| This paper explores the link between cost and price in two irrigation schemes in Mali - the Office du Niger (ON), a large-scale gravity irrigation authority, and a number of small pump-irrigated fields at village perimeters along the Niger River (Petits Perimetres d'Irrigation Villagois). I argue that the effectiveness of cost-recovery pricing strategies for improving the long-run financial sustainability of irrigation systems and advancing national development objectives is a function of decision-making processes, which influence the distribution and absolute levels of cost and benefit flows. Participants' willingness and capacity to invest in problem solving play an important part in irrigation system viability by increasing the rate of technological... |
