Understanding Sedimentation Trajectories and Social Relations with Agent-based Modeling of Sudan’s Gezira Scheme

The Canals Never Lie: MASSCOTE framework and modelling of operation strategies in the Gezira Irrigation Scheme

The Gezira irrigation scheme, in Sudan, stretches out south of Khartoum between the Blue Nile and the While Nile Rivers. For more than 95 years since its establishment in 1925, the scheme has been a significant asset to Sudan’s economy. It is considered one of the oldest and largest schemes in the world being served by one management body using...

A Matter of Relationships: Actor-Networks of Colonial Rule in the Gezira Irrigation System, Sudan

In the first half of the 20th century, colonial rulers, a British firm and Sudanese farmers changed the Gezira Plain in Sudan into a large-scale irrigated cotton scheme. Gezira continues to be in use up to date. Its story shows how the abstract concept 'development' is shaped through the agency of humans and non-humans alike in government...