However, formatting rules can vary widely between applications and fields of interest or study. Al jazirah became the sudan s major agricultural region with more than 10,000 square kilometres 2. Projects like gezira are best understood in terms of continuous negotiations. Current status of agriculture and future challenges in sudan. Sudan the world bank and the gezira scheme in the sudan. The new halfa scheme is located on the upper atbara river in the east of the country. It was designed with the main objective of producing cotton, a single cash crop.
Dam, which provides irrigation water for the rahad scheme. Michael kevane, the international journal of african historical studies, vol. Improvising planned development on the gezira plain, sudan, 1900. Specifically,the book elaborates the history,and the major current and future challenges and opportunities,of the nile river basin. Gaitskell believed that the gezira scheme merited such a book is telling. The typical image of the gezira scheme, the largescale irrigation scheme started. Gezira irrigation scheme in sudan books, book price. A story of development in the sudan faber and faber, london, 1959. The gezira scheme was designed in the 1920s after prolonged experiments had been carried out on a prototype scale. Some of the problems, both economic and social, which arose in planning the gezira scheme, and the way in which they were handled. For the sudan gezira scheme, the eighties have been a decade of missed opportunities. Improvising planned development on the gezira plain, sudan, 19001980. The history and structure of this great cotton growing project has often. About this book the typical image of the gezira scheme, the largescale irrigation scheme started under british colonial rule in sudan, is of a centrally planned effort by a central colonial power controlling tenants and cotton production.
Doctors and political officials alike knew that the opening of a massive irrigation scheme would bring epidemiological change, potentially threatening the ability. The gezira scheme is one of the largest irrigation projects in the world. The first part deals with the history and evolution of the gezira scheme since 1925. A story of development in the sudan, was published in 1959 shortly af. Karrar abbady and president omar albeshirs remarks on failure of the scheme. The authors propose that the gezira scheme has played a paradoxical role in the capitalist transformation of the sudan reinforcing some noncapitalist production relations while at the same time acting as an engine for the peripheral capitalist development.
It was thus a nonperennial scheme with monoculture. The first part comprises the introduction and general country information. The farmers said that the new measures will lead to land grabbing and transform the scheme into feudal farms. Other crops were initially grown to provide food for.
This book rewrites geziras history in terms of colonial control, farmers actions and resistance, and the broader development debate. History of agricultural transformation and the role of international. This report is an overview of the gezira scheme up to the present day. The gezira scheme which was established during british colonial rule in sudan was often viewed as a model of development where small producers tenants are incorporated into a largescale project. The need to protect the gezira from disease infection dominated interwar medical policy and medical research. The gezira scheme, which lies in the region between the blue and white niles in the republic of the sudan, exhibits a unique example of partnership and cooperation and a remarkable blend of state ownership and private enterprise. The breadbasket strategy anthony cheeseboro murray state university this essay will expand its horizons beyond the sudans gezira scheme, the worlds largest irrigated agribusiness, and examine programs that were influenced by it.
Help bookmark tell a friend outofprint wish list home. The gezira irrigation scheme highlights the complicated relationships between medicine, capital, and the health of labour. The gezira scheme was begun by the british and distributes water from the blue nile through canals and ditches to tenant farms lying between the blue and white nile rivers. The gezira scheme and modern sudan victoria bernal university of california, irvine the government. This book rewrites gezira s history in terms of colonial control, farmers actions and resistance, and the broader development debate. The irrigation is largely by means of gravity flow from the sennar reservoir. Versluys 1953 the gezira scheme in the sudan and the russian kolkhoz. The low contribution of the tenants household labour in the scheme s farming was a matter which was not expected and which begged for explanation. Gezira scheme project gutenberg selfpublishing ebooks. Colonial moral economy and the discipline of development.
Product pricing will be adjusted to match the corresponding currency. The possible relevance of some of this history to todays development problems. The major commercial crop is longfibered cotton, but sorghum durra and beans lubia are raised as well. It will be a useful guide to others wishing to use the sudan archives for further study of the gezira scheme, since ertsen provides good summaries of many reports and memos.
