Wasting the rain: rivers, people and planning in Africa
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| adam_text | Wasting the rain
Rivers, people and planning
in Africa
W M Adams
Earthscan Publications Ltd, London
Contents
List of figures and tables
Preface
Acknowledgements
1 Introduction
Wasting die rain
African rivers and wedands
Wetlands and development in Africa210
% (Changing Africa
Africa discovered
Economic development in Africa
Agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa
Experts in Africa
Indigenous technical knowledge
3 The hard earth
Using Africa s drylands
Uncertain rain
Dryland agriculture
Dryland pastoralism
Desertification
Changing climate
Measuring die rain
Implications for development
4 Using Africa s wetlands
Wedands in dry lands
Indigenous irrigation
Farming wedands
Floodplain irrigation
Stream diversion
Fishing and grazing in floodplain wedands
The integration of floodplain resource use
5 Dreams and schemes: planning river development
The eye of the beholder
Grand designs
Water resource development
6 WASTING THE RAIN
River basin planning 113
River basin planning in Africa 116
River basin planning in Nigeria 118
Ideology and achievement in river basin planning 123
6 Binding the rivers 128
Losing the flood 128
Dams and reservoirs: gains and losses 131
Dams and floods 135
Dams and floodplain ecology 137
Dams and floodplain farming 144
Dams and floodplain fishing 145
Dams and floodplain resource conflicts 147
Dams and planning disasters 150
7 Watering the savanna 155
Irrigation: part of the solution or part of die problem? 155
Irrigation in Africa 157
The large-scale irrigation experiment 162
Planning irrigation 167
Managing irrigation 171
People on irrigation schemes 176
Small-scale irrigation 180
Agribusiness: die future of irrigation? 184
8 Water, people and planning 189
Wetlands and water resource development 189
Intervening in indigenous irrigation 190
Redesigning irrigation schemes 196
Running the rivers 200
Managing Africa s wedands 206
Network planning: experts helping experts 209
Making it happen 212
Further Reading 215
Notes 219
Index 251
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