WLE/ICRISAT integrates smart water management tools and Innovation Platforms in small-scale Zimbabwean irrigation schemes to deliver enhanced water productivity, incomes, and conflict reduction

The combined use of Agricultural Innovation Platforms and smart water management tools in two small-scale communal irrigation schemes in Zimbabwe, resulted in major improvements in water and land productivity, household incomes, and reductions in conflict levels. As a result, the Director of Irrigat...

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Autor principal: CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems
Formato: Case Study
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/121799
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Sumario:The combined use of Agricultural Innovation Platforms and smart water management tools in two small-scale communal irrigation schemes in Zimbabwe, resulted in major improvements in water and land productivity, household incomes, and reductions in conflict levels. As a result, the Director of Irrigation with support from the Australian Council for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) agreed to fund a second project that is extending the model to 30 more irrigation schemes, covering 757 ha and 1698 farmers.