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Marcel Kuper
Affiliation : Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement · Université de Montpellier · AgroParisTech · Institut Agro Montpellier · Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'Environnement · Gestion de l'Eau, Acteurs, Usages · Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
- 146Publications (affiliation in France)
- 474Total publications
- 3636Citations
- 31h-index
Research profile
Marcel Kuper has 146 indexed publications (2014–2026). Their work appears mainly in “Cahiers Agricultures”, “HAL” and “Irrigation and Drainage”. Their most cited article, “Making the user visible: analysing irrigation practices and farmers’ logic to explain actual drip irrigation performance” (2014), has been cited 117 times. 15 of these publications date from the last three years of activity. Their work is co-authored with at least 12 researchers, including institutions in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Brazil.
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Create my free profile Add my publicationsResearch areas
- Irrigation Practices and Water Management
- Water Governance and Infrastructure
- Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
- Water resources management and optimization
- Water Resource Management and Quality
Publications (146)
- One water? In pursuit of water circularity in Moroccan Oases
- Overlapping projects and multiple sources to mitigate household water insecurity in rural areas in the semi-arid region of Brazil
- Rethinking the modernization of pressurized networks: Lessons from a case study in the Gharb (Morocco)
- Basin closure and water circularity: a pathway analysis from Oum Er Rbia river basin, Morocco
- Les jeunes, les vieux et la co-exploitation : l’imbrication des savoirs dans les extensions oasiennes au Maroc
- MASSIRE PROJECT: STRENGTHENING NETWORKS FOR AGRICULTURAL AND RURAL INNOVATION IN OASES AND ARID ZONES OF THE MAGHREB
- Caring for Groundwater: How Care Can Expand and Transform Groundwater Governance
- A participatory approach for characterizing the resilience of rural water supply systems in semi-arid areas
- An engineering approach to support user-led innovation in improving the performance of artisanal irrigation pivots in the Algerian Sahara
- Structures d’opportunités et leadership : analyse de l’action collective dans les oasis de la vallée de Todgha Ferkla, Maroc
- Penser la gestion de l’eau à l’échelle territoriale dans les oasis du Maroc : le cas de Ferkla
- Weaving different forms of knowledge of managed aquifer recharge in a Saharan oasis (Algeria)
- Prendre soin de la nappe : quelles possibilités et quelles prédispositions des collectifs d’agriculteurs des oasis de Todgha Ferkla (Maroc) à installer des dispositifs de recharge de la nappe ?
- Prenons soin de nos nappes en facilitant leur recharge : un appel pour rendre le système oasien durable
- Surexploitation des eaux souterraines : la plaine de Berrechid en quête d'un changement de gouvernance
- Pomper ou disparaître : le dilemme du renforcement des khettaras par le pompage solaire dans les oasis du Maroc
- Riding the waves of discomforts: Reflecting on the dialogue of hydrologists with society
- Watermelons in the Desert in Morocco: Struggles Around a Groundwater Commons-in-the-Making
- Water accounting in the Berrechid plain (Morocco): A process approach
- The Persistent Appeal of the California Agricultural Dream in North Africa
- Sharing Difficult Waters: Community-Based Groundwater Recharge and Use in Algeria and India
- Visions contrastées des services écosystémiques des zones humides saisonnières du Gharb, Maroc
- Sense-making and shaping of temporary wetlands: A socio-hydrological analysis of dichotomous ontologies of merjas in Morocco
- Le contrat de gestion participative pourrait-il résoudre la crise de gouvernance des eaux souterraines ? Cas de la nappe de Berrechid au Maroc
- L’exploitation des eaux souterraines dans le Saiss : la course que certains abandonnent
- Question agraire, question hydraulique : Mise en débat de l’avenir des merjas de la plaine du Gharb, Maroc
- Sustaining community-managed rural water supply systems in severe water-scarce areas in Brazil and Tunisia
