Our world seems entangled in systems increasingly dominated by power, greed, ignorance, self-deception and denial, with spiralling inequity and injustice. This book peels apart and analyses aspects of development that have been neglected or misunderstood.
The money invested in canal irrigation has had disappointing results. This book aims to show that the policy and practice behind the vast sums spent during the 1980s especially were based on misleading research and misdiagnosis, analyzing possible improvements in performance.