@article{icrisat10014,
           title = {Communal irrigation systems in South-Eastern Africa: findings on productivity and profitability},
       publisher = {Taylor \& Francis},
            year = {2017},
          author = {J Pittock and H Bjornlund and R Stirzaker and A F Van Rooyen},
           pages = {839--847},
          volume = {33},
            note = {The research in this paper was part of the 2013-17 project, Increasing Irrigation Water Productivity
in Mozambique, Tanzania and Zimbabwe through On-Farm Monitoring, Adaptive Management and
Agricultural Innovation Platforms, partially funded by the Australian Government via the Australian
Centre for International Agricultural Research.This work was supported by the Australian Centre for 
International Agricultural Research under [grant number FSC-2013-006].},
         journal = {International Journal of Water Resources Development},
          number = {5},
        keywords = {Africa; agriculture; governance; market access; smallholder irrigation; water productivity},
             url = {http://oar.icrisat.org/10014/},
        abstract = {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.}
}