Smallholder Irrigation Schemes In The Limpopo Province South Africa

Author : van Koppen, Barbara,Nhamo, Luxon,Cai, Xueliang,Gabriel, M. J.,Sekgala, M.,Shikwambana, S.,Tshikolomo, K.,Nevhutanda, S.,Matlala, B.,Manyama, D.
Publisher : International Water Management Institute (IWMI)
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-08
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789290908524

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Smallholder irrigation schemes in the Limpopo Province, South Africa by van Koppen, Barbara,Nhamo, Luxon,Cai, Xueliang,Gabriel, M. J.,Sekgala, M.,Shikwambana, S.,Tshikolomo, K.,Nevhutanda, S.,Matlala, B.,Manyama, D. Pdf

A survey of 76 public smallholder irrigation schemes in the Limpopo Province was jointly conducted by the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF), South Africa, and the Limpopo Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (LDARD), as part of the ‘Revitalization of Smallholder Irrigation in South Africa’ project. About one-third of those schemes was fully utilized; one-third partially utilized; and one-third not utilized in the winter of 2015; however, no single socioeconomic, physical, agronomic and marketing variable could explain these differences in utilization. Sale, mostly for informal markets, appeared the most important goal. Dilapidated infrastructure was the most important constraint cited by the farmers. The study recommends ways to overcome the build-neglect-rebuild syndrome, and to learn lessons from informal irrigation, which covers an area three to four times as large as public irrigation schemes in the province.

Author : Cai, Xueliang,Magidi, J.,Nhamo, Luxon,van Koppen, Barbara
Publisher : International Water Management Institute (IWMI)
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-05
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789290908517

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Mapping irrigated areas in the Limpopo Province, South Africa by Cai, Xueliang,Magidi, J.,Nhamo, Luxon,van Koppen, Barbara Pdf

This report summarizes the findings of a collaborative effort to map and assess irrigated areas in the Limpopo Province, South Africa. The study was conducted by the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) in collaboration with the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF) and the Limpopo Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (LDARD), as part of the DAFF-supported ‘Revitalization of irrigation in South Africa’ project. Based on a combination of Landsat and Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) satellite data, previous irrigated area mapping exercises carried out by DAFF and three-field ground truthing (GT) surveys, a total of 1.6 million hectares (Mha) of cropland were identified, with 262,000 ha actually irrigated in the 2015 winter season. The study also found that only 29% of all land equipped with center pivots was actually irrigated.

Author : van Koppen, Barbara,Tapela, B. N.,Mapedza, Everisto
Publisher : IWMI
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-31
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789290908623

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Joint ventures in the Flag Boshielo Irrigation Scheme, South Africa by van Koppen, Barbara,Tapela, B. N.,Mapedza, Everisto Pdf

Author : Tushaar Shah,Barbara van Koppen,Douglas Merrey Marna de Lange and, Madar Samad
Publisher : IWMI
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Farms, Small
ISBN : 9789290904816

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Institutional Alternatives in African Smallholder Irrigation by Tushaar Shah,Barbara van Koppen,Douglas Merrey Marna de Lange and, Madar Samad Pdf

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 : Sylvain Perret,Stefano Farolfi,Rashid Hassan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781136548741

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Water Governance for Sustainable Development by Sylvain Perret,Stefano Farolfi,Rashid Hassan Pdf

Good management of water resources - universally identified as a key aspect of poverty reduction, agriculture and food security - has proven, in practice, as difficult to achieve as it is eagerly sought. This book, edited and authored by leading authorities on water resource management, examines the recent changes in governance, institutions, economics and policies of water, covering developing, transitional and developed countries, with special emphasis on southern African case studies. The book examines how water policies, institutions and governance have shifted in recent years from supply-driven, quantitative, centrally controlled management to more demand-sensitive, decentralized, participatory approaches. Such a move often also implies cost recovery principles, resource allocation among competing sectors, and privatization. The case studies demonstrate that the new policies and legal frameworks have been difficult to implement and often fall short of initial expectations. Using an accessible multidisciplinary approach that integrates economics, sociology, geography and policy analysis, the book untangles the issues and presents best practices for policy- and decision-makers, governments and regulators, NGOs and user groups, service providers, and researchers. The overall aim is to show how good water governance structures can be developed and implemented for the benefit of all.

