Water-smart agriculture in East Africa

Nicol, Alan; Langan, Simon; Victor, Michael; Gonsalvez, J.

doi:10.5337/2015.203

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“…By contrast, a study undertaken in Zambia and Ghana indicated that women's and men's adoption of watersmart technology was approximately the same and that female household members retained the economic benefits of adopting new production technology more than two-thirds of the time. The findings showed that favorable social norms and relatively greater equity in land tenure security contributed to the fairly high adoption rates of women (Nicol et al 2015). These factors have also been shown to be important causes of high rates of technology adoption by women in southern Africa, particularly Zambia (van Koppen et al 2015).…”

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confidence: 99%

Gender-equitable pathways to achieving sustainable agricultural intensification

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2018

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The team acknowledges the contributions and efforts of Douglas Merrey (independent consultant); Nicoline de Haan (currently gender lead at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and previously gender coordinator at WLE); Fraser Sugden (currently senior lecturer at University of Birmingham and previously gender coordinator at WLE); Nicole Lefore (senior project manager, IWMI); Meredith Giordano (principal researcher, IWMI); and Alexandra Evans (independent consultant) in preparing the content for this brief. We would also like to acknowledge the support of Liza Debevec (interim gender, youth and inclusivity coordinator at WLE) and other WLE scientists in the review of the brief.

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Section: Access To Services and Technologymentioning

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Gender-equitable pathways to achieving sustainable agricultural intensification

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2018

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“…Other studies that looked into barriers to input use (Jama and Pizarro 2008;Kelsey 2013;Nicol et al 2015) showed that barriers to adoption are on both the supply-side (the price, availability, or lack of information about the inputs), and on the demand-side (farmers that do not buy inputs because of lack of credit, labour, sufficient land, or knowledge of technologies, among other possibilities).…”

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Analysing the potential of plant clinics to boost crop protection in Rwanda through adoption of IPM: the case of maize and maize stem borers

2019

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Maize plays an important role in the livelihoods of rural communities in Rwanda. However, maize yields are threatened by the presence of pests and diseases and a general lack of knowledge and information for their management. In this study we sought to assess if plant clinics are making farmers more aware and knowledgeable of pests and diseases and are indirectly contributing to higher yields. We interviewed 644 farmers across Rwanda, both users and non-users of plant clinics. Propensity score matching was used to match the users and non-users of plant clinics and logistic regression was used to assess a number of factors, including interactions with plant clinics, that affect farmers' adoption of pest management practices. Our analysis shows that users of plant clinics are more aware and knowledgeable in recognizing and handling maize stem borers. Furthermore, users of plant clinics have on average higher yields than non-users and this difference is highly significant (P < 0.001). The analysis therefore demonstrates that plant clinics are beneficial to farmers in Rwanda. However, efforts are required to diversify the spectrum of practices that are promoted by plant clinics and by extension and advisory services in Rwanda.

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“…One of the villages located in the study area called Abraha Atsibaha was evidenced as winner of the 2012 UNDP Equator Prize at Rio de Janeiro in recognition of outstanding success to restoration of degraded landscape through SWC practices (Kahsai 2015). The soil and water conservation practices implemented in the study area have thus resulted in a better restoration of the natural environment.…”

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Effects of soil and water conservation on vegetation cover: a remote sensing based study in the Middle Suluh River Basin, northern Ethiopia

2017

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Background: Soil and water conservation (SWC) has been implemented in the Tigray Region of Ethiopia since 1985. Besides this, the agricultural development strategy of the region which was derived from the national agricultural development led industrialization strategy formulated in 1993 was focused on natural resources rehabilitation and conservations. Accordingly, each year a 20-days free labor work on SWC activities were contributed by the rural communities. Other programmes such as productive safety net programmes, and sustainable land management project were deploying their resources aiming to reverse the degraded landscape in the region. Method:Multi-temporal remote sensing data of landsat imageries were used for estimating the normalized difference vegetation index, soil adjusted vegetation index (SAVI) and land surface temperature (LST) for the years 1985, 2000 and 2015. Long-term station based data on daily precipitation started from 1973 was aggregated to derive average annual precipitation (AAP) into three sections to correspond with the processed image data. The precipitation data then converted into raster format using the inverse distance weight interpolation method. The analysis was done using ENVI 5.3 software and results were mapped in ArcGIS 10.3 package. The correlation between AAP and SAVI; LST and SAVI was evaluated on village polygon based as well as pixel-by-pixel. Results:The results based on village polygons show that there is statistical significant inverse relationship between SAVI and LST in all the study periods. The correlations between AAP and SAVI pixel-by-pixel were r = − 0.14 in 2015 and r = 0.06, r = 0.25 for 2000 and 1985 respectively. In 1985, the total area with SAVI ≥ 0.2 was 23.57 km2. After 15 years (from 1985 to 2000), the total area with SAVI ≥ 0.2 increased to 64.94 km2. In 2015, the total area of SAVI with values ≥ 0.2 reached 67.11 km2, which is a 3.3% increment from year 2000. Conclusion:Based on the field observation and the remote sensing analysis results, noticeable gain in vegetation cover improvement have been observed in the 30 years period. These improvements are attributable to the implementation of integrated SWC measures particularly in areas where exclosure areas were defined and protected by the local community. Therefore, this study concludes by providing a theoretical bases and an indicator data support for further research on vegetation restoration for the entire region.

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Water-smart agriculture in East Africa

Cited by 30 publications

References 59 publications

Gender-equitable pathways to achieving sustainable agricultural intensification

Gender-equitable pathways to achieving sustainable agricultural intensification

Analysing the potential of plant clinics to boost crop protection in Rwanda through adoption of IPM: the case of maize and maize stem borers

Effects of soil and water conservation on vegetation cover: a remote sensing based study in the Middle Suluh River Basin, northern Ethiopia

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