| Summary: | The Challenge of Integrated Water Resource Management for Improved Rural Livelihoods:
Managing Risk, Mitigating Drought and Improving Water Productivity in the Water Scarce Limpopo
Basin: Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) is a systems approach to water
management, based on the principle of managing the full water cycle. It is required, not only to
balance water for food and nature, but also to unlock paths to sustainable development. A global
hotspot area in terms of water for food and improved livelihoods is in the poverty stricken rural
areas of water scarce semi-arid tropics, such as in the Limpopo basin. The improvement in
resilience that the IWRM approach can impart to rural livelihood systems has been shown by a
series of case studies in the Limpopo Basin.
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