Smallholder Irrigation as a Poverty Alleviation Tool in Sub-Saharan Africa

By Jennifer Burney, Rosamond L. Naylor. 2012

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Pollution

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Small private irrigation: A thriving but overlooked sector (2014, background): “Small private irrigation has a positive impact on farmer cash income and is often promoted as a tool for poverty alleviation (Polak and Yoder, 2006; Burney and Naylor, 2012).”
Integrated crop water management might sustainably halve the global food gap (2016, methodology): “agriculture in an integrated landscape approach (Faurès et al 2007, Rockström et al 2007). Jägermeyr et al (2015) show that technical irrigation saving”
Climate change, food security, and livelihoods in sub-Saharan Africa (2016, background): “The focus of household-level food security research is to study the strategies used by people to achieve food security, whether it be migration (Karamba et al. 2011), income diversification (Babatunde and Qaim 2010), or the use of technology (Burney and Naylor 2012), for example.”
Adoption of Small-Scale Irrigation Farming as a Climate-Smart Agriculture Practice and Its Influence on Household Income in the Chinyanja Triangle, Southern Africa (2018, background): “Burney and Naylor [1] defined water access technology as any method of moving water from its source to where it was previously unavailable.”
Linking development to climate adaptation: Leveraging generic and specific capacities to reduce vulnerability to drought in NE Brazil (2016, background): “They also report that irrigation systems implemented with insufficient attention to such issues are often likely to be adopted and successfully utilized by wealthier farmers, reinforcing existing wealth differentials (Burney and Naylor (2011)).”