Online course Irrigation Management and Development

This course looks into the socio-technical nature of sustainability challenges of irrigation, including objectives, tasks, modalities and challenges in irrigation management and development.
Irrigation systems often face similar challenges in terms of sustainable maintenance and operation, such as accountability and financial resources and management. Systems get stuck in the so called build-neglect-rebuild cycle, for which there are no quick or easy solutions. This course looks into the socio-technical nature of these issues. You will learn about different objectives, tasks, modalities and challenges in irrigation management. The course looks at different types of systems in different parts of world, including large-scale agency-managed, smallholder systems, public-private partnerships, and individual smallholder irrigators. In this interactive online course you are triggered to come up with own examples, challenges and think of possible solutions for sustainability managing irrigation systems for a food secure future.