Impact of COVID-19 and capacities of farmers in small-scale irrigation schemes in sub-Saharan Africa
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2025
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Bjornlund, H.
Parry, K.
Kissoly, L.
Dube, T.
Mujeyi, A.
de Sousa, W.
Pittock, J.
Bjornlund, V.
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International Journal of Water Resources Development, 2025; 41(2):350-373
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Detrimental impacts from COVID-19 restrictions on households and agricultural productivity reinforce the need for resilience building and transformation in African food systems. Capitalizing on the opportunity to learn lessons from the 'Transforming Small-scale Irrigation in Southern Africa' (TISA) project (2013-2023), we summarize TISA's outcomes and compare survey data on the perceived impact of COVID-19 between three schemes involved and three not involved with TISA. Overall, participating households had greater ability to manage the impacts of COVID-19. We highlight the need to build resilience in multiple interconnecting domains to enhance adaptability to crisis events that impact agricultural systems.
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Copyright 2024 The Author(s). This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License.