An increasing number of smallholder farmers engage in irrigation using their own resources. They buy or rent irrigation equipment and draw water from nearby sources without depending on or without interference from public agencies or water user associations. The individualization of Agricultural ...
Fraiture, Charlotte de
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Giordano, Meredith A.
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[Small private irrigation: a thriving but overlooked sector]
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Small private irrigation: a thriving but overlooked sector
Millions of smallholder farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia benefit from readily available and affordable irrigation technologies. The rapid uptake of small private irrigation in South Asia had a proven positive effect on poverty alleviation. In Sub-Saharan Africa similar trends are emer...
Giordano, Meredith A.
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Fraiture, Charlotte de
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[Small private irrigation: enhancing benefits and managing trade-offs]
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Small private irrigation: enhancing benefits and managing trade-offs
The expansion of irrigation in Sub-Saharan Africa has been slow. In Asia, the rapid expansion of smallholder irrigation systems was attributed in part to the availability and affordability of motorized pumps. This paper appraises the current extent of pump-based irrigation in Sub-Saharan Africa; ...
Namara, Regassa E.
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Gebregziabher, Gebrehaweria
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Giordano, Meredith A.
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Fraiture, Charlotte de
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[Small pumps and poor farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa: an assessment of current extent of use and poverty outreach]
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Small pumps and poor farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa: an assessment of current extent of use and poverty outreach
Fraiture, Charlotte de
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Rubiano Mejía, Jorge Eliécer
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Álvarez, C.
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[Actual versus potential water use: in Cabuyal watershed - Colombia]
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Actual versus potential water use: in Cabuyal watershed - Colombia
Irrigation is a priority development agenda item in Ghana and other countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. There is a genuine endeavor to increase public and large-scale private investment in the sector. The on-going small holder-driven private irrigation development that is largely based on water lift...
Namara, Regassa E.
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Hope, Lesley
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Sarpong, E.O.
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Fraiture, Charlotte de
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Owusu, D.
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[Adoption patterns and constraints pertaining to small-scale water lifting technologies in Ghana]
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Adoption patterns and constraints pertaining to small-scale water lifting technologies in Ghana
Fraiture, Charlotte de
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Álvarez, C.
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Rubiano Mejía, Jorge Eliécer
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[Investigación sobre aprovechamiento de aguas de escorrentía para proyectos de riego en zonas de ladera : informe final (diciembre 20 de 1996)]
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Investigación sobre aprovechamiento de aguas de escorrentía para proyectos de riego en zonas de ladera : informe final (diciembre 20 de 1996)
Fifteen years after the successful introduction of treadle pumps for small farm irrigation in the North Bengal region of India, the socio-economic and technological landscape has changed dramatically. However, donors have continued to support treadle pump programs. Revisiting the factors that con...
Malik, Ravinder Paul Singh
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Fraiture, Charlotte de
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Ray, D.
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[Technologies for smallholder irrigation appropriate for whom: promoters or beneficiaries?]
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Technologies for smallholder irrigation appropriate for whom: promoters or beneficiaries?
Venot, Jean-Philippe
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Zwarteveen, M.Z.
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Kuper, M.
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Boesveld, H.
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Kooij, S. van der
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Wanvoeke, J.
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Benouniche, M.
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Errahj, M.
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Fraiture, Charlotte de
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Verma, S.
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[Beyond the promises of technology: A review of the discourses and actors who make drip irrigation.]
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Beyond the promises of technology: A review of the discourses and actors who make drip irrigation.