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| Title | What is the irrigation potential for Africa? |
| Subtitle | A combined biophysical and socioeconomic approach |
| Author |
You, Liangzhi Ringler, Claudia Nelson, Gerald C. Wood-Sichra, Ulrike Robertson, Richard D. Wood, Stanley Guo, Zhe Zhu, Tingju Sun, Yan |
| ORCID | http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5999-4009 Guo, Zhe; http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8266-0488 Ringler, Claudia; http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5741-3867 Robertson, Richard; http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0546-2074 Wood-Sichra, Ulrike; http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7930-8814 You, Liangzhi; http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6882-3551 Zhu, Tingju; |
| Year | 2010 |
| Abstract | Although irrigation in Africa has the potential to boost agricultural productivities by at least 50 percent, food production on the continent is almost entirely rainfed. The area equipped for irrigation, currently slightly more than 13 million hectares, makes up just 6 percent of the total cultivated area. Eighty-five percent of Africa's poor live in rural areas and mostly depend on agriculture for their livelihoods. As a result, agricultural development is key to ending poverty on the continent. Many development organizations have recently proposed to significantly increase investments in irrigation in the region. However, the potential for irrigation investments in Africa is highly dependent upon geographic, hydrologic, agronomic, and economic factors that need to be taken into account when assessing the long-term viability and sustainability of planned projects. This paper analyzes large, dam-based and small-scale irrigation investment needs in Africa based on agronomic, hydrologic, and economic factors. This type of analysis can guide country- and local-level assessment of irrigation potential, which will be important to agricultural and economic development in Africa. |
| Series Name | IFPRI Discussion Paper |
| Series Number | 993 |
| Publisher | International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) |
| Place of publication | Washington, D.C. |
| Language | English |
| Record Type | Discussion paper |
| Peer Reviewed - PR or Non-PR | Non-PR |
| Subject - country location | AFRICA |
| Subject - keywords |
internal rate of return Investment irrigation potential large-scale irrigation small-scale irrigation |
| IFPRI Descriptors |
IFPRI1 GRP22 |
| IFPRI Division | EPTD |
| Access Rights | Open Access |
| LOC call number | IFPRIDP00993 |
| Physical description | 30 pages |
| IFPRI Web link | http://www.ifpri.org/publication/what-irrigation-potential-africa |
| Times cited-- Google Scholar | http://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=9388701093681008953&as_sdt=20005&sciodt=0,9&hl=en |
| RePEc Downloads | https://ideas.repec.org/p/fpr/ifprid/993.html |
| Requests | mailto:ifpri-library@cgiar.org |
| CONTENTdm file name | 2206.cpd |
| Date cataloged | 2016-09-07 |
| Date modified | 2016-09-07 |
| OCLC number | 778451991 |
| CONTENTdm number | 2205 |
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| Title | ifpridp00993 13 |
| Access Rights | Open Access |
| Requests | mailto:ifpri-library@cgiar.org |
| CONTENTdm file name | 2178.pdfpage |
| Date cataloged | 2011-06-15 |
| Date modified | 2011-06-15 |
| CONTENTdm number | 2177 |
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