Communal irrigation systems in south-eastern Africa: findings on productivity and profitability
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2017
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Pittock, J.
Bjornlund, H.
Stirzaker, R.
Van Rooyen, A.
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International Journal of Water Resources Development, 2017; 33(5):839-847
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Significant expansion of irrigated agriculture is planned in Africa, though existing smallholder schemes perform poorly. Research at six schemes in Mozambique, Tanzania and Zimbabwe shows that a range of problems are exacerbated by poor management, with limited market linkages leading to underutilization and a lack of profit. Improving sustainability of these complex systems will require: multiple interventions at different scales; investing in people and institutions as much as hardware; clarity in governments’ objectives for their smallholder irrigation schemes; appropriate business models to enable farmers; and better market linkages.
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Copyright 2017 the author(s). published by Informa UK limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the creative commons attribution-noncommercial-noDerivatives license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/)