Unlocking the potential of farmer-led irrigation development in central and northern Nigeria: What does it take?
The potential for profitable groundwater irrigated area development in Nigeria is 5.04 million hectares (ha), almost all of it located in the country’s central and northern states. To develop this vast area, granular water budgets, financial service provision and support to grow sustainability of pr...
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| author | Xie, Hua Schmitter, Petra S. Obayelu, A. E. Kato, Edward Balana, Bedru Ringler, Claudia |
| author_browse | Balana, Bedru Kato, Edward Obayelu, A. E. Ringler, Claudia Schmitter, Petra S. Xie, Hua |
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| description | The potential for profitable groundwater irrigated area development in Nigeria is 5.04 million hectares (ha), almost all of it located in the country’s central and northern states. To develop this vast area, granular water budgets, financial service provision and support to grow sustainability of production will be needed. Increasing temperature, erratic rainfall, and other extreme events, such as floods and droughts, pose severe threats to development in Nigeria, and particularly in central and northern Nigeria where rainfall is limited, natural resources are threatened by degradation and agriculture, including livestock production, is the major economic driver. Climate change has significant adverse impacts on agricultural production and livelihoods, making the regions’ poor and disadvantaged people even more vulnerable. Agricultural productivity is already affected by climate extreme events and further land expansion would increase degradation and deforestation. At the same time, the central and northern regions of the country are blessed with substantial underground water resources that have been barely tapped. At this point, the potential of farmer-led irrigation, a system where farmers acquire the irrigation technology and access to a water source themselves, is barely exploited. What role could farmer-led, small-scale irrigation play in growing agricultural productivity, rural employment and incomes, and reducing climate stress? And what mechanisms are needed to make this happen? |
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| spelling | CGSpace1403672025-11-07T08:03:03Z Unlocking the potential of farmer-led irrigation development in central and northern Nigeria: What does it take? Xie, Hua Schmitter, Petra S. Obayelu, A. E. Kato, Edward Balana, Bedru Ringler, Claudia natural resources groundwater sustainability agriculture extreme weather events irrigation budgets drought livelihoods climate change The potential for profitable groundwater irrigated area development in Nigeria is 5.04 million hectares (ha), almost all of it located in the country’s central and northern states. To develop this vast area, granular water budgets, financial service provision and support to grow sustainability of production will be needed. Increasing temperature, erratic rainfall, and other extreme events, such as floods and droughts, pose severe threats to development in Nigeria, and particularly in central and northern Nigeria where rainfall is limited, natural resources are threatened by degradation and agriculture, including livestock production, is the major economic driver. Climate change has significant adverse impacts on agricultural production and livelihoods, making the regions’ poor and disadvantaged people even more vulnerable. Agricultural productivity is already affected by climate extreme events and further land expansion would increase degradation and deforestation. At the same time, the central and northern regions of the country are blessed with substantial underground water resources that have been barely tapped. At this point, the potential of farmer-led irrigation, a system where farmers acquire the irrigation technology and access to a water source themselves, is barely exploited. What role could farmer-led, small-scale irrigation play in growing agricultural productivity, rural employment and incomes, and reducing climate stress? And what mechanisms are needed to make this happen? 2023-08-18 2024-03-14T12:09:25Z 2024-03-14T12:09:25Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/140367 en https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agwat.2017.08.020 Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Xie, Hua; Schmitter, Petra; Obayelu, A. E.; Kato, Edward; Balana, Bedru; and Ringler, Claudia. 2023. Unlocking the potential of farmer-led irrigation development in central and northern Nigeria: What does it take? Nexus Gains Initiative Technical Summary August 2023. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.136842. |
| spellingShingle | natural resources groundwater sustainability agriculture extreme weather events irrigation budgets drought livelihoods climate change Xie, Hua Schmitter, Petra S. Obayelu, A. E. Kato, Edward Balana, Bedru Ringler, Claudia Unlocking the potential of farmer-led irrigation development in central and northern Nigeria: What does it take? |
| title | Unlocking the potential of farmer-led irrigation development in central and northern Nigeria: What does it take? |
| title_full | Unlocking the potential of farmer-led irrigation development in central and northern Nigeria: What does it take? |
| title_fullStr | Unlocking the potential of farmer-led irrigation development in central and northern Nigeria: What does it take? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Unlocking the potential of farmer-led irrigation development in central and northern Nigeria: What does it take? |
| title_short | Unlocking the potential of farmer-led irrigation development in central and northern Nigeria: What does it take? |
| title_sort | unlocking the potential of farmer led irrigation development in central and northern nigeria what does it take |
| topic | natural resources groundwater sustainability agriculture extreme weather events irrigation budgets drought livelihoods climate change |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/140367 |
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