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1 Sinore, T.; Kissi, E.; Aticho, A. 2018. The effects of biological soil conservation practices and community perception toward these practices in the Lemo district of southern Ethiopia. International Soil and Water Conservation Research, 6(2):123-130. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.iswcr.2018.01.004]
Soil conservation ; Biological activity in soil ; Erosion ; Water conservation ; Soil analysis ; Soil chemicophysical properties ; Communities ; Farmers attitudes ; Regression analysis ; Sesbania ; Pennisetum purpureum / Ethiopia / Lemo
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H048777)
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Land degradation is the critical ecological and agricultural challenges in Ethiopia. To combat this, the government and local farmers’ have undertaken soil and water conservation measures (physical, biological and integrated) across the country since 1970's. This study investigate effect of elephant grass (P. purpureum) and sesbania sesban (S. sesban) used as biological land rehabilitation practices on soil properties and farmers’ perception on the practices. Composite soil samples (0–30 cm) were randomly collected from lands treated with sesbania, elephant grass, and adjacent degraded grazing land, and a structured questionnaire was used to assess farmers’ perceptions. Statistical results showed that elephant grass and sesbania were significantly (P o .05) improves degraded land soil bulk density, pH, CEC, OC, TN, Av.P, K, Na, Ca, Mg and clay characteristics. Moreover, there was a significant (P o .05) difference between farmers’ perception of the effectiveness of physical, biological and integration of the two practices to control soil erosion. 48% of the farmers perceived that using both biological methods and the integration of biological with physical structures was more successful for controlling erosion and improving soil fertility. Logistic regression analysis revealed strong association (R2 ¼ 0.84) between farmers’ perception on elephant grass and sesbanias' roles in soil conservation and groups of explanatory variables. Among the variables age, education and extension service significantly (P o .05) influenced farmers’ perception on the practices. Generally, elephant grass and sesbania are effective biological practices for rehabilitating lands and improving soil properties through minimizing erosion.
2 Minh, Thai Thi; Schmitter, Petra. 2020. Co-identification of value chain-based pathway for scaling of irrigation technologies and services: cases in Basona Worana and Lemo woredas in Ethiopia. Nairobi, Kenya: International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI); Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). 29p.
Agricultural value chains ; Irrigation practices ; Technology ; Irrigation schemes ; Irrigation equipment ; Water management ; Irrigated farming ; Vegetables ; Fruits ; Innovation platforms ; Extension activities ; Market access ; Marketing channels ; Water lifting ; Water user associations ; Farmers ; Stakeholders ; Innovation scaling / Ethiopia / Basona Worana / Lemo
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H050262)
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https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H050262.pdf
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3 Tesfaye, M. Z.; Balana, B. B.; Bizimana, J.-C. 2021. Assessment of smallholder farmers’ demand for and adoption constraints to small-scale irrigation technologies: evidence from Ethiopia. Agricultural Water Management, 250:106855. (Online first) [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agwat.2021.106855]
Irrigation water ; Water lifting ; Technology ; Adoption ; Constraints ; Small scale systems ; Smallholders ; Farmers ; Willingness to pay ; Assessment ; Households ; Livelihoods ; Models / Ethiopia / Adami-Tulu / Dangla / Bahir-Dar Zuria / Lemo
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H050297)
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Increasing agricultural productivity through irrigation technologies is recognized as an effective way to improve smallholders’ livelihoods and food security in developing countries. However, most smallholder farmers do not have access to irrigation technologies. Using a double-bounded contingent valuation survey data from smallholders in Ethiopia and probit and bivariate probit models, this paper analyzes smallholder farmers’ demand for agricultural water lifting technologies (WLTs) and the factors affecting the demand for these technologies. Assessment of farmers’ preferences among three water lifting technologies available in local markets (motorized pump, rope and washer and pulley) show that farmers prefer motorized pumps to pulley or rope and washer technologies. Use of motorized pumps is more efficient and save labour than pulley or rope and washer technologies. However, results show that smallholders are constrained by inadequate access to financing options to adopt more efficient and labour-saving water lifting technology and hence operate below the production possibility frontier. Enhanced access to finance could help ease this constraint and allow smallholders to acquire more efficient irrigation technologies, enhance adoption and improve productivity. With a growing population pressure and land fragmentation in rural Ethiopia, the livelihoods of smallholders depend mainly on the meagre land endowment they possess. Increasing the productivity of land using yield enhancing technologies, particularly multiple cropping per year via small-scale irrigation is key to improve their livelihoods. Targeted interventions are thus warranted to mitigate the key adoption constraints such as improving access to credit and technical know-how of smallholders.
