May 15 in Side Event "Improving Resilience by Strengthening Capacities for Integrated Water Resource Management in Landscaped". Presented by Dr. Stephan Krall, GIZ.
Operations Management - Book1.p - Dr. Abdulfatah A. Salem
Good practices in small scale irrigation
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Good Practices in
Small-Scale Irrigation
Dr. Stephan Krall, GIZ
Project Support to the National Small-
Scale Irrigation Programme (PASSIP),
Mali
Sector Project Sustainable Agriculture
IFPRI 2020 Conference
Building Resilience for Food and
Nutrition Security
Addis Ababa, 15-17 May 2014
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Time since first application (maturity)
Extent of application (acceptance)
Significant positive impacts
(effectiveness)
Sustainability
Unit cost and economic benefit
(efficiency)
Our selection criteria for good practices
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Planing : 6
Engineering pratices : 9
Agronomic pratices : 20
Processing and marketing : 9
Total of good practices: 44
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• Planing
• Participatory planing of small scale irrigation schemes.
• Use of satellite images and GPS for designing irrrigation
schemes.
• Engineering practices
• Different types of dams
• Agronomic practices
• System of rice intensification (SRI)
• Processing / Marketing
• Storage of perishable products
• Organizing farmer marketing groups
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Example
Rehabilitating natural water inlets to flood
bassins (IFAD)
Discharge of Niger
varies strongly with a
declining tendency
Former flood basins
in the Niger delta
have fallen dry
or water retreats too
early for agricultural
use
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Excavating natural influents
to allow Niger water to
supply water to the basins
Construction of weirs to
control return flow from
basins and avoid
uncontrolled flooding
Negotiation of use rights
and obligations with users
Creation of a farmer
committee for managing
each basin
Method
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Reclamation and extension
of crop land and pastures
Higher yields and
production
Diversification of diets and
increase of income
Strengthening resilience
through stable yields, higher
food security and income
Raised groundwater levels
and eco-system benefits
Impacts
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Six basins restored
with 33.000 ha
Beneficiaries:
190.000 persons
Average cost: 450
€ / ha
35 % cost shared
by beneficiaries (in
kind contributions)
Implementation and costs
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Contributing organisations
Ministry of Agriculture Mali
Projects of different agencies:
GIZ, KfW, IFAD, USAID, Helvetas-Intercooperation,
Canadian Cooperation
Organisations and firms:
Afrique Verte, Bornefonden, CES Consulting
Engineers Salzgitter, AHT Group
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