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1 Ferguson, A.; Derman, B. 1990. Whose commons? Fishermen, developmentalists and conservationists on Lake Malawi. Draft paper prepared for the First International Association for the Study of Common Property: Designing Sustainability on the Commons, Duke University, 27-30 September 1990. 17p.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: P 1702 Record No: H07415)
2 Derman, B.; Ferguson, A.. 2003. Value of water: Political ecology and water reform in Southern Africa. Human Organization, 62(3):277-288.
Water resource management ; Political aspects ; Ecology ; Water law ; Water scarcity / Southern Africa / Zimbabwe
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: PER Record No: H033687)
3 Ferguson, A.; Mulwafu, W. 2007. If government failed, how are we to succeed?: the importance of history and context in present-day irrigation reform in Malawi. 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.211-227. (Comprehensive Assessment of Water Management in Agriculture Series 5)
Irrigation management ; Privatization ; Farmers associations ; Water user associations ; Water policy ; Land policies / Malawi
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI 346.04691 G000 VAN Record No: H040696)
4 Kadyampakeni, D. M.; Mloza-Banda, H. R.; Singa, D. D.; Mangisoni, J. H.; Ferguson, A.; Snapp, S. 2013. Agronomic and socio-economic analysis of water management techniques for dry season cultivation of common bean in Malawi. Editorial. Irrigation Science, 31(4):537-544. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00271-012-0333-5]
Water management ; Socioeconomic environment ; Agronomic practices ; Water use efficiency ; Dry season ; Dry farming ; Kidney beans ; Crop yield ; Irrigation methods ; Small scale systems ; Performance evaluation ; Cost benefit analysis ; Farmers ; Labor / Malawi / Zomba
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H047691)
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A study was carried out in Malawi to compare agronomic and socio-economic aspects of different water management practices for two advanced bean lines. Four irrigation technologies and one control were studied in Chingale Area Development Program in Zomba District in southern Malawi. The technologies encompassed motorized pumps (MP), treadle pumps (TP), water cans, gravity-fed surface irrigation (GR) and a non-irrigated practice that used residual moisture. The study found that technologies that used \2 labour hours m-3 were appropriate for such small-scale irrigation systems. The aggregated bean production labour cost and labourday thresholds were $893 ha-1 and 2,978 LD ha-1 , respectively. An irrigation supply in the range of 7,000–10,000 m3 ha-1 for the TP, MP and GR would be adequate. Assuming 20 irrigations season-1 , 400–600 m3 irrigation-1 would be adequate, supplying 40–60 mm every 5–7 days. The study found that poor small-scale farmers in Malawi, particularly those using MPs, need fuel subsidies in order to offset operational costs. Basing on the findings in the study, we recommend further research on several bean lines in different agro-ecologies of Malawi using technologies that showed high yields, low labour efficiency and high water use productivity.
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