Limpopo Basin Development Challenge

Limpopo Basin The Limpopo is a relatively dry basin and most water in the more productive areas is already claimed. Rainfall is highly variable and in many parts of the basin there is little run-off with which to produce crops and livestock. The basin is a water-scarce environment in which recurrin...

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Autor principal: CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food
Formato: Brochure
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/34337
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Sumario:Limpopo Basin The Limpopo is a relatively dry basin and most water in the more productive areas is already claimed. Rainfall is highly variable and in many parts of the basin there is little run-off with which to produce crops and livestock. The basin is a water-scarce environment in which recurring drought and floods cause devastating impacts on the livelihoods of small-scale, subsistence farmers. However, the more pressing development challenge in these farming systems is the unproductive use of water in the more normal rainfall seasons which are much more prevalent.