An Assessment of the financial viability and income impact of small scale irrigation in Ethiopia
Recently, there has been very little irrigation development in Sub-Saharan Africa. The main reasons cited for this lack of interest in developing irrigation in Sub-Saharan Africa is that irrigation projects are expensive and perform poorly compared to projects from other regions. However, when class...
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| author | Makombe, Godswill Hagos, Fitsum Namara, Regassa E. Awulachew, Seleshi Bekele |
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| description | Recently, there has been very little irrigation development in Sub-Saharan Africa. The main reasons cited for this lack of interest in developing irrigation in Sub-Saharan Africa is that irrigation projects are expensive and perform poorly compared to projects from other regions. However, when classified into success and failure projects, the Sub-Saharan Africa success projects? investment costs are not significantly higher than from other regions. African countries like Ethiopia, which has embarked on an agricultural led development program, aspire to use irrigation as a development strategy with small scale irrigation playing a key role in rural development. This study evaluates the financial performance of small scale irrigation using O & M and investment recovery, and the ability to replicate the investments. It is concluded that the systems are financially viable and provide a low cost development option for rural areas. |
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| spelling | CGSpace382482025-11-07T08:33:52Z An Assessment of the financial viability and income impact of small scale irrigation in Ethiopia Makombe, Godswill Hagos, Fitsum Namara, Regassa E. Awulachew, Seleshi Bekele irrigation systems small scale systems investment Recently, there has been very little irrigation development in Sub-Saharan Africa. The main reasons cited for this lack of interest in developing irrigation in Sub-Saharan Africa is that irrigation projects are expensive and perform poorly compared to projects from other regions. However, when classified into success and failure projects, the Sub-Saharan Africa success projects? investment costs are not significantly higher than from other regions. African countries like Ethiopia, which has embarked on an agricultural led development program, aspire to use irrigation as a development strategy with small scale irrigation playing a key role in rural development. This study evaluates the financial performance of small scale irrigation using O & M and investment recovery, and the ability to replicate the investments. It is concluded that the systems are financially viable and provide a low cost development option for rural areas. 2008 2014-06-13T11:41:00Z 2014-06-13T11:41:00Z Conference Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/38248 en Open Access application/pdf Makombe, Godswill; Hagos, Fitsum; Namara, Regassa; Awulachew, Seleshi Bekele. 2008. An Assessment of the financial viability and income impact of small scale irrigation in Ethiopia. In Awulachew, Seleshi Bekele; Loulseged, Makonnen; Yilma, Aster Denekew (Comps.). Impact of irrigation on poverty and environment in Ethiopia: draft proceedings of the symposium and exhibition, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 27-29 November 2007. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). pp.117-126. |
| spellingShingle | irrigation systems small scale systems investment Makombe, Godswill Hagos, Fitsum Namara, Regassa E. Awulachew, Seleshi Bekele An Assessment of the financial viability and income impact of small scale irrigation in Ethiopia |
| title | An Assessment of the financial viability and income impact of small scale irrigation in Ethiopia |
| title_full | An Assessment of the financial viability and income impact of small scale irrigation in Ethiopia |
| title_fullStr | An Assessment of the financial viability and income impact of small scale irrigation in Ethiopia |
| title_full_unstemmed | An Assessment of the financial viability and income impact of small scale irrigation in Ethiopia |
| title_short | An Assessment of the financial viability and income impact of small scale irrigation in Ethiopia |
| title_sort | assessment of the financial viability and income impact of small scale irrigation in ethiopia |
| topic | irrigation systems small scale systems investment |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/38248 |
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