Agricultural water storage in an era of climate change: assessing need and effectiveness in Africa
By mitigating the vagaries of climate variability, agricultural water storage is widely anticipated to make a key contribution to climate change adaptation in Africa. However, if the planning of water storage is not improved, it is likely that many investments will fail to fully deliver intended ben...
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International Water Management Institute
2013
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| author | McCartney, Matthew P. Rebelo, Lisa-Maria Xenarios, Stefanos Smakhtin, Vladimir U. |
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| author_facet | McCartney, Matthew P. Rebelo, Lisa-Maria Xenarios, Stefanos Smakhtin, Vladimir U. |
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| description | By mitigating the vagaries of climate variability, agricultural water storage is widely anticipated to make a key contribution to climate change adaptation in Africa. However, if the planning of water storage is not improved, it is likely that many investments will fail to fully deliver intended benefits. This report describes the agricultural water storage continuum and some of the possible implications of climate change. A simple diagnostic tool which can be used to provide a rapid evaluation of the need and effectiveness of different water storage options, under existing and possible future climate conditions, is presented. |
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| spelling | CGSpace399382025-11-07T08:44:27Z Agricultural water storage in an era of climate change: assessing need and effectiveness in Africa McCartney, Matthew P. Rebelo, Lisa-Maria Xenarios, Stefanos Smakhtin, Vladimir U. agriculture water resources water storage ponds tanks aquifers reservoirs indicators climate change rain river basins soil moisture socioeconomic environment population density poverty By mitigating the vagaries of climate variability, agricultural water storage is widely anticipated to make a key contribution to climate change adaptation in Africa. However, if the planning of water storage is not improved, it is likely that many investments will fail to fully deliver intended benefits. This report describes the agricultural water storage continuum and some of the possible implications of climate change. A simple diagnostic tool which can be used to provide a rapid evaluation of the need and effectiveness of different water storage options, under existing and possible future climate conditions, is presented. 2013 2014-06-13T14:29:43Z 2014-06-13T14:29:43Z Report https://hdl.handle.net/10568/39938 en Open Access application/pdf International Water Management Institute McCartney, Matthew; Rebelo, Lisa-Maria; Xenarios, Stefanos; Smakhtin, Vladimir. 2013. Agricultural water storage in an era of climate change: assessing need and effectiveness in Africa. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). 37p. (IWMI Research Report 152) doi: https://doi.org/10.5337/2013.207 |
| spellingShingle | agriculture water resources water storage ponds tanks aquifers reservoirs indicators climate change rain river basins soil moisture socioeconomic environment population density poverty McCartney, Matthew P. Rebelo, Lisa-Maria Xenarios, Stefanos Smakhtin, Vladimir U. Agricultural water storage in an era of climate change: assessing need and effectiveness in Africa |
| title | Agricultural water storage in an era of climate change: assessing need and effectiveness in Africa |
| title_full | Agricultural water storage in an era of climate change: assessing need and effectiveness in Africa |
| title_fullStr | Agricultural water storage in an era of climate change: assessing need and effectiveness in Africa |
| title_full_unstemmed | Agricultural water storage in an era of climate change: assessing need and effectiveness in Africa |
| title_short | Agricultural water storage in an era of climate change: assessing need and effectiveness in Africa |
| title_sort | agricultural water storage in an era of climate change assessing need and effectiveness in africa |
| topic | agriculture water resources water storage ponds tanks aquifers reservoirs indicators climate change rain river basins soil moisture socioeconomic environment population density poverty |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/39938 |
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