4 Hammond, J.; van Wijk, M.; Teufel, N.; Mekonnen, K.; Thorne, P. 2021. Assessing smallholder sustainable intensification in the Ethiopian highlands. Agricultural Systems, 194:103266. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agsy.2021.103266]
Sustainable intensification ; Sustainable agriculture ; Smallholders ; Highlands ; Agricultural production ; Agricultural productivity ; Farming systems ; Food security ; Farm income ; Households ; Social welfare ; Indicators ; Livestock / Ethiopia / Basona Worena / Endamehoni / Lemo / Sinana
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H050757)
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https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H050757.pdf
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CONTEXT: Sustainable intensification is one approach to increasing food production without undermining sustainability goals. In recent years new tools and indicators have been developed for broad-based assessment of sustainable intensification. However, most of these tools have been applied at field level and assessing individual technologies, while integrated assessments of multiple novel practices at farm-to-village level are lacking.
OBJECTIVE: In this study we develop and apply a data collection, analysis, and interpretation approach that results in a replicable and rapid method for a multi-variate assessment of sustainable intensification.
METHODS: Drawing on a survey of 779 participant farmers, and using the Sustainable Intensification Assessment Framework, we quantified 27 indicators grouped into five domains: agricultural production, economics, environment, human welfare, and social. We applied an expert-led threshold setting exercise to re-scale indicators, permitting aggregated and dis-aggregated visualisation onto a common axis. We developed a graphic evaluation approach to communicate the multiple domain and indicator scores and applied this approach to quantify trade-offs and synergies related to agricultural productivity in four contrasting sites in Ethiopia.
RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS: In each site there was a notable and significant gradient of production intensity, although average crop and livestock productivity remained well below attainable levels. Higher levels of productivity were correlated with higher scores in the economic, social and agricultural domains, and in some sites they were also positively correlated with the human welfare and environmental domains. In no case was increased production intensity correlated with lower scores in any of the sustainability domains, indicating that in these relatively low-intensity systems increases in productivity will go hand-in-hand with improvements in most other sustainability domains. Synergies can overrule trade-offs in these smallholder systems in Ethiopia, if managed well.
SIGNIFICANCE: This is one of very few studies of multiple sustainable intensification technologies implemented concurrently at the household to community level. Most studies focus on individual technologies or practices within specific niches of the farming system. The method could be developed further for efficient application to various large-scale development or intensification projects, and could potentially make use of existing smallholder information databases.
OBJECTIVE: In this study we develop and apply a data collection, analysis, and interpretation approach that results in a replicable and rapid method for a multi-variate assessment of sustainable intensification.
METHODS: Drawing on a survey of 779 participant farmers, and using the Sustainable Intensification Assessment Framework, we quantified 27 indicators grouped into five domains: agricultural production, economics, environment, human welfare, and social. We applied an expert-led threshold setting exercise to re-scale indicators, permitting aggregated and dis-aggregated visualisation onto a common axis. We developed a graphic evaluation approach to communicate the multiple domain and indicator scores and applied this approach to quantify trade-offs and synergies related to agricultural productivity in four contrasting sites in Ethiopia.
RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS: In each site there was a notable and significant gradient of production intensity, although average crop and livestock productivity remained well below attainable levels. Higher levels of productivity were correlated with higher scores in the economic, social and agricultural domains, and in some sites they were also positively correlated with the human welfare and environmental domains. In no case was increased production intensity correlated with lower scores in any of the sustainability domains, indicating that in these relatively low-intensity systems increases in productivity will go hand-in-hand with improvements in most other sustainability domains. Synergies can overrule trade-offs in these smallholder systems in Ethiopia, if managed well.
SIGNIFICANCE: This is one of very few studies of multiple sustainable intensification technologies implemented concurrently at the household to community level. Most studies focus on individual technologies or practices within specific niches of the farming system. The method could be developed further for efficient application to various large-scale development or intensification projects, and could potentially make use of existing smallholder information databases.
