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This chapter examines four aid-funded West African irrigation projects. The two principal case studies, one sponsored by the People’s Republic of China, the other by the United States, are in Guinea-Bissau. Two other irrigation projects sponsored by the PRC in Ghana will also be briefly examined. First, the performance of aid to African irrigation will be discussed at a general level.
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OECD, Development Co-operation 1986 Chairman’s Report, Paris, 1987, Table IX.-4, p. 152. This is according to the OECD ‘core definition’ of aid to agriculture, OECD, op. cit., p. 155. However, the bulk of bilateral DAC aid to irrigation is provided by two countries: the United States and Japan. Approximately 37 per cent of IDA assistance to agriculture is for irrigation and land development, as is about 30 per cent of IBRD (World Bank).
FAO, Irrigation in Africa South of the Sahara, FAO Technical Paper No. 5, Rome, 1986, p. 15.
Jon R. Moris and Derrick J. Thom, African Irrigation Overview (Summary), USAID/Utah State University, October 1985, p. vii.
FAO, Irrigation in Africa South of the Sahara, 1986, Table 3, p. 87. No equivalent data was available for Guinea-Bissau.
Carolyn M. Somerville, Drought and Aid in the Sahel (Boulder, Colorado and London: Westview Press, 1986).
Jon R. Moris, and Derrick J. Thom, African Irrigation Overview, USAID, WMS Report 37, Utah State University, December 1987;
John D. Brondolo, Irrigated Agriculture in the Sahel: The Donor Experience, USAID, January 1985;
P. N. G. van Steeklenburg and G. Zijlstra, Evaluation of Irrigation Projects Sponsored by the European Economic Community, ILRI, Wageningen, The Netherlands, December 1985.
John D. Brondolo, Irrigated Agriculture in the Sahel, USAID, January 1985, p. 2.
Frederick L. Hotes, ‘The Experience of the World Bank’, in Ian D. Carruthers, Aid for the Development of Irrigation, OECD, Paris, 1983, pp. 138–39.
P. N. G. van Steeklenburg and G. Zijlstra, Evaluation of Irrigation Projects Sponsored by the European Economic Community, ILRI, Wageningen, The Netherlands, December 1985, p. 65.
FAO, Irrigation in Africa South of the Sahara, FAO Technical Paper No. 5, Rome, 1986, p. 39.
Jon R. Moris and Derrick J. Thom, African Irrigation Overview (Summary), USAID/Utah State University, Logan, Utah, October 1985, p. 78.
John Brondolo, Irrigated Agriculture in the Sahel: The Donor Experience, USAID, January 1985, p. 24.
One study describing recent reforms to promote peasant participation and control of Senegal’s SAED project is found in Guy Belloncle’s Participation Paysanne et Aménagements Hydro-Agricoles, Éditions Karthala, Paris, 1985, pp. 57–106, Chapter 4 ‘L’Experience Sénégalaise: Petits et grands périmetres sur le fleuve Sénégal’.
World Bank, Ghana: Irrigation Subsector Review, Western Africa Projects Department, Washington, 1986 p. 3.
FAO, Irrigation in Africa South of the Sahara, 1986, Table 3, p. 87. The decline was from 16000 ha in 1974 to 10000 ha in 1982.
M. Lamine Serigne Diop, Ministre du Développement rural, cited in Paul Mathieu, ‘L’aménagement de la Vallée du fleuve Sénégal’, in Mondes en Développement, Tome 13, No. 52, 1985, p. 665 (author’s translation).
Guy Belloncle, Participation Paysanne et Aménagements Hydro-Agricoles, Éditions Karthala, Paris, 1985, p. 58.
FAO, Irrigation in Africa South of the Sahara, 1986, Table 18, p. 120. Production cost figures were provided by ‘Debi-Lampsar’, SAED/World Bank, Dakar, Senegal, 24 June 1986.
Claude Freud, Quelle Coopération? Un bilan de l’aide au développement, Éditions Karthala, Paris, 1988, p. 126 Taux d’auto-suffisance’.
About two-thirds of rice in Senegal is consumed in the Cap-Vert national capital region, based on statistics supplied by SAED (Société Nationale D’Aménagement et D’Exploitation des Terres du Delta du Fleuve Senegal), St Louis, Senegal, 5 June 1986. See also Kathryn Craven and A. Hasan Tuluy, ‘Rice Policy in Senegal’, in Scott R. Pearson et al., Rice in West Africa: Policy and Economics (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1981), pp. 237–38.
FAO, Irrigation in Africa South of the Sahara, 1986, p. 19.
Jon Moris, ‘Irrigation as a Privileged Solution in African Development’, Development Policy Review, Vol. 5, 1987, p. 100.
FAO, Irrigation in Africa South of the Sahara, 1986, p. 47.
P. N. G. van Steeklenburg and G. Zijlstra, Evaluation of Irrigation Projects Sponsored by the European Economic Community, ILRI, Wageningen, The Netherlands, 1985, p. 90.
Mary Tiffen, Improving the Socio-Economic and Institutional Content of Irrigation Feasibility Studies, Overseas Development Institute for the Overseas Development Administration, London, 1987, p. 2.
