Opportunities for private sector participation in agricultural water development and management

Irrigation management / Private sector / Public sector / Public policy / Private investment / Participatory management / Privatization / Financing / Farmers / Households / Water harvesting / Africa South of Sahara

Improving irrigation project planning and implementation processes in Sub-Saharan Africa: Diagnosis and recommendations

Irrigation programs / Planning / Financing / Financial institutions / Irrigation management / Operations / Maintenance / Privatization / Cost recovery

Farmer-based financing of operations in the Niger Valley irrigation schemes.

Irrigation management / Irrigation systems / River basin development / Sustainability / Water resources development / Low-lift irrigation / Low-lift pumps / Farmer managed irrigation systems / Farmers' associations / Institution building / Privatization / Performance evaluation / Constraints / Case studies / Financing / Costs / Climate / Food production / Niger

Private irrigation in Sub-Saharan Africa: regional Seminar on Private Sector Participation and Irrigation Expansion in Sub-Saharan Africa, Accra, Ghana, 22-26 October 2001

Irrigation management / Privatization / Irrigated farming / Financing / Irrigation systems / Gender / Women / Government managed irrigation systems / Farmer managed irrigation systems / Rice / Horticulture / Technology transfer / Pumps / Drip irrigation / Filtration / Capacity building / Urban agriculture / Poverty / Water users associations / Agricultural credit

Water security for food security: gaps, needs and potential for growth in Sub-Saharan Africa

Food securityWater supplyWater scarcityInfrastructureClimateEnergy resourcesWater power

Réutilisation des Eaux Usées en Agriculture Urbaine : un défi pour les municipalités en Afrique de l’Ouest et du Centre

Du lundi 03 au vendredi 07 juin 2002 s’est tenu la Visite d’Etude/ Atelier International sur la Réutilisation des eaux usées en agriculture urbaine : un défi pour les municipalités en Afrique de l’Ouest et du Centre, au Centre Régional pour l’Eau Potable et l’Assainissement (CREPA)- siège à Ouagadougou au Burkina Faso et à quatre sites d’exploitation agricole à Ouagadougou. Cette visite d’étude a eu lieu grace au financement du Centre Technique de Coopération Agricole et Rurale (CTA) dans l’objectif d’intensifier l'échange d'informations entre acteurs dans le secteur agricole. La visite d’étude / atelier organisé par le CREPA et l’ETC-RUAF est un cadre d’échanges d’expériences et de discussion entre les différents acteurs a enregistré la participation active et effective de plus d’une trentaine de participants venus de 10 pays (Bénin, Burkina Faso, Cameroun, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Mali, Mauritanie, Niger, Sénégal et des Pays-Bas) et représentant plusieurs institutions. Les objectifs poursuivis sont : accroître les connaissances des participants sur les aspects socio-économique, légal et institutionnel de la réutilisation des eaux usées ; identifier des stratégies efficaces en vue de promouvoir la réutilisation saine des eaux usées et atténuer les risques sanitaires et environnementaux ; faciliter l’intégration de l’agriculture urbaine saine basée sur la réutilisation des eaux usées dans les politiques et plans d’action de gestion des déchets, de la santé et de la sécurité alimentaire en milieu urbain .Visite d’étude et Atelier Internationa

Costs and performance of irrigation projects: A comparison of Sub-Saharan Africa and other developing regions

Poverty / Mapping

A Decade of Science, Innovation and Transformation: CCAFS Impact In East Africa

This legacy document is intended to capture the key outcomes and highlight the impact of the CCAFS East Africa regional program over the past decade. The reporting is structured around the Strategic Research Pillars detailed in the CCAFS-EA Strategy 2019–2021, apart from the fact that aspects related to Gender, Youth and Socially Inclusive Growth (Pillar 4) are not treated separately but integrated into the other three pillars.The report also highlights the influence and likely contributions of CCAFS East Africa to upcoming endeavors such as OneCGIAR, Accelerating the Impact of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa (AICCRA), and the Two Degree Initiative for Food and Agriculture (2DI)

Analysis of water delivery performance of smallholder irrigation schemes in Ethiopia: Diversity and lessons across schemes, typologies and reaches

Irrigation systems consist of three interdependent components involving: the irrigation scheme, the on-farm management and the organizations. The irrigation scheme refers to the infrastructure for water acquisition and distribution (water delivery). This study focused on water delivery performance of 10 smallholders irrigation schemes in four regions of Ethiopia, representing diverse water sources, distribution systems, command areas (50–6000 ha) and number of beneficiary farmers (233–500 farm households) and across agro-ecologies as represented by elevation ranges (1500–2725 masl). Relative irrigation supply (RIS), irrigation intensity (Ii), cropping intensity (CI), farm level adequacy (FLA), sustainability of irrigated land (SIL), and equity and field application efficiency were employed as performance indicators. The study involved focus group discussions, household surveys and measurements of water flow across selected points of water delivery systems during 2014/2015 cropping season. More than 300 sample farmers were selected randomly from different reaches (head, mid and tail) of the schemes and before the analysis the 10 irrigation schemes were clustered into three typologies (modern, semi-modern and traditional schemes) using seven comprehensive and weighted indicators. The result showed that irrigation typology developed in this study enabled to identify three relatively homogeneous irrigation schemes typologies: modern, semi-modern and traditional. There was apparent diversity of the study schemes in terms of indicators used. At typology level, as illustrated by the RIS, the highest amount of water was diverted for semi-modern schemes (RIS of 3.84); while the highest water delivery at farm relative delivery (FRD) was recorded for the modern schemes (FRD 2.21). Traditional schemes consistently showed lower value for both RIS and FRD. Regardless of their typologies, all study schemes suffer from mismatch of water demand and supply. The lower the RIS and FRD values, the stronger was the water supply disparities between irrigation reaches. Assessment of farmers’ perception on fairness of irrigation water delivery substantiate these arguments. Implicitly, it is important to track the fate of diverted excess water. Field observation and empirical evidences show divergent points of losses of excess water indicating focus areas of improved water conservation on smallholder irrigation schemes. For example the largest proportion of over supplied water (~100%) in the semimodern schemes and in traditional schemes was lost in the conveyance and distribution systems. For modern schemes water losses in the processes of conveyance was low (26%), while the significant proportion of water (76%) was lost on farm. In view of this evidence, we concluded that irrigation schemes in Ethiopia, regardless of their typology, have low water delivery performance. As every scheme has shown its own strength and weakness, concluding sustainability in terms of typology is misleading and this suggests that policy directions should be based on composite sustainability indices

The problem of maintenance in the context of self-management of small-scale irrigation schemes

Sally, H. (Ed.), Ameliorer les performances des perimetres irrigues: Les actes du Seminaire Regional du Project Management de l'Irrigation au Burkina Faso, 24-26 Juillet 1996, Ouagadougou. Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso: IIMI. Burkina Fas