- Explaining societal change through bricolage: Transformations in regimes of water governance
- Reinventing the wheel: adapting a traditional circular irrigation system to ‘modern’ agricultural extensions in Algeria’s Sahara
- Local development organisations in Saharan regions of North Africa: Expanding horizons
- Challenging ‘one size fits all’: Continued use of sprinkler irrigation in a state‐led drip irrigation project in Morocco
- The role of water and energy use in expanding the boundaries of irrigated agriculture in the Berrechid plain of Morocco
- The outward journey of a local innovation: the dissemination of an artisanal irrigation pivot from Algeria’s Sahara
- Algeria case study: Re-inventing the circular irrigation system in the semi-desert Mzab valley
- Nature-based solution to study multiple ecosystems services in temporary wetlands: the case of the Sebou Delta in Morocco
- Assessing physical and economic water productivity in crop-livestock systems
- Transformations to groundwater sustainability: from individuals and pumps to communities and aquifers
- Revealing the Foggara as a Living Irrigation System through an Institutional Analysis: Evidence from Oases in the Algerian Sahara
- Learning from the past to build the future governance of groundwater use in agriculture
- Rooted water collectives: Towards an analytical framework
- Irrigation and water governance
- The power of translation: Innovation dialogues in the context of farmer-led innovation in the Algerian Sahara
- L'expérience de l'irrigation par aspersion dans les secteurs collectifs de la Grande Hydraulique du Maroc
- THE BLIND ANGLE: PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT OF DRIP IRRIGATION IN USE IN A LARGE‐SCALE IRRIGATION SCHEME IN MOROCCO
- Rivalités et arrangements coopératifs pour l’accès à l’eau souterraine dans la plaine de Berrechid au Maroc
- Sous les gölet, les forages. Infrastructures d’irrigation et trajectoires des territoires de l’eau dans la région d’Izmir (Turquie)
- Investigating the invisible roots of a prevailing narrative of farmers’ failed collective action in Morocco
- Impact of initial water content on infiltration in soils Jorf irrigation district (Errachidia province)
- Effect of soil texture on water infiltration in soils of Jorf irrigation district (Errachidia province)
- Inspiring a Broader Socio‐Hydrological Negotiation Approach With Interdisciplinary Field‐Based Experience
- New reading of Saharan agricultural transformation: Continuities of ancient oases and their extensions (Algeria)
- Les oasis en Afrique du Nord : dynamiques territoriales et durabilité des systèmes de production agricole
- From worker to peasant and then to entrepreneur? Land reform and agrarian change in the Saïss (Morocco)
- From Oasis Archipelago to Pioneering Eldorado in Algeria's Sahara
- Analyse du basculement des modes d’extraction des eaux souterraines dans le Saïss (Maroc)
- Connecting Drip Irrigation Performance to Farmers’ Practices: The Case of Greenhouse Horticulture in the Algerian Sahara
- Pursuing the State's hydraulic mission in a context of private groundwater use in the Izmir Province, Turkey
- Agriculture in Motion: Intertwined Geographical and Socio-professional Mobilities in North Africa s Groundwater Economy
- Thèses de doctorat sur les oasis, soutenues et en cours
- Prosper, survive or exit: Contrasted fortunes of farmers in the groundwater economy in the Saiss plain (Morocco)
- Can agricultural groundwater economies collapse? An inquiry into the pathways of four groundwater economies under threat
- Considering groundwater use to improve the assessment of groundwater pumping for irrigation in North Africa
- Specifying the differentiated contribution of farmers to groundwater depletion in two irrigated areas in North Africa
- Conjunctive use of surface and ground water resources in a community-managed irrigation system — The case of the Sidi Okba palm grove in the Algerian Sahara
- Groundwater use in North Africa as a cautionary tale for climate change adaptation
- Une innovation incrémentielle : la conception et la diffusion d'un pivot d'irrigation artisanal dans le Souf (Sahara algérien)
- Effet de l'irrigation déficitaire contrôlée sur la croissance et le développement foliaire du palmier dattier (Phoenix dactyliferaL.)