Author : Stefano Farolfi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781136548734

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Water Governance for Sustainable Development by Stefano Farolfi Pdf

Good management of water resources - universally identified as a key aspect of poverty reduction, agriculture and food security - has proven, in practice, as difficult to achieve as it is eagerly sought. This book, edited and authored by leading authorities on water resource management, examines the recent changes in governance, institutions, economics and policies of water, covering developing, transitional and developed countries, with special emphasis on southern African case studies. The book examines how water policies, institutions and governance have shifted in recent years from supply-driven, quantitative, centrally controlled management to more demand-sensitive, decentralized, participatory approaches. Such a move often also implies cost recovery principles, resource allocation among competing sectors, and privatization. The case studies demonstrate that the new policies and legal frameworks have been difficult to implement and often fall short of initial expectations. Using an accessible multidisciplinary approach that integrates economics, sociology, geography and policy analysis, the book untangles the issues and presents best practices for policy- and decision-makers, governments and regulators, NGOs and user groups, service providers, and researchers. The overall aim is to show how good water governance structures can be developed and implemented for the benefit of all.

Author : Morris Fanadzo,Nothando Dunjana,Hupenyu Allan Mupambwa,Ernest Dube
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-10
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789819924271

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Towards Sustainable Food Production in Africa by Morris Fanadzo,Nothando Dunjana,Hupenyu Allan Mupambwa,Ernest Dube Pdf

This edited book is focused on Sustainable Development Goal 2. It offers a comprehensive and topical collection of practices, technologies and innovations in the field of sustainable food production and security under a changing climate. It is a one-stop handbook for farmers, researchers, extensionists, policy makers and other stakeholders seeking to identify and disseminate best fit technologies for local and regional landscapes. It offers an understanding of the challenges, risks and uncertainties as well as opportunities to foster productive and sustainable food production. Smallholder farming and agriculture in general is facing a serious threat from climate change that has resulted in erratic and unpredictable rainfall and increased temperatures, among other abiotic stresses. These climate change induced pressures have reduced productivity mainly among the smallholder farmers, who are critical in driving the attainment of sustainable development goals like SDG 2, 12 and 13. The objective of the book is to document effective and practicable practices and technologies that can be adopted by smallholder African farmers as mitigation measures against the effects of climate change. This book is of interest to researchers, agricultural scientists, climate change scientists, capacity builders and policymakers.

Author : Melvyn Kay
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9251045941

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Smallholder Irrigation Technology by Melvyn Kay Pdf

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 : Mulala Danny Simatele,Felix Kwabena Donkor,Henry Bikwibili Tantoh
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2023-06-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782832524954

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Climate change, land, water and food security: Perspectives from sub-saharan africa by Mulala Danny Simatele,Felix Kwabena Donkor,Henry Bikwibili Tantoh Pdf

Author : R. E. Mpahlele,International Water Management Institute
Publisher : IWMI
Page : 39 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Arabie-Olifants River Irrigation Scheme
ISBN : 9789290903956

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Characteristics of Smallholder Irrigation Farming in South Africa by R. E. Mpahlele,International Water Management Institute Pdf

Author : Manish Kumar
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-09
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789535101178

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Problems, Perspectives and Challenges of Agricultural Water Management by Manish Kumar Pdf

Food security emerged as an issue in the first decade of the 21st Century, questioning the sustainability of the human race, which is inevitably related directly to the agricultural water management that has multifaceted dimensions and requires interdisciplinary expertise in order to be dealt with. The purpose of this book is to bring together and integrate the subject matter that deals with the equity, profitability and irrigation water pricing; modelling, monitoring and assessment techniques; sustainable irrigation development and management, and strategies for irrigation water supply and conservation in a single text. The book is divided into four sections and is intended to be a comprehensive reference for students, professionals and researchers working on various aspects of agricultural water management. The book seeks its impact from the diverse nature of content revealing situations from different continents (Australia, USA, Asia, Europe and Africa). Various case studies have been discussed in the chapters to present a general scenario of the problem, perspective and challenges of irrigation water use.

