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datestamp: 2017-05-22 05:25:32
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creators_name: Pittock, J
creators_name: Bjornlund, H
creators_name: Stirzaker, R
creators_name: Van Rooyen, A F
icrisatcreators_name: Van Rooyen, A F
affiliation: Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University (Canberra)
affiliation: School of Commerce, University of South Australia Business School (Adelaide)
affiliation: CSIRO Agriculture (Canberra)
affiliation: ICRISAT (Bulawayo)
country: Australia
country: Zimbabwe
title: Communal irrigation systems in South-Eastern Africa: findings on productivity and profitability
ispublished: pub
subjects: s17
subjects: s23
subjects: s28
divisions: CRPS5
crps: crp1.13
full_text_status: public
keywords: Africa; agriculture; governance; market access; smallholder irrigation; water productivity
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].
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.
date: 2017
date_type: published
publication: International Journal of Water Resources Development
volume: 33
number: 5
publisher: Taylor & Francis
pagerange: 839-847
id_number: 10.1080/07900627.2017.1324768
refereed: TRUE
issn: 0790-0627
official_url: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07900627.2017.1324768
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funders: Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR)
citation:   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     
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