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1 Sutcliffe, J. V.; Parks, Y. P. 1999. The hydrology of the Nile. Wallingford, UK: International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS). xi, 179p. (IAHS special publication 5)
Rivers ; Hydrology ; Networks ; Rain ; Runoff ; Flow measurement ; Water balance ; Swamps ; Flood plains ; Models ; Canals ; Wetlands ; Evaporation ; Forecasting ; Sedimentation ; Water use / Egypt / Africa / Nile River / White Nile / Blue Nile / Lake Victoria / Kagera Basin / Lake Kyoga / Lake Albert / Bahr El Jebel / Jonglei Canal / Bahr El Ghazal / Sobat Basin / Machar Marshes / Pibor River / Baro River / Atbara Basin / Wadi Halfa / Aswan / Roda Island / Rwanda / Burundi / Congo / Guanda / Kenya / Tanzania / Ethiopia / Eritrea / Sudan
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 551.483 G232 SUT Record No: H024430)
2 Cofie, Olufunke O.; Drechsel, Pay; Agbottah, S.; van Veenhuizen, R. 2008. Resource recovery from urban waste: options and challenges for community based composting in Sub-Saharan Africa. In Richards, B. S.; Schafer, A. I. (Eds). Proceedings of the International Conference on Water and Sanitation in International Development and Disaster Relief (WSIDDR), Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, 28-30 May, 2008. Edinburgh, UK: University of Edinburgh. pp.290-296.
Sanitation ; Public health ; Sewage sludge ; Solid wastes ; Composting ; Waste management / Africa / Africa South of Sahara / Ghana / Ghana / Kenya / Ethiopia
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI 631.875 G110 COF Record No: H041517)
Municipal authorities in developing countries are facing immense challenges in managing both solid and liquid waste in a sustainable way. Recycling is not yet high on their agenda although they appreciate the potential of composting for waste volume reduction. This offers an entry point to introduce organic waste recycling as a component of sustainable integrated sanitation which has the potential of a win-win situation by reducing waste flows, ensuring environmental health, supporting food production and creating livelihoods. However, due to several constraints recycling attempts have often a short life time. This paper tries to analyse related reasons by drawing from a larger feasibility study in Ghana and a survey of compost stations in different parts of Africa. It concludes with a framework for the analysis and the planning of recycling interventions in the context of sustainable sanitation, looking in particular at community based options for solid waste and human excreta.
3 Warinda, E.; Nyariki, D. M.; Wambua, S.; Muasya, R. M.; Hanjra, M. A. 2020. Sustainable development in East Africa: impact evaluation of regional agricultural development projects in Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda. Natural Resources Forum, 44(1):3-39. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/1477-8947.12191]
Sustainable development ; Agricultural development ; Development projects ; Water management ; Land management ; Commodities ; Agricultural productivity ; Milk production ; Livestock ; Food security ; Farm income ; Innovation platforms ; Capacity building ; Households ; Gender ; Women ; Smallholders ; Farmers ; Policies ; Economic aspects / East Africa / Burundi / Kenya / Rwanda / United Republic of Tanzania / Uganda
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H049848)
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1477-8947.12191
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Investments in agricultural technologies, capacity building and policy harmonization are needed to support sustainable development across Africa. Regional development projects can facilitate the adoption of agricultural technologies and innovations across nation-state borders and generate benefits for shared prosperity. This paper uses panel data from 1,160 smallholder households including beneficiaries and non-beneficiaries from five countries in East Africa - Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda. From a pool of over 90 projects implemented over a span of 15 years, 23 regional projects are included in this study. The major economic benefits to smallholder participants are higher crop productivity and income, access to adaptable technologies, access to markets, higher livestock and milk production, gender equality, enhanced food security, resilience and capacity building for uptake and scaling up of future innovation platforms. For example, the adoption of low-cost tissue culture banana by the beneficiaries increased their incomes by 15% in Rwanda while the adoption of appropriate land and water management technologies increased the potato yields from 2.8 tons (USD 2,840/ha) to over 7.5 tons (USD 7,410/ha) in Kenya. The beneficiaries ensured value added to commodities like bananas (for export) and orange-fleshed sweet potatoes (a nutrition-sensitive intervention for enhancing domestic intake of vitamin A) in Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda. Additionally, milk production increased from 6 to 11 L per cow per day in Uganda and from 6 to 8 L per cow per day in Tanzania, with increases in sales generating USD 115 per cow per month above the non-beneficiaries. These results are supported by previous studies on technology adoption, investments in agriculture and well-being outcomes. Our findings with the higher farm income Difference-in-Differences (DiD) estimator for the female beneficiaries compared to male beneficiaries might have important implications for investing in regional development projects that will close the gender gap in agricultural productivity in Africa. Regional projects can also support post-conflict development efforts for food security and peace in fragile contexts such as in Burundi. Our findings might serve as an input to the African Union's Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme, localization of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals related to food security and agriculture in Africa and an input to monitoring, evaluation and learning.
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