Water reform in Sub-Saharan Africa: what is the difference?

Koppen, Barbara C.M. van

doi:10.1016/j.pce.2003.08.022

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“…In the study area, the demand-driven approach seems to be effective in terms of building new infrastructure and hence extending access to safe water, thus maybe contradicting Van Koppen's (2003) argument that water scarcity in Africa results from lack of private and public economic resources and incentives to develop water resources. We rather see the challenge with long-term collective action needed to operate and maintain the infrastructure, as indicated by half of the water sources being non-functional.…”

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Challenging pathways to safe water access in rural Uganda: From supply to demand-driven water governance

2015

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Uganda has experienced a major policy shift from a supply-driven to a demand-driven approach in rural water provision since 1990. The article sheds light on the rural population's access to safe water within the changing institutional frameworks. We analysed individual and group interviews with key informants from national to community levels and relevant official documents with the 'SocialEcological Systems' framework and the 'design principles'. Since the implementation of the demand-driven approach, rural safe water coverage has slightly improved but operation and maintenance of water sources pose a great challenge hampering, longterm access to safe water. The abrupt and top-down imposed policy shift has resulted in competing signals from old and new policies creating uncertainty and ambiguity about responsibilities, rules and incentives. The analysis shows the importance of taking into account the implications of national institutional disturbances on local collective action for long-term access to safe water.

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Challenging pathways to safe water access in rural Uganda: From supply to demand-driven water governance

2015

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“…Most obviously, several governments have recently reinstated or revitalized agricultural input subsidy schemes aimed at promoting access to chemical fertilizers and improved seeds (Minot and Benson, 2009), with variable success (Jayne and Rashid, 2013). Irrigation and mechanization technologies have received far less policy attention, potentially translating into stagnation or even the reversal of prior progress in expanding their use (Mrema et al, 2008, Van Koppen, 2003). Meanwhile, factors external to agricultural policy—such as record high international food prices, urbanization, rapid growth of a middle class, increased access to market and other information through cell phones, and transformation of some food marketing channels—may have changed on-farm incentives and resulted in updates to farm management practices, including modern input use (e.g., Reardon et al, 2009, Tiffen, 2003).…”

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Ten striking facts about agricultural input use in Sub-Saharan Africa

Sheahan¹,

2017

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Conventional wisdom holds that Sub-Saharan African farmers use few modern inputs despite the fact that most poverty-reducing agricultural growth in the region is expected to come largely from expanded use of inputs that embody improved technologies, particularly improved seed, fertilizers and other agro-chemicals, machinery, and irrigation. Yet following several years of high food prices, concerted policy efforts to intensify fertilizer and hybrid seed use, and increased public and private investment in agriculture, how low is modern input use in Africa really? This article revisits Africa’s agricultural input landscape, exploiting the unique, recently collected, nationally representative, agriculturally intensive, and cross-country comparable Living Standard Measurement Study-Integrated Surveys on Agriculture (LSMS-ISA) covering six countries in the region (Ethiopia, Malawi, Niger, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Uganda). Using data from over 22,000 households and 62,000 agricultural plots, we offer ten potentially surprising facts about modern input use in Africa today.

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“…The majority of studies are concentrated in arid and semi‐arid regions due to water scarcity in these areas. However, many regions of apparent high rainfall also experience water scarcity during the dry season (Rijsberman ) and when sub‐Saharan Africa's variable climate unpredictably delivers low‐wet season rains (Van Koppen ; Bonsor et al ).…”

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Insights From a Multi‐Method Recharge Estimation Comparison Study

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Although most recharge estimation studies apply multiple methods to identify the possible range in recharge values, many do not distinguish clearly enough between inherent uncertainty of the methods and other factors affecting the results. We investigated the additional value that can be gained from multi-method recharge studies through insights into hydrogeological understanding, in addition to characterizing uncertainty. Nine separate groundwater recharge estimation methods, with a total of 17 variations, were applied at a shallow aquifer in northwest Ethiopia in the context of the potential for shallow groundwater resource development. These gave a wide range of recharge values from 45 to 814 mm/a. Critical assessment indicated that the results depended on what the recharge represents (actual, potential, minimum recharge or change in aquifer storage), and spatial and temporal scales, as well as uncertainties from application of each method. Important insights into the hydrogeological system were gained from this detailed analysis, which also confirmed that the range of values for actual recharge was reduced to around 280-430 mm/a. This study demonstrates that even when assumptions behind methods are violated, as they often are to some degree especially when data are limited, valuable insights into the hydrogeological system can be gained from application of multiple methods.

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Water reform in Sub-Saharan Africa: what is the difference?

Cited by 63 publications

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Challenging pathways to safe water access in rural Uganda: From supply to demand-driven water governance

Challenging pathways to safe water access in rural Uganda: From supply to demand-driven water governance

Ten striking facts about agricultural input use in Sub-Saharan Africa

Insights From a Multi‐Method Recharge Estimation Comparison Study

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