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1 Chilonda, Pius; Minde, I. 2007. Agriculture growth trends in southern Africa. Pretoria, South Africa: Regional Strategic Analysis and Knowledge Support System for Southern Africa (ReSAKSS-SA); International Water Management Institute (IWMI); International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT). 1. 4p. (ReSAKSS-SA Policy Brief 001)
Agricultural development ; Agricultural production ; Labour productivity ; Investment / Southern Africa
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H041604)
http://www.resakss.org/publications/PolicyBrief_May2007.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H041604.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H041604.pdf
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2 Baum, E.; Gyiele, L. A.; Drechsel, P.; Nurah, G. K. 1999. Tools for the economic analysis and evaluation of on-farm trials. [Training/Course material] Bangkok, Thailand: International Board for Soil Research and Management (IBSRAM). 58p. (IBSRAM Global Tool Kit Series 1)
Economic analysis ; Economic indicators ; On-farm research ; Cash flow ; Budgeting ; Benefit-cost ratio ; Production factors ; Land use ; Land management ; Soil conservation ; Labour productivity ; Farmers ; Crop yield ; Maize ; Fertilizers
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H046252)
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3 Punch, S.; Sugden, Fraser. 2013. Work, education and out-migration among children and youth in upland Asia: changing patterns of labour and ecological knowledge in an era of globalisation. Local Environment: The International Journal of Justice and Sustainability, Special Issue. 18(3):255-270. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2012.716410]
Globalization ; Children ; Youth ; Households ; Labour productivity ; Women ; Economic aspects ; Education ; Ecology ; Agriculture ; Living standards / Asia / India / Vietnam / China / Da Krong / Buxa / Shaoguan
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H046674)
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In the context of ecological and economic change, this paper identifies the impact of ongoing transformations in young people's labour contribution in four natural resource-dependent regions in India, Vietnam and China. Children's work is important to maximise household labour productivity, while also endowing them with the ecological knowledge necessary to sustain key productive livelihood activities. However, today, an increased emphasis on education and the out-migration of youth is reducing their labour contribution, particularly in the more economically developed case study communities in Northern Vietnam and China. While selective in its extent, these changes have increased the labour burden of older household members and women, while the economic opportunities young people aspire to following schooling or migration frequently prove elusive in a competitive liberalised economy. Another implication of young people diverting their labour and learning away from traditional natural resource-based livelihood activities is the loss of valuable ecological knowledge.
4 Matchaya, Greenwell; Nhlengethwa, Sibusiso; Chilonda, Pius. 2014. Agricultural sector performance in Malawi. Regional and Sectoral Economic Studies, 14(2):141-156.
Agricultural sector ; Performance indexes ; Poverty ; Income ; Investment ; Cereal products ; Livestock products ; Malnutrition ; Land productivity ; Labour productivity / Malawi
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H046733)
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This paper charts the performance of the agriculture sector in Malawi for the period 2000 – 2013 (with particular attention paid to the last three to four years of the said period). In the quest to attain this aim the paper empirically focuses on the significance of mapping the performance of the sector in the form of trends against the baseline sectoral performance targets enlisted in the ASWAP, CAADP Framework and SADC RISDP. The consistent and concerted efforts by the Government of Malawi and development partners to meet the ASWAP, CAADP framework and SADC RISDP targets have resulted in the country making commendable economic growth and poverty alleviation. The country has been able to attain the 6% agricultural growth target despite the questionable quality of public expenditure. It is also interesting to note that changes in the agriculture sector appear to have had influence on incomes, poverty and malnourishment. The trend analysis led to the following findings; the growth in agricultural GDP and the annual GDP growth of the country surpassed the CAADP target of 6% annual growth and this culminated to an increase in production (cereal and livestock production) and productivity (land productivity) despite the fact that the country has not met the irrigation and fertiliser used targets. This increase in production and productivity may be earnestly attributed substantially public invested in the agriculture sector to meet the CAADP 10% target of the total budget to agriculture. However, this increase in agricultural GDP annual growth has not had a significant bearing on the country’s battle to offset poverty; the country’s GHI is still serious and the proportion of the population below the minimum dietary energy consumption is still high (23% on average) whilst the MDG I target stands at 20%. The major deduction from these findings is that there is a need for more concerted efforts in Malawi to refine agricultural growth investments; this can be carried out efficiently by developing a National Agriculture Plan (NAP) which will be a single policy tool that will guide investment and implementation of priorities in the sector.
