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1 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.
2 Cornwall, A.; Edwards, J. (Eds.) 2014. Feminisms, empowerment and development: changing women's lives. London, UK: Zed Books. 332p. (Feminisms and Development)
Gender mainstreaming ; Empowerment ; Women in development ; Social change ; Women's organizations ; Girls education ; Development programmes ; State intervention ; Bureaucracy ; Political aspects ; Conflict ; Legal aspects ; Female labour ; Financing ; Households ; Landlessness ; Cultural factors ; Music ; Television ; Religion ; Rural areas ; Case studies / Egypt / Ghana / Pakistan / Bangladesh / Sierra Leone / Brazil / Palestine / Bahia
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 305.42 G000 COR Record No: H047661)
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3 Employers' Federation of Ceylon (EFC); Jayasinghe, C. (Ed.) 2016. Employment in terms of the Shop and Office Employees’ Act. 2nd ed. Rajagiriya, Sri Lanka: Employers' Federation of Ceylon (EFC). 61p. (Employers' Federation of Ceylon Monograph 17)
Legal aspects ; Labour legislation ; Regulations ; Shops ; Office ; Working conditions ; Labour contracts ; Working hours ; Remuneration ; Female labour ; Maternity ; Holidays ; Health protection ; Safety at work ; Human resources management ; Record keeping ; Delinquent behaviour / Sri Lanka
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 344.01 G744 EMP Record No: H047706)
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4 Buisson, Marie-Charlotte; MacDonald, K.; Saikia, Panchali; Balasubramanya, Soumya; Aslamy, Sohrob; Horbulyk, Theodore. 2016. Impact of water users associations on water and land productivity, equity and food security in Tajikistan. Mid-term Technical Report. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). 102p.
Water user associations ; Water productivity ; Water governance ; Water management ; Water availability ; Water supply ; Water rates ; Land productivity ; Equity ; Food security ; Household food security ; Role of women ; Women's participation ; Female labour ; Farmers ; Irrigation water ; Irrigation management ; Small scale farming ; Agriculture ; Cultivated land ; Private farm ; Field preparation ; Decision making ; Community organizations ; Crops ; Labour / Tajikistan
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H047854)
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5 Kholmatova, N. 2021. The precarity of transnational migration and the COVID-19 pandemic: addressing female return migration in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. [Policy Brief of the Migration Governance and Agricultural and Rural Change (AGRUMIG) Project]. London, UK: SOAS University of London. 8p. (AGRUMIG Policy Brief Series 3)
Migration ; COVID-19 ; Pandemics ; Female labour ; Women ; Households ; Rural communities ; Governance ; Policies ; Social protection ; Uncertainty / Kyrgyzstan / Tajikistan
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H052221)
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