Linking Performance and Collective Action—the Case of the Office du Niger Irrigation Scheme in Mali

2008 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 153-168 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Vandersypen ◽  
B. Verbist ◽  
A. C. T. Keita ◽  
D. Raes ◽  
J.-Y. Jamin
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
Irrigation Scheme ◽  
Office Du Niger

Simulating Water Management and Supply Effects at the Office du Niger Collective Canal Irrigation Scheme

2009 ◽  
Vol 135 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Klaartje Vandersypen ◽  
Dirk Raes ◽  
Jean-Yves Jamin
Keyword(s):  
Water Management ◽  
Irrigation Scheme ◽  
Canal Irrigation ◽  
Office Du Niger

From abundance to land scarcity

2020 ◽  
pp. 83-106
Author(s):  
Camilla Toulmin
Keyword(s):  
Sugar Cane ◽  
Satellite Images ◽  
Cereal Crops ◽  
Irrigation Scheme ◽  
Aerial Photos ◽  
Office Du Niger ◽  
Bird Damage ◽  
The Village ◽  
Second Wave ◽  
Village Population

How could the village of Dlonguébougou (DBG), which boasted abundant land in 1980, find itself land scarce just 25 years later? The answer lies in part with a tripling of the village population, the widespread use of oxen-drawn plough teams, and continued extensive patterns of farming. But, by far, the largest factor has been the arrival of many hundred incoming farmers from farther south, seeking land. Aerial photos and satellite images show the first wave in the late 1980s, from villages badly affected by bird damage to cereal crops, given their proximity to the irrigated lands of the Office du Niger, and the second wave unleashed by the establishment of N-Sukala, a sugar cane plantation 40 km to the southeast of DBG. Hundreds of families have lost their farmland to this irrigation scheme, and have migrated to seek land in neighbouring villages like DBG, putting further pressure on land.

Participatory foresight to address long-term issues in a large irrigation scheme. An example in Office du Niger, Mali

2017 ◽  
Vol 64 ◽  
pp. 13-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Hertzog ◽  
J.-C. Poussin ◽  
B. Tangara ◽  
J.-Y. Jamin
Keyword(s):  
Irrigation Scheme ◽  
Participatory Foresight ◽  
Office Du Niger ◽  
Large Irrigation

Farmers' motivation for collective action in irrigation: a statistical approach applied to the Office du Niger in Mali

2008 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
pp. 139-150 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Vandersypen ◽  
L. Bastiaens ◽  
A. Traoré ◽  
B. Diakon ◽  
D. Raes ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
Statistical Approach ◽  
Office Du Niger

Sustainability of farmers' organization of water management in the Office du Niger irrigation scheme in Mali

2006 ◽  
Vol 55 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Vandersypen ◽  
A. C. T. Keita ◽  
K. Kaloga ◽  
Y. Coulibaly ◽  
D. Raes ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Water Management ◽  
Irrigation Scheme ◽  
Office Du Niger

Comparison of schistosome transmission in a single- and a double-cropped area in the rice irrigation scheme, ‘Office du Niger’, Mali

Acta Tropica ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 91 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
G Coulibaly ◽  
M Diallo ◽  
H Madsen ◽  
A Dabo ◽  
M Traoré ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Irrigation Scheme ◽  
Rice Irrigation ◽  
Office Du Niger

Formal and informal decision making on water management at the village level: A case study from the Office du Niger irrigation scheme (Mali)

2007 ◽  
Vol 43 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Klaartje Vandersypen ◽  
Abdoulaye C. T. Keita ◽  
Y. Coulibaly ◽  
D. Raes ◽  
J.-Y. Jamin
Keyword(s):  
Water Management ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Irrigation Scheme ◽  
Village Level ◽  
Office Du Niger ◽  
The Village

African Military Labour and the Building of the Office du Niger Installations, 1925–1950

1986 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 533-551 ◽  
Author(s):  
Myron Echenberg ◽  
Jean Filipovich
Keyword(s):  
West Africa ◽  
Full Advantage ◽  
Public Works ◽  
Irrigation Scheme ◽  
French West Africa ◽  
Office Du Niger ◽  
French Soudan ◽  
Forced Labour ◽  
Military Draft ◽  
New System

In 1926, the Governor-General of French West Africa issued a decree allowing local administrations to use a portion of the annual military draft as labourers on public works programmes. The only administrations to take full advantage of this decree was that of the French Soudan, where work had already begun on the first phase of the vast Niger irrigation scheme now known as the Office du Niger. During the next twenty-five years, more than fifty thousand so-called ‘second-portion’ workers from Soudan were assigned to the Office du Niger for a period of three years' service. Ironically, this new system of forced labour to exploit the irrigated land.

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