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Gyasi, Kadir Osman
Determinants of Success of Collective Action on Local Commons
An Empirical Analysis of Community−Based Irrigation Management in Northern Ghana
Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2005. XIX, 178 pp., num. tables and
graphs
Development Economics and Policy . Bd. 49
Herausgegeben von Heidhues Franz / von Braun Joachim
ISBN 3−631−54084−1 / US−ISBN 0−8204−7738−9 pb.
SFR 57.00 / €* 39.00 / €** 36.40 / £ 25.50 / US−$ 43.95
The growing recognition of the potential of local institutions to assure the sustainability of natural resources has
motivated the devolution of the management and responsibility over local commons from the state to local user
groups. In Ghana, farmer management of irrigation systems has become an important component of policies for
irrigation development and reform. While numerous examples of successful local irrigation management exist in
different parts of the world, there are several cases of failure that sometimes lead to a complete system
breakdown. Using a dataset from community managed irrigation schemes in northern Ghana, this study
examines the reasons why communities differ in terms of economic, distributional and environmental outcomes
of the devolution program. Among others, the study finds the resistance of landlords to a land redistribution
policy to have a detrimental effect on the success of collective action for local management of the irrigation
schemes. The ability of the user groups to tackle local asymmetries for promoting equity and forming
appropriate institutions to motivate cooperative behavior is essential for achieving sustainable local management
of the irrigation schemes.
Contents: Devolution − Collective Action − Participation − Community Irrigation Management − Northern
Ghana.
The Author: Kadir Osman Gyasi received his MPhil degree in Agricultural Economics from the University of
Ghana, Legon in 1998. He carried out his research at the Center for Development Research at the University of
Bonn. Before joining the Department of Economic and Technological Change at the University of Bonn, the
author worked as an economist at the Savanna Agricultural Research Institute of the Council for Scientific and
Industrial Research in Ghana. He successfully completed his PhD in 2005. His research interests include
household economics, resource economics, institutional economics and rural development.
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