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1 Mermoud, A.; Tamini, T. D.; Yacouba, H.. 2005. Impacts of different irrigation schedules on the water balance components of an onion crop in a semi-arid zone. Agricultural Water Management, 77(1-3):282-295.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: PER Record No: H037436)
2 Barbier, B.; Ouedraogo, H.; Dembele, Y.; Yacouba, H.; Barry, Boubacar; Jamin, J.-Y. 2011. L'agriculture irriguee dans le Sahel ouest-africain. In French. [Irrigation in West-African Sahel: diversity of practices and levels of performance]. Cahiers Agricultures, 20(1-2):24-33. [doi: https://doi.org/ 10.1684/agr.2011.0475]
Irrigation methods ; Water management ; Rural development ; Economic aspects ; Land use ; Food production ; Policy / Africa / Sahel
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H043866)
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Irrigation in Sahelian West African countries covers a wide variety of systems and practices. In this paper, we discuss various technical and managerial options including free or controlled submersion, improved inland valleys, ood recession cropping, and full control in small and large irrigation schemes through a classi cation developed by national experts in ve Sahelian countries. Governments are currently promoting two strategies. One is based on large schemes, with foreign or national private investment. The other is based on small private irrigation approches. Water constraints are notvery strongly taken into account, as the priority is to develop new schemes in order to reach food security for fast growing cities.
3 Dembele, Y.; Yacouba, H.; Keita, A.; Sally, Hilmy. 2012. Assessment of irrigation system performance in south-western Burkina Faso. Irrigation and Drainage, 61(3):306-315. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ird.647]
Irrigation systems ; Irrigation schemes ; Methodology ; Assessment ; Performance ; Indicators ; Crop production ; Rice ; Profitability / Burkina Faso / Vallee du Kou / Karfiguela
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: PER Record No: H044384)
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A methodology for assessing irrigation system performance was developed by the then International Irrigation Management Institute (IIMI, now IWMI) in the 1990s in Burkina Faso. It was applied successfully to small-scale reservoir-based irrigation schemes (50–150 ha). The current study was carried out on two larger river-diversion irrigation systems in the south-west of the country, namely Vallée du Kou (1200 ha) and Karfiguéla (350 ha), in order to analyse and verify:the applicability of the methodology to large-scale river-diversion schemes with more complex hydraulic networks and greater economic activities;the relevance of the performance indicators used and the constraints pertaining to the acquisition of the basic data required for their determination;the scope for adoption and application of the methodology by farmers’ organizations for routine performance monitoring.The methodology seems well suited for large-scale irrigation systems, but its adoption by farmers’ organizations has to be facilitated and accompanied by adequate training and the close involvement of the system managers. The indicators requiring the manipulation of a few physical elements can be determined relatively easily. Those involving water measurements are more difficult to calculate. The study makes a critical analysis of some indicators and demonstrates the evidence of the necessity to select among the indicators with regard to the irrigation system context.
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