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Research data: IRRIGATION
2021 Farmer-led institutional innovations in managing smallholder irrigation schemes in KwaZulu-Natal and Eastern Cape Provinces, South Africa
Farmer-led institutional innovations have been touted as the key to improving the management of water resources in irrigation schemes. Howev...
2020 Ensuring access to water for food production by emerging farmers in South Africa: what are the missing ingredients?
One of the key components essential to the productivity of small-scale farmers who secured farms through the land redistribution programme i...
2018 Difficult roads leading to beautiful destinations?: articulating land reform's contribution to rural livelihoods in the Limpopo province, South Africa
A key objective of the land reforms in South Africa was for the process to lead to the emergence of a cohort of black small-scale commercial...
1992 Impact of public investment on small-scale irrigation and the welfare of farmer households in the Saline Zone in West Bengal, India: Application of PSM
Irrigation plays an important role in improving smallholder agricultural production and/or productivity, household food security and rural p...