CPWF recently published the fourth paper in its research for development series, entitled ‘Evolution of Agricultural Water Management in Rainfed Crop-Livestock Systems of the Volta Basin’. The paper presents findings of a comprehensive review of more than four decades of agricultural water management work in the Volta Basin and provides [...]
Over 50 LBDC project team members and stakeholders gathered for a week of reflection in Bulawayo Zimbabwe at the half way point of the LBDC. The group included researchers, senior government officials, development partners and young professionals, whom together took stock of progress to date, emerging findings and mapped the [...]
Background: Improving agricultural productivity in rainfed systems in the Limpopo Basin requires integration and synchronization of stakeholder groups from the farm to the highest levels of international cooperation. The process involves researchers accurately portraying the evolving needs of smallholder farmers; decision makers investing in priorities that will meet those needs; policy [...]
Background: As Southern Africa moves toward integrated water resources management across basins, like the shared Limpopo, institutional, policy and legal implications emerge which will have profound effects on water users. Given that all water uses—from agriculture to domestic and industrial—are mediated by some type of water management institution, these structures [...]
Background: Mixed crop-livestock farming is the predominant system of production in the Limpopo Basin, but livestock production constitutes the main income source in these systems. It offers the most established form of market engagement by small holders and is the more resilient production system under highly variable rainfall. However, crop [...]
Background: Small-scale agricultural producers dominate rural populations in the Limpopo River Basin, an area characterized by unpredictable, unreliable and highly variable rainfall. Functioning small water infrastructure for multiple uses increases livelihood options and strategies for moving these populations out of poverty. Yet these systems rarely fulfill their design potential or [...]
Background: A majority of rural smallholder farmers in the Limpopo Basin still live in poverty, despite being within some of the most developed countries in sub-Saharan Africa. Low and highly variable rainfall combined with inadequate policy and investment context and inappropriate technology transfers limit sustainable transitions out of poverty. Researchers, [...]
Research for development in agriculture can answer pressing questions about food and water security in an increasingly changing climate, says the president and chief executive of South Africa’s Agricultural Research Council (ARC), Dr Shadrack Moephu…
Project title: Sekororo rainwater harvesting project (SG514) Introduction This project aimed to introduce underground cisterns to harvest runoff water from roadways and other suitable surfaces in the end remote area of Sekororo in the Limpopo Province of South Africa. Research highlights A substantial number of households are having access to [...]
Project title: Water rights in informal economies in the Limpopo and Volta Basins (PN66) Introduction Driven by the new global discourse in the 1990s on Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) in general and market-driven water allocation in particular, new water legislation and related institutional innovation strengthened the legal device of [...]
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