5 International Water Management Institute (IWMI). 2021. Prices, loans or ambiguity? Factors influencing groundwater irrigation adoption in Ethiopia. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). 4p. (IWMI Water Policy Brief 42) [doi: https://doi.org/10.5337/2021.225]
Groundwater irrigation ; Farmer-led irrigation ; Water pricing ; Loans ; Pumps ; Private ownership ; Groundwater extraction ; Boreholes ; Wells ; Water drilling ; Solar energy ; Irrigated land ; Climate change ; Forecasting ; Policies ; Hunger ; Smallholders / Ethiopia / Amhara / Southern Nations, Nationalities, and People’s Region (SNNPR) / Dera / Lemo
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H050809)
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Governments in sub-Saharan Africa promote the expansion of irrigation to improve food security, primarily through the adoption and use of groundwater-based smallholder private irrigation. Using the case of Ethiopia, we examine farmers’ willingness to adopt smallholder private irrigation packages in response to subsidies on pump prices, loan availability and reduction in ambiguities related to borehole drilling. The results of the research highlight that subsidizing pump prices may not be the best use of public funds to expand irrigation. Instead, decreasing ambiguities around borehole drilling is likely to play a significant role and is a cost-effective step toward expanding groundwater-based irrigation and increasing the adoption of pumps by small-scale farmers. The policy implication is that the government should help farmers minimize the uncertainties and cost of unsuccessful drilling. This will require the government to study groundwater hydrogeology, use information on groundwater depth, seasonality and recharge to drill boreholes, and absorb the costs of unsuccessful drilling.
6 International Water Management Institute (IWMI). 2023. Scaling solar-based irrigation bundles in Ethiopia: a market linkage pathway. Adaptive Innovation Scaling - Pathways from Small-scale Irrigation to Sustainable Development. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). 8p. (IWMI Water Issue Brief 20) [doi: https://doi.org/10.5337/2022.227]
Solar powered irrigation systems ; Scaling up ; Markets ; Innovation adoption ; Agricultural innovation ; Small-scale irrigation ; Sustainable development ; Farmers ; Gender ; Irrigation equipment ; Technology ; Pumps ; Irrigation scheduling ; Fruits ; Vegetables ; Value chains ; Financing ; Credit sales ; Market segmentation ; Stakeholders ; Governmental organizations ; Non-governmental organizations ; Private sector ; Innovation scaling / Ethiopia / Lemo
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H051581)
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7 Xie, H.; Dile, Y. T.; Ringler, C.; Srinivasan, R.; Worqlul, A. W. 2023. Toward a better understanding of the environmental impacts of expanding farmer-led irrigation in Sub-Saharan Africa: an exploratory assessment of irrigation-induced risk of nutrient water pollution in Ethiopia. Environmental Research Communications, 5(6):065001. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1088/2515-7620/acd6db]
Farmer-led irrigation ; Environmental impact ; Water pollution ; Fertilizers ; Crop production ; Agricultural production ; Rain ; Cropping patterns ; Land management / Africa South of Sahara / Ethiopia / Bahir Dar Zuria / Dangla / Adami Tulu / Lemo
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H052003)
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2515-7620/acd6db/pdf
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Irrigation, and especially farmer-led irrigation, is considered to be a promising option for enhancing agricultural productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa. However, there is a lack of thorough understanding of the impacts of irrigation development on environment. Past discussions are mainly limited to the water depletion and hydrological regime change effect of irrigation. This paper presents a study to narrow the knowledge gap by assessing nutrient water pollution risk induced by the expansion of farmer-led irrigation in Ethiopia. Using household survey data collected from four woredas in Ethiopia where irrigated crop production currently concentrates, we first evaluate the impact of irrigation on cropping intensity and annual consumption level of fertilizers and then use the findings of the household survey data analysis to support conceptualization of a modeling framework for assessing agricultural nutrient water pollution risk from farmer-led irrigation development in Ethiopia at national scale. We project that overall farmer-led irrigation development in Ethiopia will lead to a gentle increase in national total of agricultural nutrient loadings. This result helps justify the endeavor of promoting farmer-led irrigation in Ethiopia. On the other hand, the projected nutrient flow and nutrient loading growth rate related to the farmer-led irrigation expansion are highly heterogeneous spatially, and risk of local water quality deterioration exists. There is still need to make investment to ensure the environmental sustainability of farmer-led irrigation development.
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