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Author | : International Water Management Institute (IWMI). |
Publisher | : IWMI |
Total Pages | : 4 |
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Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
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Author | : Melvyn Kay |
Publisher | : Food & Agriculture Org. |
Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 9789251045947 |
Download Smallholder Irrigation Technology Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This report is a view of irrigation technologies for smallholders in the context of improving rural livelihoods, especially in regard to the prospects for sub-Saharan Africa. The role of traditional technologies is evaluated and modern water distribution technologies, such as sprinkler and trickle irrigation, are reviewed. A broad classification has been made based on climate and the traditional agricultural background of the local people, which links technology options to specific places--to agricultural regions and to countries.
Author | : Shah, Tushaar |
Publisher | : IWMI |
Total Pages | : 53 |
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Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
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Download Accelerating irrigation expansion in Sub-Saharan Africa Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Tushaar Shah |
Publisher | : IWMI |
Total Pages | : 33 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Farms, Small |
ISBN | : 929090481X |
Download Institutional Alternatives in African Smallholder Irrigation Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This report reviews several decades of global experience in transferring management of government-run irrigation systems to farmer associations or other nongovernmental agencies in an attempt to apply the lessons of success to the African smallholder irrigation context.
Author | : Malabo Montpellier Panel |
Publisher | : Intl Food Policy Res Inst |
Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 2018-12-18 |
Genre | : Political Science |
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Download Water-Wise: Smart irrigation strategies for Africa Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The report begins with an overview of the challenges on agricultural systems to make more food available and accessible and lays out the potential of irrigation to make agriculture more productive, efficient and profitable for smallholder farmers. A discussion on the potential to expand irrigation across Africa and barriers to uptake including an analysis of the inherent risks and desired outcomes of irrigation forms the next section. The report reviews the traditional and new, innovative smallscale and large-scale irrigation approaches and technologies that have been implemented in Africa, followed by an analysis of the experiences of six African countries that have been particularly innovative and successful in terms of their institutional and policy design for irrigation. The report closes by drawing some key lessons and offering nine recommendations for actions by African governments and the private sector.
Author | : Melvyn Kay |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 42 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Irrigation technology |
ISBN | : 9789251045947 |
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Author | : Hilmy Sally |
Publisher | : IWMI |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2011-10-21 |
Genre | : Agricultural development projects |
ISBN | : 9290904941 |
Download Private irrigation in Sub-Saharan Africa: regional Seminar on Private Sector Participation and Irrigation Expansion in Sub-Saharan Africa, Accra, Ghana, 22-26 October 2001 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Only 4 percent of arable land in sub-Saharan Africa is irrigated, using just 2 percent of the available water resources. Furthermore, 18 percent of the area equipped for irrigation is not utilized at all and the intensity of use varies between 50 percent and 80 percent. This highlights the huge potential available for intensifying and expanding irrigated area, provided that the investments required can be successfully mobilized. However, it must be noted that if investments in irrigation are to yield satisfactory returns, investments must also be made in a series of related activities. Current global figures for the amount of private investment in irrigation confirm that good returns can indeed be achieved. Prospects for sub-Saharan Africa would be far more favorable if public development assistance, particularly foreign direct investments, did not show declining trends.
Author | : Tushaar Shah |
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Release | : 2020 |
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Download Accelerating Irrigation Expansion in Sub-Saharan Africa Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Sub-Saharan Africa urgently needs to accelerate the pace of agricultural growth to improve livelihoods, ensure food security, and keep droughts from turning into famines. However, this requires the region to increase smallholder irrigation faster than its current sluggish pace. In this respect, explosive growth since the 1970s in distributed farmer-led smallholder irrigation (FLSI) in China, South Asia, and elsewhere may offer Sub-Saharan Africa better guidance than state-led centralized large irrigation projects. Proactive policy support, prominence of market players, economies of scale and scope, village-level irrigation service markets, government incentives, and subsidies on motor pumps and boreholes have all triggered and fueled rapid expansion of motor pump-driven FLSI that made famines history and countries food-secure in Asia in a short span of a decade or two. With its ample shallow groundwater resources and sparse farming areas, Sub-Saharan Africa has immense potential to grow pump-driven FLSI quickly, cost-effectively, and without risking the environmental ill effects observed in Asia and elsewhere. A "big push" to FLSI will work better than an incremental trickle because high-volume-low-margin FLSI growth generates economies of scale and scope, which are essential. Interventions by nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) are useful for demonstration and piloting innovations, but market players are best placed to achieve scale. Finally, Sub-Saharan Africa can and needs to leapfrog and build its FLSI economy around solar irrigation pumps, which are destined to disrupt FLSI globally in the years to come.
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Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Electronic books |
ISBN | : 9781925746280 |
Download Transforming Smallholder Irrigation Schemes in Africa Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Oke, A. |
Publisher | : International Water Management Institute (IWMI) |
Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 2022-11-01 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 9290909420 |
Download Small-scale irrigation and water management technologies for African agricultural transformation Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle