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1 Hatibu, N.; Mahoo, H.. 2001. Rainwater harvesting technologies for agricultural production: A case for Dodoma, Tanzania. Unpublished report. Sokoine University of Agriculture. Department of Agricultural Engineering and Land Planning, Morogoro, Tanzania. 20p.
Water harvesting ; Water storage ; Crop production ; Soil moisture ; Surface runoff ; Tillage ; Bunds ; Catchment areas / Tanzania / Dodoma
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: P 5754 Record No: H028550)
2 Lankford, B.; Hatibu, N.; Mahoo, H.; van Koppen, B.; Levite, H. 2002. Critical analysis of river basin management in the Great Ruaha, Tanzania. In Toolbox, GWP. River Basin Management in the Great Ruaha River Basin, Tanzania. 13p. (GWP No.121)
River basins ; Water management ; Analysis ; Water scarcity ; Catchment areas ; Case studies ; Irrigated farming ; Wetlands ; Drainage ; Development projects ; Water rights / Tanzania / Ruaha River
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: IWMI 333.91 G148 LAN Record No: H030752)
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3 van Koppen, Barbara; Sokile, C. S.; Hatibu, N.; Lankford, B. A.; Mahoo, H.; Yanda, P.Z. 2004. Formal water rights in rural Tanzania: deepening the dichotomy? Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). vii, 26p. (IWMI Working Paper 071) [doi: https://doi.org/10.3910/2009.258]
Water rights ; Water law ; Water scarcity ; Water use ; Water user associations ; Irrigation water ; Cost recovery / Tanzania / Upper Ruaha Catchment
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: IWMI 631.7.3 G148 VAN Record No: H035857)
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In the past decade the Tanzanian government, with a loan from the World Bank, designed and implemented a new administrative water rights system with the aim of improving basin-level water management and cost-recovery for government water-resource management services. This paper evaluates the processes and impacts after the first years of implementing the new system in the Upper Ruaha catchment. In this area, the majority of water users are small-scale irrigators and livestock keepers who develop and manage water according to customary arrangements, without much state support. Although water resources are abundant, growing water demands intensify water scarcity during the dry season. Contrary to expectations, the new system has failed as a registration tool, a taxation tool, and a water management tool, and has also contributed to aggravating rural poverty. As a taxation tool, the system not only introduces corruption by design, but also drains government coffers because the collection costs are higher than any revenue gained. As a water management tool, the new system aggravates upstream-downstream conflicts, because the upstream water users claim that paying for water entitles them to use it as they like. However, unlike these and other counterproductive impacts of the new system, the taxation of the few private large-scale water users according to negotiated rates appeared to be feasible. The paper argues that the root of these paradoxical results lies in the dichotomy between the 'modern' large-scale rural and urban economy with its corresponding legislation and the rural spheres in which Tanzania's majority of small-scale water users live under customary water tenure. While the new water rights system fits the relatively better-off minority to some extent, it is an anomaly for Tanzania's majority of poor water users. This paper concludes by suggesting easy adaptations in the current water rights system that would accommodate both groups water users, improve cost-recovery for government services, mitigate water conflicts and alleviate rural poverty.
4 Mkoga, Z. J.; Hatibu, N.; Mahoo, H.; Lankford, B.; Rao, K. P. C. 2005. Disparity of attitudes and practices on a concept of productivity of water in agriculture in the Great Ruaha River Sub-Basin. Paper presented at the East Africa Integrated River Basin Management Conference, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro, Tanzania, 7-9 March 2005. [Vol.1]. Funded by IWMI, and others. 11p.
River basins ; Water use ; Productivity ; Assessment ; Irrigation programs / Tanzania / Ruaha River Sub-Basin / Rufiji Basin / Usangu Plains
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: IWMI 333.91 G132 SOK Record No: H037496)
5 Kasele, S. S.; Mlozi, M. R. S.; Hatibu, N.; Mahoo, H.. 2005. Knowledge sharing and communication tools for dialogue issues on productivity of water in agriculture: case study of Mkoji Sub Catchment in Usangu Plains, Tanzania. Paper presented at the East Africa Integrated River Basin Management Conference, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro, Tanzania, 7-9 March 2005. [Vol.1]. Funded by IWMI, and others. 27p.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: IWMI 333.91 G132 SOK Record No: H037527)
6 Lutkam, M.; Shetto, M.; Hatibu, N.; Mahoo, H.. 2005. Strategies for scaling-up research findings on natural resource management. Paper presented at the East Africa Integrated River Basin Management Conference, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro, Tanzania, 7-9 March 2005. [Vol.1]. Funded by IWMI, and others. 16p.
River basins ; Water resource management ; Watershed management ; Water policy ; Communication / Tanzania / Great Ruaha Basin
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: IWMI 333.91 G132 SOK Record No: H037528)
7 Lankford, B.; van Koppen, Barbara; Franks, T.; Mahoo, H.. 2004. Entrenched views or insufficient science?: contested causes and solutions of water allocation: Insights from the Great Ruaha River Basin, Tanzania. Agricultural Water Management, 69(2):135-153.
River basins ; Water resource management ; Assessment ; Irrigation management ; Case studies / Tanzania / Great Ruaha River Basin
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: PER Record No: H035692)
8 Molden, David; Oweis, T. Y.; Pasquale, S.; Kijne, J. W.; Hanjra, M. A.; Bindraban, P. S.; Bouman, B. A. M.; Cook, S.; Erenstein, O.; Farahani, H.; Hachum, A.; Hoogeveen, J.; Mahoo, H.; Nangia, V.; Peden, D.; Sikka, A.; Silva, P.; Turral, Hugh; Upadhyaya, A.; Zwart, S. 2007. Pathways for increasing agricultural water productivity. In Molden, David (Ed.). Water for food, water for life: a Comprehensive Assessment of Water Management in Agriculture. London, UK: Earthscan; Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). pp.279-310.
Water use ; Productivity ; Crop production ; Evapotranspiration ; Water delivery ; Irrigation management ; Fisheries
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI 630.7 G000 IWM Record No: H040200)
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9 McCartney, Matthew P.; Lankford, B. A.; Mahoo, H.. 2007. Agricultural water management in a water stressed catchment: lessons from the RIPARWIN Project. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). 46p. (IWMI Research Report 116) [doi: https://doi.org/10.3910/2009.116]
River basin management ; Water stress ; Irrigation programs ; Irrigation management ; Irrigation efficiency ; Water use ; Water allocation ; Wetlands ; Water rights ; Water law ; Economic aspects ; Water rates ; User charges ; Water user associations ; Decision support tools / Tanzania / Great Ruaha River / Usangu Plains
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI 631.7 G148 MCC Record No: H040549)
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In the face of growing water stress and increasing concerns over the sustainability of water use, Tanzania has, in common with many other countries in Africa, focused largely on the development of more integrated catchment-wide approaches to water management. In the Great Ruaha River Basin, considerable effort has gone into increasing water productivity and the promotion of mechanisms for more efficient allocation of water resources. Over a period of five years, the RIPARWIN project investigated water management in the basin and evaluated the effectiveness of some of the mechanisms that have been introduced. The study findings are relevant to basins in developing countries where there is competition for water and irrigation is one of the main uses.
