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Funding a blue revolution!
Company water management already exists
As climate change worsens, and fresh water availability grows more erratic, the food security of small-scale farmers throughout Africa will increasingly depend on their water management abilities. Luckily, the tools for improving water management already exist, writes Danielle Nierenberg, Nourishing the Planet Co-Project director.
But, as a recent report from the Rockefeller Foundation notes, the key to getting these tools to the people who need them the most will be making sure that the funding, donor, and policy-making community understands what they are and why they need more support.
There are many examples of simple and inexpensive ways of improving water management for small-scale farmers and the report highlights a number of them. Increased investment in small holder irrigation, for example, creates greater diversity of water source options, such as small streams, shallow wells, boreholes, and rainwater storage, and gives farmers and small communities’ autonomy over their water sources.
Low technology irrigation methods are also cost-efficient, such as surface irrigation systems like furrows and small basins, pressurised systems such as sprinklers and drip, and water lifting technologies which can be driven by gravity, manual labor, and motorized pumps.
On the ground, there are countless groups working to help farmers improve water management techniques and gain access to improved water management technologies. Many of these organizations will be highlighted in State of the World 2011: Innovations that Nourish the Planet as deserving of more resources and funding from the donor and policy making community in order to alleviate global hunger and poverty.
Water management has improved in Accra, Ghana, in Zambia and in Ethopia!
More information: www.nourishingtheplanet.org
One Response to “Funding a blue revolution!”
ecoadmin says:
It’s especially encouraging that organizations such as the International Water Management Institute, a non-profit making organization are working to improve water and land management in Asia and Africa.