relation: http://oar.icrisat.org/11653/
title: Exploring the factors causing the poor performance of most irrigation schemes in post-independence sub-Saharan Africa
creator: Bjornlund, V
creator: Bjornlund, H
creator: van Rooyen, A F
subject: Rural Development
subject: Agriculture-Farming, Production, Technology, Economics
subject: Water Resources
description: This article explores the factors causing the current poor performance  of most government irrigation schemes in sub-Saharan  Africa. The literature review finds that the poor performance is not  primarily caused by socioeconomic and biophysical conditions  inherent to sub-Saharan Africa. African farmers have adapted to  diverse biophysical conditions and expanded or contracted their  area under agricultural water management in response to market  signals. Rather, this poor performance is predominantly linked to  the production systems introduced during colonialism and developments  since independence, such as agricultural policies restraining  rural economic development, unsuitable irrigation technologies  and agricultural practices, and international lending practices and  trade arrangements.
publisher: Routledge
date: 2020-09
type: Article
type: PeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
language: en
identifier: http://oar.icrisat.org/11653/1/Exploring%20the%20factors%20causing%20the%20poor%20performance%20of%20most%20irrigation%20schemes%20in%20post%20independence%20sub%20Saharan%20Africa.pdf
identifier:   Bjornlund, V and Bjornlund, H and van Rooyen, A F  (2020) Exploring the factors causing the poor performance of most irrigation schemes in post-independence sub-Saharan Africa.  International Journal of Water Resources Development (TSI), 36 (51).  S54-S101.  ISSN 0790-0627     
relation: https://doi.org/10.1080/07900627.2020.1808448
relation: doi:10.1080/07900627.2020.1808448