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1 Drechsel, P.; Kunze, D. (Eds.) 2001. Waste composting for urban and peri-urban agriculture: closing the rural-urban nutrient cycle in Sub-Saharan Africa. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI); Rome, Italy: FAO; Wallingford, UK: CABI. xvii, 229p.
Waste management ; Economic aspects ; Social aspects ; Farmers' attitudes ; Environment ; Agricultural production ; Crop yield ; Case studies ; Farming systems ; Recycling ; Vegetables ; Priority setting / Sub-Saharan Africa / East Africa / West Africa / Europe / Ghana / Kumasi / Accra / Lome / Dar es Salaam
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: IWMI 631.875 G100 DRE Record No: H029240)
Book mainly based on papers presented at a workshop held in Ghana by IBSRAM (now part of the IWMI) and FAO on waste management and environmental protection, ameliorating problems by turning organic waste into compost for use as an agricultural fertilizer in urban and peri-urban areas.
2 Defoer, T. 2000. Moving methodologies: Learning about integrated soil fertility management in sub-saharan Africa. Den Haag, The Netherlands: Wageningen University. ix, 189p. :ill. ;25 cm.
(Location: IWMI-SEA Call no: 631.422 G100 DEF Record No: BKK-07)
PhD Thesis Wageningen University. with references. with summaries in English and Dutch.
3 McCarthy, N.; Kamara, A.; Kirk, M. 2003. Co-operation in risky environments: Evidence from Southern Ethiopia. Journal of African Economies, 12(2):236-270.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: IWMI 338.1 G136 McC Record No: H032529)
The semi-arid and arid rangelands of Sub-Saharan Africa are characterized by high variability and by heavy reliance of herders on access to common resources, predominantly pasture and water. In these systems, the capacity of the community to co-operate over resource management is critical and the effectiveness of management has a direct impact on exploitation rates and land allocation patterns. In this paper, we develop a model to capture the impact of climatic variability on capacity to co-operate and on resulting land use and allocation patterns, and apply the model to data collected from communities located on the Borana Plateau in southern Ethiopia. Results indicate that rainfall variability has a negative impact on stock densities, consistent with risk-averse producer behavior, but has no statistically significant impact on land allocation patterns in this marginal area. Furthermore, co-operation has a direct negative impact on stock densities and land allocated to private pastures. The results support the hypothesis that individual incentives to overgraze and encroach on common pastures can be mitigated in communities with high co-operative capacity.
4 Levite, H.; Faysse, N.; Ardorino, F. 2003. Resolving water use conflicts through stakeholder participation: Issues and examples from the Steelpoort Basin in South Africa. African Water Journal, Pilot edition, December:30-42.
Land management ; Water management ; Conflict resolution ; Water use efficiency / Sub Saharan Africa
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: VL Record No: H033911)
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5 Cooper, P. J. M.; Dimes, J.; Rao, K. P. C.; Shapiro, B.; Shiferaw, B.; Twomlow, S. 2008. Coping better with current climatic variability in the rain-fed farming systems of sub-Saharan Africa: an essential first step in adapting to future climate change? Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment, 126: 24–35.
(Location: IWMI HQ Record No: H041086)
6 Critchley, W.; Gowing, J. (Eds.) 2012. Water harvesting in Sub-Sharan Africa. Abingdon, UK: Routledge - Earthscan. 201p.
