Webinar: Mapping marginalisation in smallholder irrigation

Remotely sensed data can label an area as “efficient” and “productive” based exclusively on the amount of water used against the quantity of crop produced, but it doesn’t reveal the hidden geographies of ethnic, caste, and gender-based inequality.

In light of these challenges, in our upcoming episode of Watering the Margins we invite you to join our discussion on mapping inequity and marginalisation in irrigation, especially concerning the challenges encountered by smallholders.

Mapping Marginalisation will explore what insights and ideas can such research provide to shape future engagements with smallholders. It will also ask if mapping marginalisation can allow for reimagining “efficiency” and “productivity” in agricultural water management.

Please join us as we learn and collaborate for a socially inclusive farming future.

10:00 - 10:05: Opening remarks

10:05 - 10:30: Talk by Hans. C. Komakech

10:30 - 10:55: Talk by Suhas Bhasme

10:55 - 11:20: Talk by Tanya Matthan

11:20 - 11:50: Moderated Q&A and Discussion

11:50 - 12:00: Closing comments

The WaterPIP Knowledge and Action Network project is supported by the Water and Development Partnership Programme (WDPP) under the programmatic cooperation between the Directorate-General for International Cooperation (DGIS) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands and IHE Delft.

Hans C. Komakech, Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology, Tanzania
Associate Professor of Water Resources Management at the Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology (NM-AIST) in Arusha, Tanzania. Hans Leads the Centre Water Infrastructure and Sustainable Energy Futures (WISE – Futures). With a background in Civil Engineering and Water Resources Management, Hans studies a variety of water management issues using an interdisciplinary approach and through mixed methods. Hans’s earlier work focused on the emergence of collective action and local water sharing arrangements. His recent research projects focus on groundwater use and development, farmer-led irrigation development, and agricultural water management.

Suhas Bhasme, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, India
Suhas Bhasme is an assistant professor at the Centre for Water Policy, Regulation and Governance (CWPRG), School of Habitat Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai Campus. His research interests include understanding community participation and marginalisation about water reforms, agricultural transformations and rural livelihoods. Before joining TISS, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Ashoka Trust Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE), Bangalore and the Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad. He also worked as an Associate Editor for World Development Perspectives (Elsevier). He completed PhD from the University of Sussex, United Kingdom and his M.A. and M. Phil from Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi.

Tanya Matthan, London School of Economics, United Kingdom
Tanya Matthan (she/her) is Assistant Professor in Environment at the Department of Geography and Environment, London School of Economics. She has a PhD in Anthropology from University of California Los Angeles and MA in Sociology from the Delhi School of Economics. Drawing from political ecology, economic anthropology, and critical agrarian studies, her current book project examines experiences of uncertainty among cultivators in central India. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Geoforum, Journal of Peasant Studies, and Antipode.

 

The webinar will be moderated by Amitangshu Acharya, IHE Delft lecturer in Water Governance.