Browse the amazon editors picks for the best books of 2019, featuring our. Since the end of the 1960s, the scheme has become a burden on the countrys budget, he said at a press conference on 30 november last year. It is centered on the sudanese state of al jazirah, just southeast of the confluence of the blue and white nile rivers at the city of khartoum. It is centered on the sudanese state of al jazirah. The gezira scheme and agricultural transition 9780714633282. The title will be removed from your cart because it is not available in this region. The gezira scheme has come to the forefront of events during the past weeks in the wake of the resignation that was tendered by the president of the schemes board of directors, dr. There is an extensive literature on the gezira scheme and how it has persisted despite recurrently failing to pay its way. Suddenly they found their village alive with land surveyors, engineers, and inspectors. The northern part of gezira gezira proper is the most important area of irrigated commercial agriculture in the country. The failure ofintensification and diversification in the gezira scheme anthony q. In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content missed opportunities.
Improvising planned development on the gezira plain, sudan, 19001980 palgrave studies in the history of science and technology 97817568175 by ertsen, maurits w. Very briefly where and what the gezira scheme is today. Gezira article about gezira by the free dictionary. Cheeseboro murray state university this essay is concerned with the diversification and intensification programs of the gezira board during the 1960s. Why do gezira tenants withhold their households labour. Al jazirah became the sudans major agricultural region with more than 10,000 square kilometres 2. Central to my investigation of the colonial moral economy of the gezira scheme is arthur gaitskell, who began work in the gezira in 1923 and managed the scheme from 1945 until his retirement in 1952. Project muse the influence of the gezira scheme on later. An illusion of development 1st edition by tony barnett author. All structured data from the file and property namespaces is available under the creative commons cc0 license. Water from the blue nile is distributed through canals and ditches to tenant farms lying between the blue and white nile rivers. The increase in nile water allocation through the 1959 nile waters agreement with egypt led for example to the construction of the managil extension of the gezira scheme and of the new halfa scheme. The scheme supports more than two million peopleone million tenants and their family members, and an equivalent number of seasonal or migrant labourers. Gezira irrigation scheme in sudan books, find the lowest price on new, used books, textbooks compare book prices at stores.
This report examines how the design of the gezira irrigation scheme has resolved. Improvising planned development on the gezira plain, sudan, 19001980 pp 151171 cite as. At that time the sennar dam and numerous irrigation canals were built. The gezira scheme was begun by the british while the area was governed as part of angloegyptian sudan. It has grown from the original scheme cultivating 300,000 fd to the present irrigation area of 2. The book provides a contemporary socioeconomic account of the gezira scheme, a 60 year old project which contributes much to the sudanese economy and which consumes the major portion of the countrys irrigation waters. When i first came to know the sudan between the two world wars and visited that strange plain of the gezira, made stranger by the gleaming geometrical pattern of the irrigation channels, i was deeply impressed by the need to spread knowledge of this unique achievement in economic partnership between a colonial government. It analyses the basin characteristics using statistical data and modern tools such as remote sensing and geographic information systems. This book rewrites geziras history in terms of colonial control, farmers.
When i first came to know the sudan between the two world wars and visited that strange plain of the gezira, made stranger by the gleaming geometrical pattern of the irrigation channels, i was deeply impressed by the need to spread knowledge of this unique achievement in economic partnership between a colonial government, a commercial company and what had been a very. The history and structure of the organisation militates against this recognition, unless and until it is presented. Disease, quarantine, and racial categories in the gezira. Maurits erstens wellwritten history of the gezira scheme relies almost exclusively on the sudan archives at durham university.
Maurits w ertsen the typical image of the gezira scheme, the largescale irrigation scheme started under british colonial rule in sudan, is of a centrally planned effort by a central colonial power controlling. The gezira scheme in sudan, the office du niger in. Archaeological, historical, religious, and natural unique sites. Country club in cairo long a symbol of british imperialism and insularity in egypt, the gezira, as it is usually called, was founded in 1882 and originally limited its membership to highranking british civil servants in the egyptian government and officers of the army of occupation. Other major farming areas are watered by the khashm alqirbah dam on the atbara river and by alru. The gezira scheme and agricultural transition, 1st. The region is the site of the gezira scheme, a program to foster cotton farming begun in 1925. The author was connected with the project for nearly 30 years. A detailed and authoritative story of the gezira irrigation and development scheme. The country you have selected will result in the following. Gezira scheme irrigation project, sudan britannica. The gezira irrigation scheme lies between the blue and white nile rivers south of khartoum, and is fed principally by gravity irrigation from sennar dam on the blue nile. This page was last edited on 3 november 2012, at 07.
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