5 Chilonda, Pius; Matchaya, Greenwell; Chiwaula, L.; Kambewa, P.; Musaba, Emmanuel; Manyamba, C. 2013. Agricultural growth trends and outlook for southern Africa: enhancing regional food security through increased agricultural productivity. Washington, DC, USA: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI); Pretoria, South Africa: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). 72p. (ReSAKSS-SA Annual Trends and Outlook Report 2011)
Agricultural development ; Agricultural production ; Cereals ; Fertilizer application ; Productivity ; Food security ; Hunger ; Poverty ; Indicators ; Labour productivity ; Land productivity ; Livestock production ; Investment ; Income ; Economic aspects / Southern Africa / SADC countries
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI Record No: H046770)
http://www.resakss.org/sites/default/files/pdfs/ReSAKSS_SA_ATOR_2011.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H046770.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H046770.pdf
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6 Matchaya, Greenwell; Chilonda, Pius; Nhlengethwa, Sibusiso. 2013. Agricultural growth trends and outlook for southern Africa: inter-temporal trends and patterns in agricultural investment spending in southern Africa. Washington, DC, USA: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI); Pretoria, South Africa: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). 100p. (ReSAKSS-SA Annual Trends and Outlook Report 2012)
Agricultural development ; Productivity ; Public investment ; Public expenditure ; Private sector ; Irrigation ; Economic growth ; Trade ; Labour productivity ; Income ; Poverty ; Economic indicators / Southern Africa / SADC countries
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI Record No: H046771)
http://www.resakss.org/sites/default/files/pdfs/ReSAKSS-SA%20Annual%20Trends%20and%20Outlook%20Report%202012.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H046771.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H046771.pdf
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7 Quisumbing, A. R.; Meinzen-Dick, R.; Raney, T. L.; Croppenstedt, A.; Behrman, J. A.; Peterman, A. (Eds.) 2014. Gender in agriculture: closing the knowledge gap. Rome, Italy: FAO; Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer. 444p. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-8616-4]
Agricultural development ; Agricultural production ; Agricultural research ; Gender analysis ; Women's participation ; Rural women ; Equity ; Assets ; Livestock ; Marketing ; Labour productivity ; Land access ; Rural development ; Financing ; Households ; Nutrition ; Public health ; Living standards ; Social aspects ; Developing countries ; Case studies
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 630.92 G000 QUI Record No: H046792)
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8 Matchaya, Greenwell Collins; Phiri, A.; Chilonda, Pius; Musaba, Emmanuel. 2014. Agricultural Growth Trends and Outlook Report: trends in agricultural sector performance, growth and poverty in Malawi. Washington, DC, USA: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI); Pretoria, South Africa: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). 70p. (ReSAKSS-SA Annual Trends and Outlook Report 2012)
Agricultural development ; Agricultural policy ; Agricultural budgets ; Agricultural trade ; Economic indicators ; Performance indexes ; Public investment ; Expenditure ; Exports ; Imports ; Food security ; Poverty ; Hunger ; Nutrition ; Public health ; Households ; Population structure ; Labour productivity ; Land productivity ; Farmers ; Livestock ; Fisheries / Malawi
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI Record No: H046781)
http://www.resakss.org/sites/default/files/pdfs/resakss_malawi_ator.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H046781.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H046781.pdf
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9 Janmaat, J.; Lapp, S.; Wannop, T.; Bharati, Luna; Sugden, Fraser. 2015. Demonstrating complexity with a roleplaying simulation: investing in water in the Indrawati Subbasin, Nepal. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). 38p. (IWMI Research Report 163) [doi: https://doi.org/10.5337/2015.212]
Water storage ; Calibration ; River basins ; Watershed management ; Drinking water ; Households ; Economic aspects ; Income ; Budgets ; Investment ; Crop production ; Climate change ; Precipitation ; Labour productivity ; Social structure ; Rural communities ; Policy making ; Capacity building ; Education ; Sustainability / Nepal / Indrawati Subbasin
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI Record No: H047183)
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Rural people in Nepal and other developing nations are part of complex, social-ecological systems. Efforts to provide assistance to these people must integrate knowledge from a variety of perspectives. This report documents the use of a role-playing game, supported by an agent-based model, to demonstrate the interaction between migration, social capital and the effectiveness of water storage. The importance of these interactions was highlighted by fieldwork conducted at several sites in the Koshi River Basin. The model underlying the game was a stylized representation based on the Indrawati Subbasin northeast of Kathmandu, Nepal. The report highlights that (a) role-playing tournaments can be an effective way to engage technical and policy experts with the complex interactions between the social and physical dimensions of watershed management; and (b) migration and the economic changes which drive these interactions are forces that need to be accepted, and investments in water storage need to be selected depending on how they fit into these trends.
10 Tembo, S.; Matchaya, Greenwell; Nhemachena, Charles; Nhelengethwa, Sibusiso. 2015. Advancing mutual accountability through comprehensive, inclusive, and technically robust review and dialogue and establishing partnerships and mechanisms for joint sector planning, monitoring and evaluation: joint sector review, agriculture. Zambia. Lusaka , Zambia: Ministry of Agriculture. 86p.
