期刊
MOUNTAIN RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
卷 38, 期 2, 页码 104-113出版社
MOUNTAIN RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT
DOI: 10.1659/MRD-JOURNAL-D-17-00085.1
关键词
Irrigation agriculture; food supply; hydrosocial arrangements; community-based natural resource management; collaborative action; post-socialist transformation; Central Asia; High Asia
资金
- German Federal Ministry of Education and Research [01DK15010]
- Volkswagen Foundation [85862]
- University Alliance for Sustainability
In the Pamirs of Tajikistan, meeting food needs is an ongoing struggle. One of the challenges to local agricultural production is water scarcity. This paper presents a case study of a small-scale, self-organized irrigation governance system in a village in the western Pamirs, applying the concept of hydrosocial arrangements to explore its physical and social components and the interactions between them. It concludes that the system has proven sustainable and resilient, largely because of its strong sense of community ownership and its flexibility. Political actors and development practitioners often lack detailed knowledge about such well-functioning local solutions, but external interventions applied without that knowledge risk destroying effective systems that are already in place. It is important to design interventions that are tailored to local needs and based on a comprehensive and well-contextualized understanding of local structures, relations, and values.
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