Institutional, Managerial and Technological Innovation in Latin American Irrigation: Relevance to Global Irrigation Improvement

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the innovations in irrigation that several countries in Latin Am erica are developing in water rights and markets, irrigation management turnover, water efficient technologies and user-based performance assessment. The paper presents a brief overview of irrigation in Latin America, describes some of the em erging irrigation innovations in detail, examines the broad implications of these developments, outlines a framework for analysing irrigation innovations in Latin America and presents some tentative conclusions.