International Institute for Land Reclamation and Improvement (ILRI), ‘Some Aspects of Irrigation Development in Sub-Saharan Africa’, Wageningen, The Netherlands, 1987.
FAO, Irrigation in Africa South of the Sahara, 1986, Table 18, p. 120.
Michael Lipton, Improving Agricultural Aid Impact on Low-Income Countries, OECD, Development Co-operation Directorate, Paris, 1985, p. 13.
World Bank, Ghana: Irrigation Subsector Review, Western Africa Projects Department, Washington, 1986, p. 12.
J. Moris and D. Thom, African Irrigation Overview (Summary), USAID/Utah State University, 1985, p. 45.
Overseas Development Administration (Ev. 309), 1984, cited by Mary Tiffen in Improving the Socio-Economic and Institutional Context of Irrigation Feasibility Studies, Overseas Development Institute for the Overseas Development Administration, 1987, p. 1.
Jon Moris and Derrick Thom, African Irrigation Overview: Main Report, USAID/Utah State University, Logan, Utah, December, 1987, p. 2.
République de Guinée-Bissau, Plan National de la Securité Alimentaire, ‘Importations des Principaux Produits Alimentaires’, Tableau 4, 1986.
República da Guiné-Bissau, Secretario de Estado do Piano e Cooperação Internacional, ‘Mesa Redonda de Bissau’, Vol. 1, 1983, p. 34; and
Galli and Jones, Guinea-Bissau: Politics, Economics and Society (London: Frances Pinter, 1987), p. 114.
Rosemary E. Galli and Jocelyn Jones, Guinea-Bissau: Politics, Economics and Society (London: Frances Pinter, 1987), see especially Chapter 6, pp. 109–32.
USAID, ‘Guinea-Bissau Rice Production’, Project Evaluation, 657–0009, 12 December 1984, p. 24.
World Bank, Sub-Saharan Africa: From Crisis to Sustainable Growth, Washington, 1989, Table 7, p. 230.
USAID, ‘Guinea-Bissau Rice Production’, Project Evaluation, December 1984, p. 24. For a detailed survey of rice-production techniques and policies in West Africa see
Scott R. Pearson et al., Rice in West Africa (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1981).
Dr Allen Jedlicka, ‘Possible Alternative Technologies for Cultivation’, University of Northern Iowa/Aurora Associates, Inc., Washington, D.C., 15 July 1982, p. 1.
Dr Allen Jedlicka, op. cit.; and Kit D. Macy, ‘Sociological Analysis of the Contuboel Rice Production Project in Guinea-Bissau’, Aurora Associates, Washington, D.C., March 1983.
Guinea-Bissau, Ministry of Rural Development and Fisheries, DEPA, ‘Internal Evaluation of the Project Geba River Valley Rice Production’, October 1984, p. 2.
Dr Allen Jedlicka, ‘Possible Alternative Technologies for Cultivation’, Aurora Associates Inc., Washington, July 1982, p. 16.
Ibid., and interviews, Linda Smith, Project Coordinator, July 30 1986 and
D. Broussard, Rice Production Specialist, 31 July 1986.
Kit. D. Macy. ‘Sociological Analysis of the Contuboel Rice Project in Guinea-Bissau’, Aurora Associates, Washington, D.C., March 1983, pp. 44–45.
Interviews, Dr N. Varda, Extension Specialist, 30 July 1986 and
D. Broussard, Rice Production Specialist, 31 July 1986. The agricultural engineer, a Senegalese living in the United States, was released from the project after the 1984 evaluation.
Interview, Donald L. Broussard, Rice Production Specialist, Guinea-Bissau Rice Production Project, Contuboel, Guinea-Bissau, 31 August 1986.
‘Annual Review of Guinea-Bissau Rice Production Project’, Memorandum: From L. Smith, Project Co-ordinator to Tim Roche, Project Administrator, March 12 1986, and production statistics supplied by Donald Broussard, Rice Production Specialist, GBRP Project, Contuboel, 31 July 1986.
Interview, Donald Broussard, Rice Production Specialist, GBRP Project, Contuboel, 31 July 1986.
March Report, Donald Broussard, Rice Production Specialist, GBRP Project, March 1986.
‘Summary of Activities’, Donald Broussard, Rice Production Specialist, GBRP Project Report, June 1986.
Interview, Donald Broussard, Rice Production Specialist, GBRP Project, Contuboel, 31 July 1986.
Interview, Linda Smith, Project Co-ordinator, GBRP Project, Contuboel, 30 July 1986.
Memorandum 176, Project 0009, Linda Smith, Project Co-ordinator to Tim Rosche, Project Administrator, 12 March 1986, p. 1.
Interview, Linda Smith, Project Co-ordinator, 30 July 1986.
An in depth analysis of the social organization and divisions of labour of the local peasantry is found in Kit D. Macy, ‘Sociological Analysis of the Contuboel Rice Production Project in Guinea-Bissau’, Aurora Associates Inc., revised March 1983.
