TY  - JOUR
N2  - Smallholder irrigation is an important pathway towards better livelihoods and food security in sub-Saharan Africa. This article assesses the contribution of farmer-friendly soil and water monitoring tools, and agricultural innovation platforms, towards household income
and food security in two small-scale irrigation schemes in Tanzania. Quantitative and qualitative data from farmer?s field books, household surveys and focus groups were used to assess the impacts of the two interventions. The two interventions together contributed to enhancing smallholders? food security and household income in the
two schemes, as did the agricultural innovation platform on its own.
N1  - This research was part of the projects Increasing Irrigation Water Productivity in Mozambique,
Tanzania and Zimbabwe through on-Farm Monitoring, Adaptive Management and Agricultural
Innovation Platforms (FSC-2013-006) and Transforming Smallholder Irrigation into Profitable and
Self-Sustaining Systems in Southern Africa (LWR/2016/137), both funded by the Australian Centre
for International Agricultural Research and participating organizations. We thank the two reviewers
for constructive comments, which improved the final manuscript considerably. We also thank Ms.
Karen Parry for her assistance in editing and structuring the article.
AV  - public
KW  - Smallholder irrigators
KW  -  Monitoring tools
KW  -  Agricultural
innovation platforms
KW  -  Food security
KW  -  Income
KW  -  Tanzania
A1  - Mdemu, M
A1  - Kissoly, L
A1  - Bjornlund, H
A1  - Kimaro, E
A1  - Christen, E W
A1  - van Rooyen, A
A1  - Stirzaker, R
A1  - Ramshaw, P
TI  - The role of soil water monitoring tools and agricultural innovation platforms in improving food security and income of farmers in smallholder irrigation schemes in Tanzania
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1080/07900627.2020.1765746
JF  - International Journal of Water Resources Development (TSI)
SP  - 1
Y1  - 2020/06//
ID  - icrisat11539
EP  - 23
SN  - 0790-0627
PB  - Routledge
ER  -