Micro-agricultural water management technologies for food security in southern Africa: part of the solution or a red herring?
This paper is based on a review of experiences with a wide range of micro- agricultural water management technologies in Sub-Saharan Africa with a special emphasis on southern Africa. The major finding of the study is that these technologies have the potential to make major contributions to improvin...
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| author | Merrey, Douglas J. Sally, Hilmy |
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| description | This paper is based on a review of experiences with a wide range of micro- agricultural water management technologies in Sub-Saharan Africa with a special emphasis on southern Africa. The major finding of the study is that these technologies have the potential to make major contributions to improving food security, reducing rural poverty and promoting broad-based agricultural growth. However, there are serious policy impediments to successfully scaling out the use of these technologies at both national and regional levels. The paper makes seven specific policy recommendations whose implementation would enable promotion of wider uptake. |
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| spelling | CGSpace407422021-10-07T20:47:45Z Micro-agricultural water management technologies for food security in southern Africa: part of the solution or a red herring? Merrey, Douglas J. Sally, Hilmy farmer-led irrigation food security irrigation management policy drip irrigation manual pumps This paper is based on a review of experiences with a wide range of micro- agricultural water management technologies in Sub-Saharan Africa with a special emphasis on southern Africa. The major finding of the study is that these technologies have the potential to make major contributions to improving food security, reducing rural poverty and promoting broad-based agricultural growth. However, there are serious policy impediments to successfully scaling out the use of these technologies at both national and regional levels. The paper makes seven specific policy recommendations whose implementation would enable promotion of wider uptake. 2008 2014-06-13T14:48:18Z 2014-06-13T14:48:18Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/40742 en Limited Access Merrey, D. J.; Sally, Hilmy. 2008. Micro-agricultural water management technologies for food security in southern Africa: part of the solution or a red herring? Water Policy, 10:515?530. |
| spellingShingle | farmer-led irrigation food security irrigation management policy drip irrigation manual pumps Merrey, Douglas J. Sally, Hilmy Micro-agricultural water management technologies for food security in southern Africa: part of the solution or a red herring? |
| title | Micro-agricultural water management technologies for food security in southern Africa: part of the solution or a red herring? |
| title_full | Micro-agricultural water management technologies for food security in southern Africa: part of the solution or a red herring? |
| title_fullStr | Micro-agricultural water management technologies for food security in southern Africa: part of the solution or a red herring? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Micro-agricultural water management technologies for food security in southern Africa: part of the solution or a red herring? |
| title_short | Micro-agricultural water management technologies for food security in southern Africa: part of the solution or a red herring? |
| title_sort | micro agricultural water management technologies for food security in southern africa part of the solution or a red herring |
| topic | farmer-led irrigation food security irrigation management policy drip irrigation manual pumps |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/40742 |
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