Gert Jan Veldwisch Email & Phone Number

Arnhem-Nijmegen Metropolitan Area, Ge, Nl

The transformation of water, society and technology relations is at the core of my work. I am particularly interested in (counter) design processes and the role of societal actors in technological change. Increasingly my work focusses on climate adaptation and rural-urban connections in relation to water.My interest in conducting research is not purely academic, but takes shape at the meeting-place between research and practice in order to affect observable impact in real life. I am a passionate educator and have an active role in the innovation and governance of education at Wageningen University.

Wageningen

One day per week. Informing refugees that have just arrived in the Netherlands about the Dutch asylum procedure and analyzing their personal stories and reasons for application.

Chimoio, Mozambique

Based in Chimoio, Mozambique. Setting-up of a country office and managing the social science aspects of two projects. The first project runs in 15 communities of Central Mozambique and aims at improving farm productivity in vulnerable smallholder production systems. The second project is part of the Sub-Saharan Africa Challenge Program and operates in Zimbabwe, Malawi and Mozambique. The project aims at improving innovation capacities at district level, linking farmers to input and output markets and the participatory adaptation of soil fertility management technologies.

PhD field research on water allocation and distribution processes in the Khorezm irrigation and drainage system. Part of the ZEF/UNESCO project “Economic and Ecological restructuring of land and water use in Khorezm, Uzbekistan”.The PhD was awarded the qualification 'magna cum laude'.

In collaboration with the University of Pretoria and the Water Research Commission I conducted two research projects. (1) The documentation of an innovative approach of an Irrigation Management Transfer (IMT) programme being implemented at 114 smallholder irrigation systems; and (2) a detailed case study on water governance in a farmer managed irrigation system, two years after IMT.

Phd, Irrigation Management & Institutions, Agrarian Change, Uzbekistan, Central Asia

Phd thesis: Veldwisch, G.J.A. (2008). Cotton, Rice and Water: The Transformation of Agrarian Relations, Irrigation Technology and Water.

Msc, Tropical Landuse, Irrigation & Water Engineering

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