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Agricultural Water Management in Africa: Lessons Learned and Future Directions provides an overview of the status of irrigation development and AWM practices and technologies in Africa and the global south, and provides guidelines, scenarios, and investment plans to guide the prioritization and operationalization of irrigation development and AWM under climate change. The African Union (AU) is driving investment and improvement in agricultural water management and transformation in Africa through the operationalization of the AU Irrigation Development and Agricultural Water Management in Africa (AU-IDAWM). The AU-IDAWM provides a framework that identifies four development pathways for enhanced agricultural water management practices across Africa. The pathways are as follows: (1) Improved water control and watershed management in rain-fed farming, (2) Farmer-led Irrigation Development (FLID), (3) Irrigation scheme development and modernisation, and (4) Unconventional water use for irrigation.
This book explores the status of AWM at a continental scale as guided by the AU-IDAWM pathways. It also incorporates case studies from the global South (Asia and Latin America) to foster south-south knowledge sharing. The book considers cross-cutting issues such as the water-energy-food nexus and circular economy within the context of sustainable AWM development.
Contents
Agricultural Water Management: An Overview of Concepts
The transformative role of treated wastewater in North Africa: Lessons learned and future directions
Effects of forage plantation on soil quality in the sub-humid Ethiopian Highlands: Implications for sustainable agriculture
The Status of Agricultural Water Management in Africa: Progress, challenges, and opportunities
Agricultural Water Management (AWM) in Maize-Based Systems: Challenges, Opportunities, and Sustainable Solutions in Kenya, Malawi, Zambia, and Zimbabwe
The Importance of Water for Agroecology Transitions in Semi-arid Regions of Sub-Saharan Africa
Optimising water productivity: Challenges and opportunities in smallholder irrigation schemes, a case of South Africa
AquaCrop model as a tool to forecast crop yield during the season: Lessons from Nepal, South Asia
Evaluation of drip and conventional surface irrigation in poorly drained naturally-irrigated lands of the Khorezm region: Lessons from Central Asia
Impacts and interventions to extreme weather events in southern Africa
Integrated water and land management practices: Demand-driven participatory research in the semi-arid region of central Tanzania
Gender Equality and Social Inclusion in Agricultural Water Management
Gender Dynamics and Power Relations in Water Management and Agricultural Innovations: A Case of Mpegnesso's Lowlands in Mali
Institutions and Governance for Agricultural Water Management for Resilient Food Systems
Summary: Crop-water productivity, the basis of agricultural water management
