摘要：This paper focuses on the evaluation of a participatory approach aimed at supporting groupsof small-scale farmers in the design of joint drip irrigation projects. Our idea was to create a sustainablesocial learning environment in which they could acquire adaptive knowledge about new irrigationtechnology and about designing and managing a joint irrigation project while at the same time improvingtheir negotiation capacities. We developed a framework to evaluate the process as well as the outputs andoutcomes of the use of our approach with four groups of smallholder farmers in the Tadla irrigation schemein Morocco. Our findings showed that the learning environment made it possible to compensate for theknowledge differential among stakeholders and to co-produce knowledge that can be mobilized by small-scale farmers to help them make better informed decisions when choosing whether or not to engage in ajoint irrigation project and when developing and implementing such a project. We expect that this willultimately contribute to supporting the shift from state water to community water through a sharedunderstanding of the technical, economic, and social issues and options related to the management ofirrigation water
