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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
agricultural and biological sciences
Agricultural water management and poverty linkages
Agricultural Water Management, Volume 97, No. 4, Year 2010
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Water is critically important to the livelihoods of more than 1 billion people living on less than $1 a day, particularly for the 850 million rural poor primarily engaged in agriculture. In many developing countries, water is a major factor constraining agricultural output, and income of the world's rural poor. Improved agricultural water management can contribute to poverty reduction through several pathways. First, access to reliable water improves production and productivity, enhances employment opportunities and stabilizes income and consumption. Secondly, it encourages the utilization of other yield-enhancing inputs and allows diversification into high-value products, enhances nonfarm outputs and employment, and fulfils multiple needs of households. Third, it may contribute either negatively or positively to nutritional status, health, societal equity and environment. The net impact of agricultural water management interventions on poverty may depend individually and/or synergistically on the working of these pathways. Improved access to water is essential, but not sufficient for sustained poverty reduction. Investments are needed in agricultural science and technology, policies and institutions, economic reform, addressing global agricultural trade inequities, etc. But how best to match the agricultural water management technologies, institutions and policies to the needs of the heterogeneous poor living in diverse agro-ecological settings remains unclear. This article provides a menu of promising pathways through which agricultural water management can contribute to sustained poverty reduction. © 2009.
Authors & Co-Authors
Namara, Regassa Ensermu
Ghana, Accra
International Water Management Institute Ghana
Hanjra, Munir A.
Australia, Bathurst
Charles Sturt University
Castillo, Gina E.
Unknown Affiliation
Ravnborg, Helle Munk
Denmark, Copenhagen
Danish Institute for International Studies
Smith, Laurence E.D.
United Kingdom, London
Imperial College London
van Koppen, Barbara
South Africa, Pretoria
International Water Management Institute, Pretoria
Statistics
Citations: 245
Authors: 6
Affiliations: 5
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1016/j.agwat.2009.05.007
ISSN:
03783774
Research Areas
Environmental
Health System And Policy