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1 Derman, B.; Hellum, A.; Sithole, P.. 2005. Intersections of human rights and customs: A livelihood perspective on water laws. In van Koppen, Barbara; Butterworth, J.; Juma, I. (Eds.). African Water Laws: Plural Legislative Frameworks for Rural Water Management in Africa: An International Workshop, Johannesburg, South Africa, 26-28 January 2005. pp.6-1/6-15.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: IWMI 333.91 G100 VAN Record No: H038744)
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2 Derman, B.; Hellum, A.; Manzungu, E.; Sithole, P.; Machiridza, R. 2007. Intersections of law, human rights and water management in Zimbabwe: implications for rural livelihoods. In van Koppen, Barbara; Giordano, Mark; Butterworth, J. (Eds.). Community-based water law and water resource management reform in developing countries. Wallingford, UK: CABI. pp.248-269. (Comprehensive Assessment of Water Management in Agriculture Series 5)
Water management ; Human rights ; Water rights ; Gender ; Water law ; Legislation ; Irrigation water ; Drinking water / Zimbabwe
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI 346.04691 G000 VAN Record No: H040698)
3 Sithole, P.; van Koppen, Barbara. 2008. Understanding water property rights creation, re-creation and de-creation: a case study of Lorraine and Fumukwe Villages, Limpopo Basin. In Humphreys, E.; Bayot, R. S.; van Brakel, M.; Gichuki, F.; Svendsen, M.; Wester, P.; Huber-Lee, A.; Cook, S. Douthwaite, B.; Hoanh, Chu Thai; Johnson, N.; Nguyen-Khoa, Sophie; Vidal, A.; MacIntyre, I.; MacIntyre, R. (Eds.). Fighting poverty through sustainable water use: proceedings of the CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food, 2nd International Forum on Water and Food, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 10-14 November 2008. Vol.3. Water benefits sharing for poverty alleviation and conflict management; Drivers and processes of change. Colombo, Sri Lanka: CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food. pp.174-176.
River basins ; Water rights ; Canals ; Wells ; Labor ; Maintenance ; Investment ; Villages ; Households / South Africa / Zimbabwe / Limpopo River Basin / Fumukwe village / Lorraine village
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI 333.91 G000 HUM Record No: H041861)
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4 Mapedza, Everisto; van Koppen, Barbara; Sithole, P.; Bourblanc, M. 2016. Joint venture schemes in Limpopo Province and their outcomes on smallholder farmers livelihoods. Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, 92:92-98. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pce.2015.10.016]
Smallholders ; Living standards ; Irrigation schemes ; Sprinkler irrigation ; Gender ; Male labour ; Female labour ; Land resources ; Water resources ; Water use ; Multiple use ; Sustainability / South Africa / Limpopo Province
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H047393)
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Joint Venture schemes based on the floppy irrigation technology are being promoted in the post-Apartheid South Africa's Limpopo Province. Access to land and water resources in South Africa are largely viewed as a mechanism for re-dressing the Apartheid injustices. This research was part of a broader applied research to help inform irrigation practise in the Limpopo Province. The research used literature review, key informant interviews and a questionnaire survey. The overall research question sought to understand how the Joint Venture Schemes had benefited the smallholder farmers. This paper argues that the joint venture partnership created a new injustice. Firstly, the Joint Venture Scheme design is fundamentally a bad idea which disempower farmers not only to water access but also land as well. The choice of the ‘efficient’ floppy irrigation technology was made by the state and entailed that land had to be managed as a single unit. In order to make more effective use of this highly sophisticated new technology, the smallholder farmers also needed to go into a joint venture partnership with a white commercial farmer. By virtue of signing the Joint Venture agreement the farmers were also forfeiting their land and water rights to be used for crop production. The smallholder farmers lost access to their water and land resources and were largely relegated to sharing profits – when they exist - with hardly any skills development despite what was initially envisaged in the Joint Venture partnership. Secondly, the implementation of the JVS has been skewed from the start which explains the bad results. This paper further shows how the negative outcomes affected women in particular. As the smallholder farmers argue the technological options chosen by the state have excluded both male and female farmers from accessing and utilising their land and water resources in order to improve their livelihoods; it has entrenched the role of the state and the private interests at the expense of the smallholder male and female farmers in whose name the irrigation funding was justified. The paper concludes by offering recommendations on how joint venture schemes can be genuinely participatory and meaningfully address the rural livelihoods.
5 van Koppen, Barbara; Schreiner, B.; Sithole, P.. 2019. Decolonising peasants’ marginalisation in African water law. Journal of Water Law, 26:51-61.
Water law ; Peasant workers ; Smallholders ; Water rights ; Customary law ; Colonialism ; Water resources ; Regulations ; Legislation ; Licences ; Water authorities ; Land tenure ; Water users ; Marginalization / Africa South of Sahara / South Africa / Kenya / Malawi / Uganda / Zimbabwe
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H049188)
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