Water harvesting ; History ; Crop production ; Food security ; Rainfed farming ; Drought ; Technology ; Investment ; Water conservation ; Groundwater recharge ; Water policy ; Runoff ; Non governmental organizations ; Environmental effects ; Spate irrigation ; Literature reviews / Sub-Saharan Africa / Burkina Faso / Ethiopia / Kenya / Niger / Tanzania / Sudan / Zimbabwe
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 627.50967 G110 CRI Record No: H045642)
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7 Salami, A.; Stampini, M.; Kamara, A.; Sullivan, C.; Namara, Regassa. 2011. Development aid and access to water and sanitation in Sub-Saharan Africa. Tunis, Tunisia: African Development Bank (AfDB). 37p. (African Development Bank Working Paper 140)
Water resources ; Water policy ; Drinking water ; Water supply ; Sanitation ; Development aid ; Development projects ; Development banks ; Indicators ; Case studies ; Economic aspects / Sub-Saharan Africa
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H045701)
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Providing safe drinking water and basic sanitation to citizens is one of the major challenges facing the African Governments. The issues of access to safe drinking water and improved sanitation is well articulated and prioritized in the various national, continental, and international policy documents, strategy papers, declarations, and conventions. And yet it is not clear if the provision of sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation has been given the requisite financial and other support by the SSA policy makers and donors. The principal objective of this paper is to compare countries’ performance in the water and sanitation sector and analyze how effectively they used the development aid received for the Water and Sanitation sector (WSS). Much has been written on Development Aid Effectiveness, but the focus of attention has often been on how the donors operate, and how the recipients use the money. In this context, the paper utilised an innovative standardized measurement framework known as-the Watsan Index of Development Effectiveness (WIDE) - which compares drivers of progress with results achieved, and ranks African countries by the level of outcome obtained per unit of available input. In particular, how effectively they used the development aid received for the water and sanitation sector. The WIDE is made up of two composite information layers, the Resources (input drivers such as aid received, GDP, water resources, and governance level), and the Progress Outcomes (access to water, access to sanitation, and progress in the two). We also performed econometric analyses to explore the linkages between interventions designed to promote development, and the outcomes from that development process, in the water and sanitation sector. These analyses were further validated by presentation of the WSS sector situation of four case study countries namely, Kenya, Madagascar, Burkina Faso and Uganda.
8 Villholth, Karen G.; Ganeshamoorthy, G.; Rundblad, C. M.; Knudsen, T. S. 2013. Smallholder groundwater irrigation in Sub-Saharan Africa: an interdisciplinary framework applied to the Usangu Plains, Tanzania. Hydrogeology Journal, 21(7):1481-1495. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10040-013-1016-x]
Groundwater irrigation ; Groundwater development ; Smallholders ; Plains ; Socioeconomic environment ; Irrigated farming ; Farmland ; Water drilling ; Pumps ; Poverty ; Farmer-led irrigation ; Policy / Sub-Saharan Africa / Tanzania / Usangu Plains
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H045947)
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A simple but comprehensive framework for analysing the potential for and constraints to groundwater development for irrigated agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa is proposed. The framework, based on food value chain principles, is applied to the sub-Saharan context and a specific catchment in Tanzania, the Usangu plains, where groundwater has been proposed as a strategic resource for augmenting food production and smallholder livelihoods and to alleviate seasonal water scarcity. The novel contribution of the work is the presentation of a tool that can be applied to support an interdisciplinary approach to systematically identify most significant barriers and most critical water management and development interventions for sustainable development of groundwater irrigation. The result of the case study shows that farmer economics, capacity, and pump and well drilling market constraints limit groundwater irrigation in the Usangu plains rather than hydrogeological conditions.
9 Global Water Partnership (GWP). 2013. Water and food security – experiences in India and China. A technical focus paper. Stockholm, Sweden: Global Water Partnership (GWP). 47p.
Water resources ; Water management ; Participatory management ; Water use ; Water governance ; Water quality ; Groundwater irrigation ; Water law ; Food security ; Food production / India / China / Pakistan / South Africa / Sub-Saharan Africa
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H046010)
http://www.gwptoolbox.org/images/stories/gwplibrary/technical_focus/food%20security_gwp_tech_focus_paper_web.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H046010.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H046010.pdf
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10 Xenarios, Stefanos; Pavelic, Paul. 2013. Assessing and forecasting groundwater development costs in Sub-Saharan Africa. Water SA, 39(4):529-537. [doi: https://doi.org/10.4314/wsa.v39i4.12]
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H046014)
http://www.ajol.info/index.php/wsa/article/download/91097/80532
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H046014.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H046014.pdf
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Greater use of groundwater in Sub-Saharan Africa is a pre-requisite for improved human welfare; however, the costs associated with groundwater development are prohibitively high and poorly defined. This study identifies and disaggregates the costs of groundwater development in 11 Sub-Saharan African countries, while the cost factors that most strongly affect drilling expenditures are traced. Further, the institutional and technical constraints impeding groundwater development are also explored while a time-series analysis forecasts future drilling expenditures. The results indicate that mobilisation and demobilisation costs, together with well development costs, factors that are difficult to change, are most significantly affecting the total costs of drilling. Further, the nature of the hydrogeological formation (which is largely a site characteristic), along with the often-aged machinery (which can be controlled), are also major impediments to lowering the cost of drilling. All countries are forecasted to have a slight to considerable drilling cost decrease for the next decade which offers encouragement for future groundwater development. Greater attention to the individual cost factors and to forecasting analysis could help to design more coherent and consistent groundwater development policies in Sub-Saharan Africa.
