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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WATER RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT
Volume 33, Issue 5, Pages 839-847Publisher
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/07900627.2017.1324768
Keywords
Africa; agriculture; governance; market access; smallholder irrigation; water productivity
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- Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research [FSC-2013-006]
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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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