Addressing Africa’s real agricultural issues. Among the issues exercising the minds of those concerned with the future welfare of the African continent and its people is the issue of farm size. Many debate if land should be in the hands of larger scale commercial farmers or a multitude of smallholders. [...]
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 [...]
From 24th July through 2nd August, Karen Greenough made a long tour through southern Burkina and northern Ghana as part of her ethnographic research on innovations resulting from VBDC activities. She started on Tuesday with Fred Kizito and Lee Davelaar, who were gathering information for the Volta Scenarios and Storylines [...]
Enhancing uptake and socio-economic benefits of shallow groundwater irrigation in the White Volta Basin Project Data Lead Organization: International Water Management Institute (IWMI) Project Leader: Dr. Regassa Namara Partners: International Development Enterprise (IDE) and University for Development Studies (UDS), Tamale. Duration: 1.Jan.2012 – 30.Apr.2014 (28 months) Geographic area: Volta Basin, [...]
Project title: Improving catchment and use efficiency of water for high-value dry season crops (SG506) Introduction In the driest regions of Ghana, the traditional system of excavating the farmlands to access water for post-rainy season farming leads to farmland degradation, inadequate water to meet cropping requirements, reduced farm sizes and [...]
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 [...]
Project title: Shallow groundwater irrigation in the White Volta Basin (PN65) Introduction Over the past years, recurrent droughts/spells or frequent floods have led to food insecurity and increasing poverty in the White Volta Basin (WVB) where formal irrigation benefits only a limited number of farmers. Hundreds of rain-fed smallholder farmers [...]
Project title: Basin Focal Project Volta (PN55) Introduction Inhabited by 19 million people of whom 70% are rural, the Volta River Basin crosses four agro-ecological zones and covers mostly Ghana and Burkina Faso, with small areas in Benin, Côte d’Ivoire, Mali and Togo. The basin economies are reliant on rain [...]
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Project Highlights The African Models of Transboundary Water Governance project brought together a diverse group of researchers, implementers, students and communities to help discover how local level natural resource management strategies could be scaled up to the transnational level. This approach or methodology was a clear example of ‘outside the [...]
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