Agricultural activities are directly dependent on the availability and quality of natural resources, particularly land and water. While the availability of land has featured strongly in South Africa’s growth and transformation policy agendas, this piece focusses on presenting a more detailed view of the quantity and quality of South Africa’s land resource, and how this impacts the agricultural use and viability of land resources in sustaining South Africa growth objectives.
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Library ResourceDocuments de politique et mémoiresjuin, 2022Afrique du Sud
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Library ResourceArticles et Livresdécembre, 2018Égypte, Soudan, Kenya, République-Unie de Tanzanie, Afrique australe, Afrique du Sud, Nigéria, Mexique, Brésil, Colombie, Équateur, Pérou, États-Unis d'Amérique, Japon, Philippines, Iran, Népal
Agriculture influences and shapes the world’s ecosystems, but not always in a positive way. More than 2.5 billion people are globally involved as stewards of land and water ecosystems that constitute the natural resource base for feeding the current and future world population. Yet, conventional agronomic interventions based on ‘hard’ agricultural engineering compromise various eco-services that are required for sustainable agricultural development.
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Library ResourceArticles et Livresdécembre, 2017Afrique australe
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Library ResourceRapports et recherchesseptembre, 2018République-Unie de Tanzanie, Afrique, Afrique orientale, Afrique australe
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Library ResourceArticles et Livresdécembre, 2016République-Unie de Tanzanie, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Afrique australe
Irrigation development in Sub-Saharan Africa has lagged significantly behind that in other developing countries. Consequently, economic development and food security are also lagging behind. Since the mid-2000s there has been a resurgence in the willingness to invest in irrigation, and Sub-Saharan Africa has the largest potential of any developing region to benefit from it. However, to gain from new investment in irrigation without repeating past failures, it is critical to develop a business model for small-scale irrigation schemes.
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Library Resourceseptembre, 2018République-Unie de Tanzanie, Afrique, Afrique orientale, Afrique australe
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Library ResourceArticles et Livresdécembre, 2018Afrique australe, Afrique, Afrique orientale
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Library ResourceRapports et recherchesdécembre, 2017Afrique du Sud
A survey of 76 public smallholder irrigation schemes in the Limpopo Province was jointly conducted by the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF), South Africa, and the Limpopo Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (LDARD), as part of the ‘Revitalization of Smallholder Irrigation in South Africa’ project.
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Library ResourceRapports et recherchesdécembre, 2017Afrique du Sud
This report summarizes the findings of a collaborative effort to map and assess irrigated areas in the Limpopo Province, South Africa. The study was conducted by the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) in collaboration with the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF) and the Limpopo Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (LDARD), as part of the DAFF-supported ‘Revitalization of irrigation in South Africa’ project.
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Library ResourceArticles et Livresfévrier, 2018Afrique du Sud, Viet Nam, Ghana, Asie, Afrique occidentale, Afrique, Afrique australe, Asia du sud-est
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