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1 van Koppen, Barbara; Schreiner, B.; Burchi, S.; Cullis, J.; Denison, J.; Cardoso, P.; Gabriel, M. J.; Garduno, H.; Karar, E.; Moseki, C.; Tapela, B.; Rumble, O.; Salomon, M.; Stein, R. 2012. Comment to the draft general authorisation for the taking and storage of water, General notice 288 of 2012, by the Department of Water Affairs, South Africa, 4 June 2012. Pretoria, South Africa: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). 8p.
Water management ; Water storage ; Water users ; Water use ; Regulations ; Water law ; Non governmental organizations ; Gender ; Public participation / South Africa
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H045709)
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2 van Koppen, Barbara; Nhamo, Luxon; Cai, Xueliang; Gabriel, M. J.; Sekgala, M.; Shikwambana, S.; Tshikolomo, K.; Nevhutanda, S.; Matlala, B.; Manyama, D. 2017. Smallholder irrigation schemes in the Limpopo Province, South Africa. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). 36p. (IWMI Working Paper 174) [doi: https://doi.org/10.5337/2017.206]
Irrigation schemes ; Small scale systems ; Smallholders ; Social aspects ; Gender ; Water resources ; Water quality ; Infrastructure ; Rehabilitation ; Seasonal cropping ; Farmland ; Marketing ; Poverty ; Irrigated land ; Land tenure ; Land ownership ; Soils ; Vegetables ; Farmers ; Utilization ; State intervention / South Africa / Limpopo Province
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI Record No: H048142)
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A survey of 76 public smallholder irrigation schemes in the Limpopo Province was jointly conducted by the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF), South Africa, and the Limpopo Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (LDARD), as part of the ‘Revitalization of Smallholder Irrigation in South Africa’ project. About one-third of those schemes was fully utilized; one-third partially utilized; and one-third not utilized in the winter of 2015; however, no single socioeconomic, physical, agronomic and marketing variable could explain these differences in utilization. Sale, mostly for informal markets, appeared the most important goal. Dilapidated infrastructure was the most important constraint cited by the farmers. The study recommends ways to overcome the build-neglect-rebuild syndrome, and to learn lessons from informal irrigation, which covers an area three to four times as large as public irrigation schemes in the province.
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