Improved Agricultural Water Management for Africa’s Drylands

Dryland regions in Sub-Saharan Africa are home to one-half of the region’s population and three-quarters of its poor. Poor both in natural resources and in assets and income, the inhabitants of drylands are highly vulnerable to droughts and other shocks. Despite a long history of interventions by...

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Main Authors:	Ward, Christopher, Torquebiau, Raphael, Xie, Hua
Format:	Book
Language:	English en_US
Published:	Washington, DC: World Bank 2016
Subjects:	WATER IRRIGATION AGRICULTURE AGRICULTURAL WATER MANAGEMENT WATER CONSERVATION VULNERABILITY WATER HARVESTING RESILIENCE DROUGHT DRYLANDS LIVELIHOODS
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/24816

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spelling	okr-10986-248162021-05-25T08:50:24Z Improved Agricultural Water Management for Africa’s Drylands Ward, Christopher Torquebiau, Raphael Xie, Hua WATER IRRIGATION AGRICULTURE AGRICULTURAL WATER MANAGEMENT WATER CONSERVATION VULNERABILITY WATER HARVESTING RESILIENCE DROUGHT DRYLANDS LIVELIHOODS Dryland regions in Sub-Saharan Africa are home to one-half of the region’s population and three-quarters of its poor. Poor both in natural resources and in assets and income, the inhabitants of drylands are highly vulnerable to droughts and other shocks. Despite a long history of interventions by governments, development agencies, and civil society organizations, there have been no sustained large-scale successes toward improving the resilience of drylands dwellers. Improved Agricultural Water Management for Africa’s Drylands describes the extent to which agricultural water management interventions in dryland regions of Sub-Saharan Africa can enhance the resilience and improve the well-being of the people living in those regions, proposes what can realistically be done to promote improved agricultural water management, and sets out how stakeholders can make those improvements. After reviewing the current status of irrigation and agricultural water management in the drylands, the authors discuss technical, economic, and institutional challenges to expanding irrigation. A model developed at the International Food Policy Research Institute is used to project the potential for irrigation development in the Sahel Region and the Horn of Africa. The modeling results show that irrigation development in the drylands can reduce vulnerability and improve the resilience of hundreds of thousands of farming households, but rainfed agriculture will continue to dominate for the foreseeable future. Fortunately, many soil and water conservation practices that can improve the productivity and ensure the sustainability of rainfed cropping systems are available. The purpose of this book is to demonstrate the potentially highly benefi cial role of water and water management in drylands agriculture in association with agronomic improvements, market growth, and infrastructure development, and to assess the technological and socioeconomic conditions and institutional policy frameworks that can remove barriers to adoption and allow wide-scale take-up of improved agricultural water management in the dryland regions of Sub-Saharan Africa. 2016-08-08T15:03:27Z 2016-08-08T15:03:27Z 2016-08-19 Book 978-1-4648-0832-6 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/24816 English en_US World Bank Studies; CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank Washington, DC: World Bank Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Publication Africa Sahel Sub-Saharan Africa
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spellingShingle	WATER IRRIGATION AGRICULTURE AGRICULTURAL WATER MANAGEMENT WATER CONSERVATION VULNERABILITY WATER HARVESTING RESILIENCE DROUGHT DRYLANDS LIVELIHOODS Ward, Christopher Torquebiau, Raphael Xie, Hua Improved Agricultural Water Management for Africa’s Drylands
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description	Dryland regions in Sub-Saharan Africa are home to one-half of the region’s population and three-quarters of its poor. Poor both in natural resources and in assets and income, the inhabitants of drylands are highly vulnerable to droughts and other shocks. Despite a long history of interventions by governments, development agencies, and civil society organizations, there have been no sustained large-scale successes toward improving the resilience of drylands dwellers. Improved Agricultural Water Management for Africa’s Drylands describes the extent to which agricultural water management interventions in dryland regions of Sub-Saharan Africa can enhance the resilience and improve the well-being of the people living in those regions, proposes what can realistically be done to promote improved agricultural water management, and sets out how stakeholders can make those improvements. After reviewing the current status of irrigation and agricultural water management in the drylands, the authors discuss technical, economic, and institutional challenges to expanding irrigation. A model developed at the International Food Policy Research Institute is used to project the potential for irrigation development in the Sahel Region and the Horn of Africa. The modeling results show that irrigation development in the drylands can reduce vulnerability and improve the resilience of hundreds of thousands of farming households, but rainfed agriculture will continue to dominate for the foreseeable future. Fortunately, many soil and water conservation practices that can improve the productivity and ensure the sustainability of rainfed cropping systems are available. The purpose of this book is to demonstrate the potentially highly benefi cial role of water and water management in drylands agriculture in association with agronomic improvements, market growth, and infrastructure development, and to assess the technological and socioeconomic conditions and institutional policy frameworks that can remove barriers to adoption and allow wide-scale take-up of improved agricultural water management in the dryland regions of Sub-Saharan Africa.
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Improved Agricultural Water Management for Africa’s Drylands

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