11 Pavelic, Paul; Villholth, Karen G.; Shu, Yunqiao; Rebelo, Lisa-Maria; Smakhtin, Vladimir. 2013. Smallholder groundwater irrigation in Sub-Saharan Africa: country-level estimates of development potential. Water International, 38(4):392-407. (Special issue on "Sustainable groundwater development for improved livelihoods in Sub-Saharan Africa, Part 1" with contributions by IWMI authors). [doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/02508060.2013.819601]
Groundwater resources ; Groundwater irrigation ; Groundwater recharge ; Irrigation development ; Irrigated sites ; Smallholders ; Water balance ; Water demand ; Water use ; Farmer-led irrigation ; Environmental effects / Sub-Saharan Africa
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: PER Record No: H046052)
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The abundance of groundwater resources of Sub-Saharan Africa is generally well recognized, but quantitative estimates of their potential for irrigation development are lacking. This study derives estimates using a simple and generic water balance approach and data from secondary sources for 13 countries. Even with conservative assumptions and accounting for water demands from other sectors, including the environment, a 120-fold increase (by 13.5 million hectares) in the area under groundwater irrigation is possible for the countries considered. This expansion could improve the livelihoods of approximately 40% of the present-day rural population.
12 Pavelic, Paul; Villholth, Karen G.; Verma, Shilp. 2013. Identifying the barriers and pathways forward for expanding the use of groundwater for irrigation in Sub-Saharan Africa. Water International, 38(4):363-368. (Special issue on "Sustainable groundwater development for improved livelihoods in Sub-Saharan Africa, Part 1" with contributions by IWMI authors). [doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/02508060.2013.821643]
Groundwater resources ; Groundwater irrigation ; Smallholders ; Farmers ; Irrigated farming ; Pumps ; Investment / Sub-Saharan Africa
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: PER Record No: H046062)
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13 Pavelic, Paul; Villholth, Karen G.; Verma, Shilp. (Eds.) 2013. Sustainable groundwater development for improved livelihoods in Sub-Saharan Africa. Part 1. Water International, 38(4):363-503. (Special issue with contributions by IWMI authors).
Groundwater development ; Groundwater irrigation ; Groundwater recharge ; Living standards ; Sustainability ; Small scale systems ; Smallholders ; Evapotranspiration ; Dry season ; Pumps ; Hydrogeology ; Water quality / Sub-Saharan Africa / Ghana / Niger / Ethiopia / Zambia
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: PER Record No: H046254)
14 Pavelic, Paul; Villholth, Karen G.; Verma, Shilp. (Eds.) 2013. Sustainable groundwater development for improved livelihoods in Sub-Saharan Africa. Part 2. Water International, 38(6):790-863. (Special issue with contributions by IWMI authors).
Groundwater development ; Groundwater irrigation ; Living standards ; Sustainability ; Pumps ; Smallholders ; Water user associations ; Poverty ; Gender ; Cost benefit analysis / Sub-Saharan Africa / Ghana / Ethiopia / Zambia
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: PER Record No: H046255)
15 Villholth, Karen G. 2013. Groundwater irrigation for smallholders in Sub-Saharan Africa – a synthesis of current knowledge to guide sustainable outcomes. Water International, 38(4):369-391. (Special issue on "Sustainable groundwater development for improved livelihoods in Sub-Saharan Africa, Part 1" with contributions by IWMI authors). [doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/02508060.2013.821644]
Groundwater irrigation ; Irrigation development ; Smallholders ; Farmers ; Pumps ; Drilling ; Wells ; Socio-economic environment ; Credit ; Capital ; Energy ; Land tenure ; Corporate culture ; Farmer-led irrigation ; Policy / Sub-Saharan Africa
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: PER Record No: H046063)
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/02508060.2013.821644
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H046063.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H046063.pdf
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Groundwater irrigation for smallholder farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa is growing in extent and importance. This growth is primarily driven spontaneously by the farmers themselves, spurred by improved access to low-cost technologies for pumps and drilling services as well as market opportunities for produce. This paper presents a review of the current status and knowledge of the prospects and constraints for sustainable and pro-poor groundwater irrigation in Sub-Saharan Africa. Further unlocking the potential of groundwater irrigation for smallholders will require better integrated approaches, simultaneously addressing groundwater-access constraints as well as enabling factors.
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