Feeding Africa: How small-scale irrigation can help farmers to change the game (The Conversation)

The importance of small-scale irrigation to farmers and its numerous benefits, including increasing agricultural productivity and incomes. It can contribute more rapidly to the achievement of national agricultural and development goals compared to large irrigation schemes and can improve nutritional outcomes in several important ways are discussed In an op-ed in The Conversation (United States edition) by senior scientist Elizabeth Bryan and Claudia Ringler, deputy director (EPTD) at IFPRI.  

"Our recent research, drawing on data from Tanzania and Ethiopia, has developed richer evidence of these important linkages between small-scale irrigation, food security, diet quality, and nutrition.”   

Read the entire op-ed that shows the research findings, ways to boost the positive impact of small-scale irrigation and the importance of investment. 

Republished in Phys.org