Dynamiques institutionnelles des systèmes d’irrigation communautaires au Moyen Atlas, Maroc : de la communauté à l'association des irrigants?
(2009)
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- Yepez, Isabel
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- (en) The thesis poses again the question of the sustainability of the common property resources in mountains areas of Morocco. The research was made on community-managed irrigation systems and focused on the adaptations of traditional water management rules, depending on community members’ understanding of sustainability and on local and global dynamics. Global dynamics are related to the evolution of the state intervention model towards approaches that claim to be participatory and that are based on the set up of water user associations. Local dynamics mainly emerge with the changes in agrarian systems, especially the introduction of fruit trees on a large-scale. Based on cases studied in irrigation communities in the Middle Atlas, the research analyzed the institutional dynamics at play in the transition process in water management from community to irrigation farmer association. The analytical framework was based on a constructivist approach and used grids developed within the Common-Pool Resources Theory as heuristic tools. The field study focused on the process by which communities take control of the association and remodel it. Thus, it focused on qualitative data and observation in order to better understand the different dimensions of on-going changes. Actors were given a central place in the analysis. Results show that appropriation is possible: it is then the product of collective action, facilitated by the beneficial use of various local resources that together form a kind of social capital at village level. The water user association constitutes a graft on existing traditional management rules and becomes a “community-based association”. Once the association is appropriated by the community, it supports the improvement of local governance and makes community institutions more dynamic. In that way, it contributes to a redefinition of local development and to a change in the relations with outside organizations - that are still dominated by global society - towards more balanced relations.
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Bekkari, L. (2009). Dynamiques institutionnelles des systèmes d’irrigation communautaires au Moyen Atlas, Maroc : de la communauté à l’association des irrigants? https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/66673