Interview, Dr Naraina Varda, Extension Specialist, GBRP Project, 31 July 1986.
USAID, ‘Guinea-Bissau Rice Production’, Project Evaluation, 657–0009, 12 December 1984, p. 4.
Dr Allan Jedlicka, ‘Possible Alternative Technologies for Cultivation’, University of Northern Iowa/Aurora Associates, Inc., Washington D.C., March 1982.
Interview, Donald Broussard, Rice Production Specialist, GBRP Project, Contuboel, 31 July 1986.
Ministry of Rural Development and Fisheries, DEPA, Internal Evaluation of the Project Geba River Valley Rice Production, October 1984, p. 2.
USAID, ‘Briefing Paper — Guinea-Bissau’, Bissau, 1986, p. 4.
Interview, Dr Naraina Varda, Extension Specialist, GBRP Project, Contuboel, 31 July 1986.
República da Guiné-Bissau, Ministério da Coordenação Economica, Piano e Cooperação International, ‘Memorando da Visita do 1 Vice-Presidente a República Popular da China’, Bissau, Março 1985, p. 1. Neither the Guineans nor Chinese were willing to provide any project documentation regarding the financial conditions of the project. It is known, however, that in the most recent PRC loan provided to Guinea-Bissau, funding for a group of projects of a total value of $10.5 million (30 million Yuan) was provided at no interest and with a ‘considerable’ grace period. Interview,
Mr Chen an Wong, Second Secretary (Economic), Embassy of the PRC, 8 July 1986.
Interview, Mr Nabaque Fuabe, Deputy Director, and Head of Seed Multiplication (Production), CREC, 2 August 1986.
Interview, Mr Fernando Quadé, Director, Carantaba Rice Extension Centre, 2 August 1986.
Interview, Mr Shu, Director, Chinese Technical Assistance Team, Carantaba, 2 August 1986.
Interview, Mr Fernando Quadé, Director, CREC, Carantaba, 2 August 1986.
Interview, Mr Fernando Quadé, Director, CREC, 2 August 1986.
Interviews, Mr Fernando Quadé, Director, CREC, and Mr Shu, Director, Chinese Technical Assistance Team, Carantaba, 2 August 1986.
Interview, Mr Shu, Director, Chinese Technical Assistance Team, Carantaba, 2 August 1986.
Interview, Mr Nabaque Fuabe, Deputy Director and Head of Seed Multiplication (Production), CREC, 2 August 1986.
Interview, Mr Fernando Quadé, Director, CREC, and Mr Shu, Director, Chinese Technical Assistance Team, Carantaba, 2 August 1986.
Interview, Mr Fernando Quadé, Director, CREC, 2 August 1986.
Interview, Mr Shu, Director, Chinese Technical Assistance Team, Carantaba, 2 August 1986.
Interview, Mr Fernando Quadé, Director, CREC, 2 August 1986.
Interview, Mr Nabaque Fuabe, Deputy Director and Head of Seed Multiplication (Production), CREC, 2 August 1986.
Interview, Gong, Guizhi, Third Economic Secretary, Embassy of the People’s Republic of China, Bissau, 29 July 1988. The project interpreter also emphasized her difficult time at the project. Interview,
Miss Xia, Interpreter, Chinese Technical Assistance Team, Carantaba, 2 August 1986.
Interview, Gong, Guizhi, Third Economic Secretary, Embassy of People’s Republic of China, Bissau, 29 July 1986.
Interview, Mr R. B. K. Fianu, Project Manager, Afife Irrigation Project, Afife, Ghana, 8 September 1986.
Interview, Mr Maxwell K. Affram, Deputy Chief Executive, IDA, 2 September 1986.
World Bank, Ghana: Irrigation Subsector Review, West African Projects Department, Washington, 1986, Annex, II-B, p. 1.
Interview, Mr Maxwell K. Affram, Deputy Chief Executive, IDA, Accra, Ghana, 17 September 1986.
‘Afife Irrigation Project’, Questionnaire Response, R. B. K. Fianu, Project Manager, Afife Irrigation Project, September 1986; and interview, Afife, 8 September 1986.
Interview, R. B. K. Fianu, Project Manager, Afife Irrigation Project, Afife, 8 September 1986.
J. Koffi Frimpong, Director, IDA, Accra, Ghana, 1 September 1986.
Interview, R. B. K. Fianu, Project Manager, Afife Irrigation Project, Afife, 8 September 1986.
Interview, Mr J. Koffi Frimpong, Director, IDA, Accra, Ghana, 1 September 1986.
Interview, Mr J. Koffi Frimpong, Director, IDA, Accra, Ghana, 1 September 1986; and
Mr Maxwell Affram, Deputy Chief Executive, IDA, Accra, 2 September 1986.
Interview, Mr J. Koffi Frimpong, Director, IDA, Accra, Ghana, 1 September 1986.
Jon Moris and Derrick Thom, African Irrigation Overview: Main Report, USAID/Utah State University, Logan, Utah, December 1987, p. 2.
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Bobiash, D. (1992). South-South Aid for Irrigation. In: South-South Aid. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-11623-2_8
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