relation: http://oar.icrisat.org/10014/
title: Communal irrigation systems in South-Eastern Africa: findings on productivity and profitability
creator: Pittock, J
creator: Bjornlund, H
creator: Stirzaker, R
creator: Van Rooyen, A F
subject: Irrigation
subject: Water Resources
subject: African Agriculture
description: 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.
publisher: Taylor & Francis
date: 2017
type: Article
type: PeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
language: en
identifier: http://oar.icrisat.org/10014/1/2017-5-22_Communal.pdf
identifier:   Pittock, J and Bjornlund, H and Stirzaker, R and Van Rooyen, A F  (2017) Communal irrigation systems in South-Eastern Africa: findings on productivity and profitability.  International Journal of Water Resources Development, 33 (5).  pp. 839-847.  ISSN 0790-0627     
relation: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07900627.2017.1324768
relation: 10.1080/07900627.2017.1324768