The objective of the project was to identify investment options and opportunities in agricultural water management with the greatest potential to improve incomes and food security for poor farmers. Participatory opportunity and constraint analysis and methodology was used in the field-scale and c...
Gonsalves, Julian
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[Participatory opportunity and constraint analysis and methodology in the conduct of field-scale and community-level case studies for the AgWater Solutions project]
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Participatory opportunity and constraint analysis and methodology in the conduct of field-scale and community-level case studies for the AgWater Solutions project
Rapid rural appraisal was used in the first phase of the research, which covered 5 administrative regions in Tanzania (over 200 farmers from 10 irrigation schemes). The major finding was that investing in improvements to existing community-managed river diversion irrigation schemes can lead to ga...
Gonsalves, Julian
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[Rapid rural appraisal as research methodology in assessing impacts of community managed river diversions in Tanzania for the AgWater Solutions project]
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Rapid rural appraisal as research methodology in assessing impacts of community managed river diversions in Tanzania for the AgWater Solutions project
The tool is used for identifying the constraints of irrigation systems and implementing appropriate interventions. Water professionals such as irrigation engineers in Burkina Faso and Niger were trained on participatory diagnostic tools through the West African Irrigation Project (WAIPRO).
Gonsalves, Julian
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[Participatory diagnostic tools under the West African Irrigation Project (WAIPRO)]
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Participatory diagnostic tools under the West African Irrigation Project (WAIPRO)
Moroccan farmers are becoming more involved in managing supply chains, notably through local and regional cooperatives, particularly for milk. However, despite the state’s attempts to transfer responsibilities to associations of water users, it retains control of large-scale irrigation schemes. I...
Harvey, Blane
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Ensor, Jonathan
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Garside, Ben
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Woodend, John
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Naess, Lars Otto
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Carlile, Liz
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[Developing self-perpetuating social learning: moving from constructive intervention to more autonomous group learning for drip irrigation in Morocco]
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Developing self-perpetuating social learning: moving from constructive intervention to more autonomous group learning for drip irrigation in Morocco
Key approaches and tools applied by IWMI for the verification of research messages. The world cafes brought together farmers, traders and street food vendors to openly discuss proposed improvements in current practices and their potential for wider uptake. For enhanced mutual learning, road shows...
Gonsalves, Julian
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[From world cafés to road shows: using a mix of knowledge sharing approaches to improve wastewater use in urban agriculture]
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From world cafés to road shows: using a mix of knowledge sharing approaches to improve wastewater use in urban agriculture
This paper discusses the history of irrigation development and related land allocation in the Bagré area in the South of Burkina Faso. It specifically analyses current processes at play as part of the recent Bagré Growth Pole Project implemented by the government of Burkina Faso with support of t...
Venot, Jean-Philippe
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Daré, William
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Kabore, Etienne
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Francoise, Gerard
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Tapsoba, Abdoulaye
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Idani, Donatien
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Carboni, Simone
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[Ideologies. Development models and irrigated land tenure: the bagré irrigation project in Burkina faso]
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Ideologies. Development models and irrigated land tenure: the bagré irrigation project in Burkina faso