During the REAL project, Chris de Bont completed her PhD in Human Geography (2018) from the University of Stockholm, Sweden, and continued research on the socio-ecological systems of water in Tanzania. After the REAL project, Chris was often based at NM-AIST, Tengeru, Arusha, Tanzania, as a visiting post-doc at WISE-Futures and is part of the “Transformation to Groundwater Sustainability” project together with Dr. Hans Komakech. Chris continued to study how farmers’ initiatives can contribute to the development and governance of groundwater resources in Tanzania.
Thesis
de Bont, Chris. 2018. Modernisation and farmer-led irrigation development in Africa: A study of state-farmer interactions in Tanzania. PhD thesis Stockholm University, Department of Human Geography. ISBN: 978-91-7797-224-2 (print).
Select publications
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de Bont C, Veldwisch GJ 2020. State Engagement with Farmer-led Irrigation Development: Symbolic Irrigation Modernisation and Disturbed Development Trajectories in Tanzania. Journal of Development Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2020.1746278
de Bont C, Komakech H, Jan Veldwisch. 2019. Neither modern nor traditional: Farmer-led irrigation development in Kilimanjaro Region, Tanzania. World Development 116, 15-27.
Komakech HC, de Bont, C. 2018. Differentiated access: Challenges of equitable and sustainable groundwater exploitation in Tanzania. Water Alternatives 11(3): A11-3-10.
de Bont, C. 2018. The continuous quest for control by African irrigation planners in the face of farmer-led irrigation development: The case of the Lower Moshi Area, Tanzania (1935-2017). Water Alternatives 11(3): A11-3-22.
de Bont, C., Veldwisch, G.J., Komakech, H.C. and Vos, J., 2016. The fluid nature of water grabbing: the on-going contestation of water distribution between peasants and agribusinesses in Nduruma, Tanzania. Agriculture and human values, 33(3), pp.641-654. DOI: 10.1007/s10460-015-9644-5