs to settle in the area, financially contribute to the infrastructural costs of developing irrigation, and develop intensive and profitable irrigated production systems. This leads to socially constructing land scarcity, and threatens the future viability of smallholder farming. This happens even though the expressions of interests received to date by Bagrepole from agro-entrepreneurs appear little likely to trigger the virtuous development circle hoped for.
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spelling CGSpace802132023-03-14T08:26:50Z Ideologies. Development models and irrigated land tenure: the bagré irrigation project in Burkina faso Venot, Jean-Philippe Daré, William Kabore, Etienne Francoise, Gerard Tapsoba, Abdoulaye Idani, Donatien Carboni, Simone land allocation irrigation compensation This paper discusses the history of irrigation development and related land allocation in the Bagré area in the South of Burkina Faso. It specifically analyses current processes at play as part of the recent Bagré Growth Pole Project implemented by the government of Burkina Faso with support of the World Bank. The paper stresses the efforts made to put in place a fair and equitable compensation mechanism for the people being affected by the extension of the irrigated area downstream of the Bagré dam. The practicalities and thresholds considered in the compensation scheme are partly driven by the need to free some rainfed land to allow agro-entrepreneurs to settle in the area, financially contribute to the infrastructural costs of developing irrigation, and develop intensive and profitable irrigated production systems. This leads to socially constructing land scarcity, and threatens the future viability of smallholder farming. This happens even though the expressions of interests received to date by Bagrepole from agro-entrepreneurs appear little likely to trigger the virtuous development circle hoped for. 2017 2017-03-13T10:33:27Z 2017-03-13T10:33:27Z Case Study https://hdl.handle.net/10568/80213 en Open Access application/pdf UPR GREEN, CIRAD Venot, Jean Philippe; Dare, William; Kabore, Etienne; Francoise, Gerard; Tapsoba, Abdoulaye; Idani, Donatien; Carboni, Simone. 2017.Ideologies. Development models and irrigated land tenure: the bagré irrigation project in Burkina faso.Burkina Faso:UPR GREEN, CIRAD.32p.
spellingShingle land allocation
irrigation
compensation
Venot, Jean-Philippe
Daré, William
Kabore, Etienne
Francoise, Gerard
Tapsoba, Abdoulaye
Idani, Donatien
Carboni, Simone
Ideologies. Development models and irrigated land tenure: the bagré irrigation project in Burkina faso
title Ideologies. Development models and irrigated land tenure: the bagré irrigation project in Burkina faso
title_full Ideologies. Development models and irrigated land tenure: the bagré irrigation project in Burkina faso
title_fullStr Ideologies. Development models and irrigated land tenure: the bagré irrigation project in Burkina faso
title_full_unstemmed Ideologies. Development models and irrigated land tenure: the bagré irrigation project in Burkina faso
title_short Ideologies. Development models and irrigated land tenure: the bagré irrigation project in Burkina faso
title_sort ideologies development models and irrigated land tenure the bagre irrigation project in burkina faso
topic land allocation
irrigation
compensation
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/80213
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