Agricultural development ; Agroindustry ; Agricultural financial policy ; Investment ; Planning ; Monitoring ; Evaluation ; Trade policies ; Market access ; Land management ; Water management ; Stakeholders ; Government agencies ; Budgets ; Crop production ; Labour productivity ; Livestock production ; Fisheries / Zambia
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H047485)
(1.06 MB)
11 Benin, S. (Ed.) 2016. Agricultural productivity in Africa: trends, patterns, and determinants. Washington, DC, USA: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). 359p. [doi: https://doi.org/10.2499/9780896298811]
Agricultural production ; Land productivity ; Agricultural development ; Growth rate ; Trends ; Development policies ; Farming systems ; Crop production ; Intensification ; Labour productivity ; Fertilizer application ; Technological changes ; Farmland ; Typology ; Spatial variation ; Development projects ; Performance evaluation ; Sustainability ; Farmers ; Population density ; Market access ; Forests ; Case studies / Africa
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 338.16 G100 BEN Record No: H047988)
http://www.ifpri.org/cdmref/p15738coll2/id/130468/filename/130679.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H047988.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H047988.pdf
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12 Lele, U. 2018. Doubling farmers’ income under climate change. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). 12p. (IWMI-Tata Water Policy Program Discussion Paper 2) [doi: https://doi.org/10.5337/2019.002]
Farm income ; Climate change ; Policies ; Climate-smart agriculture ; Agricultural productivity ; Livestock ; Farmers ; Labour productivity ; Market prices ; Investment ; Households ; Rural areas / India
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H049193)
(1.96 MB)
13 Hussein, M. A.; Riga, F. T.; Derseh, M. B.; Assefa, T. T.; Worqlul, A. W.; Haileslassie, Amare; Adie, A.; Jones, C. S.; Tilahun, Seifu A. 2024. Application of irrigation management and water-lifting technologies to enhance fodder productivity in smallholder farming communities: a case study in Robit Bata, Ethiopia. Agronomy, 14(5):1064. [doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy14051064]
Irrigation management ; Water productivity ; Irrigation technology ; Smallholders ; Farmers ; Irrigation water ; Fodder ; Pennisetum purpureum ; Watersheds ; Labour productivity ; Dry matter ; Soil water content ; Livestock ; Case studies / Ethiopia / Robit Bata / Yinebo Watershed / Robit Watershed
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H052854)
https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4395/14/5/1064/pdf?version=1715935300
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H052854.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H052854.pdf
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Small-scale cultivation of irrigated fodder is emerging as a vital production system in mixed farming communities. Efficient water management plays a key role in enhancing forage production, especially in the face of changing climate. A field-scale experimental study was conducted in Robit Bata kebele, Ethiopia, with the following objectives: (1) to examine the effects of conventional farmers’ irrigation scheduling versus climate-based irrigation scheduling; and (2) to assess the influence of water-lifting technologies (manual pulley and solar Majipump) on dry matter yield (DMY), water productivity (WP), irrigation labor productivity (ILP), and water productivity in terms of crude protein and metabolizable energy (WP.CP and WP.ME) of Napier grass. The experiment used 10 farmers’ plots each with a size of 100 m2 . Half of the plots were treated using farmers’ scheduling while the other half were treated using climate-based irrigation scheduling. Monitoring of irrigation water use and crop yield took place over two irrigation seasons from November 2020 to June 2021. Results showed there was an interaction effect of irrigation management (p = 0.019) and water-lifting technologies (p = 0.016) with season on DMY. The highest DMY occurred in the first irrigation season with climate-based scheduling and solar Majipump use. The interaction effect of irrigation management and season affected WP (p = 0.047). Climate-based scheduling had a higher WP in the first season, while farmers’ scheduling had a higher WP during the second season. On average, the solar Majipump outperformed the pulley, achieving 5 kg m-3 WP compared to the pulley’s 4 kg m-3 (p = 0.018). Emphasizing the seasonal impact, it is recommended to promote full irrigation (climate-based) in the first season for maximum yield and WP. Conversely, in the second season, advocating only deficit irrigation is advised due to water scarcity and sustainability concerns. Statistical parity in DMY and lower WP with full irrigation in the second season supports this recommendation, addressing the challenge of optimizing water use in the context of a changing climate and ensuring sustainable smallholder agriculture practices. Therefore, implementing appropriate irrigation management alongside efficient water-lifting technologies holds the potential to enhance fodder productivity and bolster smallholder farmers’ livelihoods. Future research should explore the comparative benefits of irrigated fodder versus other crops and the overall advantages of investing in irrigated fodder over vegetables.
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