FAO SOILS BULLETIN 80

FAO IRRIGATION AND DRAINAGE PAPER 63


Modernizing irrigation management
– the MASSCOTE approach

by
Daniel Renault
FAO Land and Water Development Division

Thierry Facon

Land and Water Management
FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific

Robina Wahaj
FAO Consultant

   
FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS
Rome, 2007
 
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Contents

Part I

Acknowledgements
Preface
List of acronyms
Summary

Part II

Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapter 2. MASSCOTE

Chapter 3. Canal operation – objectives and organization


Part III


Chapter 4.
The RAP evaluation

Chapter 5. Mapping the capacity of a canal system

Chapter 6. Mapping the behaviour of irrigation systems – sensitivity


Part IV

Chapter 7. Mapping perturbations

Chapter 8. Water networks and water accounting

Chapter 9. Mapping the cost of operation against services

Chapter 10. Mapping the service to users


Part V

Chapter 11. Mapping the management units

Chapter 12. Mapping the demand for operation

Chapter 13. Improving subunit operation


Part VI

Chapter 14. Integrating service-oriented management options

Chapter 15. Towards a plan for modernization and for monitoring and evaluation

References

Part VII

Annexes