Author : McCarthy, Nancy,Ringler, Claudia,Agbonlahor, Mure Uhunamure,Pandya, A. B.,Iyob, Biniam,Perez, Nicostrato
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 57 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Is irrigation fit for purpose? A review of the relationships between scheme size and performance of irrigation systems by McCarthy, Nancy,Ringler, Claudia,Agbonlahor, Mure Uhunamure,Pandya, A. B.,Iyob, Biniam,Perez, Nicostrato Pdf

Irrigation is increasingly being called upon to help stabilize and grow food and water security in the face of multiple crises; these crises include climate change, but also recent global food and energy price crises, including the 2007/08 food and energy price crises, and the more recent crises triggered by the COVID 19 pandemic and the war on Ukraine. While irrigation development used to focus on public, large-scale, surface- and reservoir-fed systems, over the last several decades, private small-scale investments in groundwater irrigation have grown in importance and are expected to see rapid future growth, particularly in connection with solar-powered pumping systems. But is irrigation ‘fit-for-purpose’ to support population growth, economic development, and multiple food, energy and climate crises? This paper reviews how fit-for-purpose irrigation is with a focus on economies of scale of surface and groundwater systems, and a particular examination of systems in Sub-Saharan Africa where the need for expansion is largest. The review finds challenges for both larger surface and smaller groundwater systems in the face of growing demand for irrigated agriculture and dwindling and less reliable water supplies. To support resilience of the sector, we propose both a holistic design and management improvement agenda for larger surface systems, and a series of suggestions to improve sustainability concerns of groundwater systems

Author : Paul Hebinck,Sergio Schneider,Jan Douwe van der Ploeg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317753773

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Rural Development and the Construction of New Markets by Paul Hebinck,Sergio Schneider,Jan Douwe van der Ploeg Pdf

This book focuses on empirical experiences related to market development, and specifically new markets with structurally different characteristics than mainstream markets. Europe, Brazil, China and the rather robust and complex African experiences are covered to provide a rich multidisciplinary and multi-level analysis of the dynamics of newly emerging markets. Rural Development and the Construction of New Markets analyses newly constructed markets as nested markets. Although they are specific market segments that are nested in the wider commodity markets for food, they have a different nature, different dynamics, a different redistribution of value added, different prices and different relations between producers and consumers. Nested markets embody distinction viz-a-viz the general markets in which they are embedded. A key aspect of nested markets is that these are constructed in and through social struggles, which in turn positions this book in relation to classic and new institutional economic analyses of markets. These markets emerge as steadily growing parts of the farmer populations are dedicating their time, energy and resources to the design and production of new goods and services that differ from conventional agricultural outputs. The speed and intensity with which this is taking place, and the products and services involved, vary considerably across the world. In large parts of the South, notably Africa, farmers are ‘structurally’ combining farming with other activities. By contrast, in Europe and large parts of Latin America farmers have taken steps to generate new products and services which exist alongside ongoing agricultural production. This book not only discusses the economic rationales and dynamics for these markets, but also their likely futures and the threats and opportunities they face.

Author : Obayelu, Abiodun Elijah
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-09
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781522536321

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Food Systems Sustainability and Environmental Policies in Modern Economies by Obayelu, Abiodun Elijah Pdf

Food security is essential to the advancement and development of economies and societies worldwide. The promotion of viable food structures is the most effective method of promoting food security. Food Systems Sustainability and Environmental Policies in Modern Economies is a relevant research publication that explores the importance of viable food structures as well as the critical positive impact these viable structures have on food security, nutrition, and poverty. Featuring coverage on a broad range of topics such as irrigation schemes, agricultural input subsidies, and food cycles, this publication is geared toward professionals, researchers, and students seeking current research on viable food structures and their impact on society.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : RainbowSA
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Agricultural industries
ISBN : 9780620465205

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The National Agricultural Directory 2011 by Anonim Pdf