- Monument historique ou système bien vivant ? Les foggaras des oasis du Touat (Algérie) et leur réalimentation en eau par pompage
- Modélisation de l'irrigation en goutte à goutte enterré du palmier dattier sous les conditions oasiennes
- A user-centred approach to irrigation performance: drip irrigation in the Khrichfa area, Morocco
- Topical Collection: Groundwater-based agriculture in the Mediterranean
- Overlapping Groundwater Service Markets in a Palm Grove in the Algerian Sahara
- Performances du goutte à goutte enterré pour l'irrigation de jeunes palmiers dattiers
- Étude sur l'agriculture familiale à petite échelle au Proche-Orient et Afrique du Nord. Pays focus: Maroc
- Quel (s) territoire (s) de l’eau souterraine ? Pouvoir d’attraction et recompositions socio-spatiales sur la nappe du Saïss, Maroc
- Évaluation de la qualité des dattes de la variété Majhoul produites sous différents régimes hydriques
- Liberation or Anarchy? The Janus Nature of Groundwater Use on North Africa’s New Irrigation Frontiers
- La durabilité du système oasien face à la détérioration des ressources en eaux souterraines: cas de la palmeraie de Tafilalet
- Effet de l'irrigation déficitaire contrôlée sur la productivité et l'efficience d'utilisation de l'eau du palmier dattier cv Majhoul
- Méthodes d'estimation et d'extrapolation des pompages des eaux souterraines par l'intégration des pratiques locales: cas de la plaine du Saïss au Maroc
- Analyse de la première expérience de reconversion collective vers l'irrigation localisée: cas du secteur pilote de Tadla
- Quel rôle de l'intégration des données spatiotemporelles dans la gestion de la nappe de Saïss ?
- Révéler ce qui fait communauté dans un système irrigué par l'analyse des dynamiques conflictuelles
- The material of the social: the mutual shaping of institutions by irrigation technology and society in Seguia Khrichfa, Morocco
- Hybridation des règles d'accès à l'eau souterraine dans le Saiss (Maroc) : entre anarchie et Léviathan ?
- Greenhouses and men: Farm holdings favouring territorial expansion and upward socio professional mobility on a Saharan pioneer front in Algeria
- Biophysical and economic water productivity of dual-purpose cattle farming
- Emancipation of young farmers by unlocking access to land and water in oases in the Algerian Sahara
- Mobility of rural youth and new forms of Saharan agriculture (Biskra, Algeria)
- A generation looking for opportunities and recognition: young rural people and their pathways into irrigated agriculture in North Africa
- Designing a debate on the role of young farmers in a context of agrarian change in the Saïss (Morocco)
- Mobilizing technical and social resources to set up in rural areas: strategies of rural youth in Morocco
- Putting the language of institutions to good use: farming careers of young rural unemployed university graduates in Morocco's Saïss region
- Compromising with the State: young graduates engaging in farming projects in Morocco's Sefrou region
- Making the user visible: analysing irrigation practices and farmers’ logic to explain actual drip irrigation performance
- BEYOND THE PROMISES OF TECHNOLOGY: A REVIEW OF THE DISCOURSES AND ACTORS WHO MAKE DRIP IRRIGATION
- BRICOLAGEAS INNOVATION: OPENING THE BLACK BOX OF DRIP IRRIGATION SYSTEMS
- Recompositions des agricultures familiales au Maghreb : une analyse comparative dans trois situations d'irrigation avec les eaux souterraines
- Subterranean waters, a source of dignity as well as a social resource: The case of farmers on the Saïss plain of Morocco
- The Seductive Power of an Innovation: Enrolling Non-conventional Actors in a Drip Irrigation Community in Morocco
Publication venues
- Cahiers Agricultures × 22
- HAL × 12
- Irrigation and Drainage × 9
- Agritrop (Cirad) × 7
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) × 5
- Agricultural Water Management × 4
Publications per year
- 20262
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- 20249
- 202311
- 202210
- 20213
- 20204
- 20196
- 201810
- 201717
Collaborations
Partner institutions : Institut Agronomique et Vétérinaire Hassan II · École Nationale Supérieure Agronomique · École Nationale d'Agriculture de Meknès · Innovation and Development in Agriculture and Food · Université Paris Nanterre
Co-authors’ countries : Morocco · Algeria · Tunisia · Brazil
Co-authors
- Sami Bouarfa
- Nicolas Faysse
- Caroline Lejars
- Guillaume Lacombe
- Meriem Farah Hamamouche
- Patrice Garin
- Fatah Ameur
- Hichem Amichi
- Patrick Dugué
- Tarik Hartani
- Julien Burte
- Pierre-Yves Le Gal
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