10 van Koppen, Barbara; Sokile, C. S.; Lankford, B. A.; Hatibu, N.; Mahoo, H.; Yanda, P. Z. 2007. Water rights and water fees in rural Tanzania. In Molle, Francois; Berkoff, J. (Eds.). Irrigation water pricing: the gap between theory and practice. Wallingford, UK: CABI. pp.143-164. (Comprehensive Assessment of Water Management in Agriculture Series 4)
Water rights ; Water costs ; Pricing ; Price policy ; Cost recovery ; User charges ; Legislation ; Water user associations ; Water allocation / Tanzania / Upper Ruaha Catchment
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI 631.7.4 G000 MOL Record No: H040605)
11 Mkoga, Z. J.; Lankford,B.; Hatibu, N.; Mahoo, H.; Rao, K. P. C.; Kasele, S.S. 2005. Disparity of attitudes and practices on a concept of productivity of water in agriculture in the Great Ruaha River sub-basin. In Lankford, B. A.; Mahoo, H. F. (Eds.). Proceedings of East Africa Integrated River Basin Management Conference, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro, Tanzania, 7 – 9 March 2005. Theme one: water productivity – methodologies and management. Morogoro, Tanzania: Soil-Water Management Research Group, Sokoine University of Agriculture. pp.29-39.
Stakeholders ; Water use efficiency ; Productivity ; Irrigation programs / Tanzania / Great Ruaha River sub-basin
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: CD Col Record No: H041147)
12 Komakech, H.; van Koppen, Barbara; Mahoo, H.; van der Zaag, P. 2011. Pangani river basin over time and space: on the interface of local and basin level responses. Agricultural Water Management, 98(11): 1740-1751. (Special issue on "Smallholder systems innovations for integrated watershed management in Sub-Saharan Africa" with contributions by IWMI authors). [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agwat.2010.06.011]
River basin development ; River basin management ; Institutions ; Water rights ; Water policy ; Water users ; Participatory management / Tanzania / Pangani River Basin
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: PER Record No: H043437)
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As the pressure on the water resources mounts within a river basin, institutional innovation may occur not as a result of a planned sequence of adjustments, but arising out of the interplay of several factors. By focusing on the basin trajectory this paper illustrates the importance of understanding how local level institutional arrangements interface with national-level policies and basin-wide institutions. We expand Molle’s typology of basin actors responses by explicitly introducing ameso-layer which depicts the interface where State-level and local-level initiatives and responses are played out; and focus on how this interaction finds expression in the creation and modification of hydraulic property rights. We subsequently apply this perspective to the case of Pangani River Basin in Tanzania.The Pangani River Basin development trajectory did not follow a linear path and sequence of responses. Attempts by the state government to establish ‘order’ in the basin by issuing water rights, levying water fees and designing a new basin institutional set-up have so far proven problematic, and instead generated ‘noise’ at the interface.So a water resources development in the Pangani has primarily focused on blue water, and the paper shows how investments in infrastructure to control blue water have shaped the relationship between water users, and between water user groups and the State. It remains unknown, however, what the implications will be of wide spread investments in improved green water use throughout the basin–not only hydrologically for the availability of blue water, but also socially for the livelihoods of the basin population, and for the evolving relationships between green and blue water users, and between them and the State. The paper concludes with a question: will green water development engender a similar double-edged material-symbolic dynamic as blue water development has.The findings of this paper demonstrate that the expanded typology of basin actors responses helps to better understand the present situation. Such an improved understanding is useful in analysing current and proposed interventions.
13 Bossio, Deborah; van der Zaag, P.; Jewitt, G.; Mahoo, H.. (Eds.) 2011. Smallholder system innovation for integrated watershed management in Sub-Saharan Africa. Agricultural Water Management, 98(11):1683-1773. (Special issue on "Smallholder systems innovations for integrated watershed management in Sub-Saharan Africa" with contributions by IWMI authors).
Watershed management ; Smallholders ; Farmers ; Yields ; Tillage ; Farming systems ; Dry farming ; Rainfed farming ; Case studies ; Water productivity ; Water allocation ; Water use ; Simulation models ; Grasslands ; Sloping land ; Land degradation ; Spate irrigation ; Satellite imagery ; River basins / Africa South of Sahara / South Africa / Tanzania / KwaZulu-Natal / Makanya catchment / Thukela River Basin / Pangani River Basin / South Pare Mountains
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: PER Record No: H044307)
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