Role-playing Game Development in Irrigation Management: A Social Learning Approach

• Published in: Water Governance for Sustainable Development pp. 259 - 274
• Main Authors: Chohin-Kuper, Anne, Ducrot, Raphaèle, Tonneau, Jean-Philippe, da Rocha Barros, Edolnice
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Routledge 2006
• Edition: 1
• Subjects: Africa; Irrigation; Learning; Sustainable development; Water management; Water resources; Water supply; Marketing Groups; Individual Irrigator; Smallholder Irrigation Schemes; Source Services; Civil Society; Specialist Market Strategies; Follow; CMA; Smallholder Irrigation; Smallholder Schemes; South Africa's Water Resource; WUA Member; Irrigation Schemes; Marketing Associations; RSA; Common Pool Resource; Irrigation Scheme Management; Diagrammatic Scheme Levels; Van Zyl; IMT; Delivery Agency; Chapter Author; Scheme Members; Domestic Users; Wider Issues
• ISBN: 9781844073191; 0415852021; 9780415852029; 184407319X
• DOI: 10.4324/9781849773768-18

In the São Francisco river valley in Brazil, irrigation schemes for smallholders were created in the 1960s in order to promote rural development. A little later, in the 1970s, entrepreneurial farms were expected to grow commercial crops, to enable the financial sustainability of these schemes (World Bank, 2002). A regional public development office, Companhia de Desenvolvimento dos Vales do São Francisco e do Parnaíba (CODEVASF, the development company of the São Francisco river valley), was in charge of the operation and maintenance of these schemes from the 1960s until water management transfer started in the 1980s.