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Stevens, JoeKoppen, Barbara C.M. van[Trends and Outlook: Agricultural Water Management in southern Africa. Country report - South Africa. [Project report submitted to United States Agency for International Development’s (USAID’s) Feed the Future Program].]Trends and Outlook: Agricultural Water Management in southern Africa. Country report - South Africa. [Project report submitted to United States Agency for International Development’s (USAID’s) Feed the Future Program].

Water is absent in the ‘Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of Food Security’ (FAO, 2012). This paper explored whether and how the people-centred approaches and the human rights values that underpin this document can be better...


Koppen, Barbara C.M. van[Towards voluntary guidelines for people-centred land-water tenure: the untapped synergies between rights-based land and water governance]Towards voluntary guidelines for people-centred land-water tenure: the untapped synergies between rights-based land and water governance

The UN recognition of a human right to water for drinking, personal and other domestic uses and sanitation in 2010 was a political breakthrough in states’ commitments to adopt a human rights framework in carrying out part of their mandate. This chapter explores other domains of freshwater governa...


Koppen, Barbara C.M. vanHellum, A.Mehta, L.Derman, B.Schreiner, B.[Rights-based freshwater governance for the twenty-first century: beyond an exclusionary focus on domestic water uses]Rights-based freshwater governance for the twenty-first century: beyond an exclusionary focus on domestic water uses
Koppen, Barbara C.M. vanDerman, B.Schreiner, B.Durojaye, E.Mweso, N.[Fixing the leaks in women's human rights to water: lessons from South Africa]Fixing the leaks in women's human rights to water: lessons from South Africa
Koppen, Barbara C.M. vanSmits, S.Rio, C.R. delThomas, J.[Scaling up multiple use water services: accountability in the water sector]Scaling up multiple use water services: accountability in the water sector
Movik, S.Mehta, L.Koppen, Barbara C.M. vanDenby, K.[Emergence, interpretation and translations of IWRM in South Africa]Emergence, interpretation and translations of IWRM in South Africa

The historical legacy in South Africa of apartheid and the resulting discriminatory policies and power imbalances are critical to understanding how water is managed and allocated, and how people participate in designated water governance structures. The progressive post-apartheid National Water A...


Denby, K.Movik, S.Mehta, L.Koppen, Barbara C.M. van[The 'Trickle Down' of IWRM: a case study of local-level realities in the Inkomati Water Management Area, South Africa]The 'Trickle Down' of IWRM: a case study of local-level realities in the Inkomati Water Management Area, South Africa

South Africa is often regarded to be at the forefront of water reform, based on Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) ideas. This paper explores how the idea of IWRM emerged in South Africa, its key debates and interpretations and how it has been translated. It maps out the history, main e...


Movik, S.Mehta, L.Koppen, Barbara C.M. van[Emergence, interpretations and translations of IWRM [Integrated Water Resources Management] in South Africa]Emergence, interpretations and translations of IWRM [Integrated Water Resources Management] in South Africa

Millions of small-scale farmers in sub-Saharan Africa who are driving farmer-led irrigation development (FLID) have been turned into criminal offenders or, at least, categorically marginalised under widespread water permit systems. Under these systems, small-scale water users are obliged to apply...


Koppen, Barbara C.M. vanSchreiner, B.[A hybrid approach to statutory water law to support smallholder farmer-led irrigation development (FLID) in Sub-Saharan Africa]A hybrid approach to statutory water law to support smallholder farmer-led irrigation development (FLID) in Sub-Saharan Africa

In recent decades, many countries in sub-Saharan Africa have pursued national water permit systems, derived from the colonial era and reinforced by “global best practice.” These systems have proved logistically impossible to manage and have worsened inequality in water access. A new study conduct...


Koppen, Barbara C.M. vanSchreiner, B.[A hybrid approach to decolonize formal water law in Africa]A hybrid approach to decolonize formal water law in Africa

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