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Many smallholder farmers, especially women and other marginalized groups, face difficulty in accessing loans and other forms of credit.
Smallholder irrigation technology diffusion in Ghana: Insights from stakeholder mapping
Irrigated agriculture can support food and nutrition security, increase rural employment and incomes and can act as a buffer against growing climate variability and change.
Targeting small-scale irrigation investments using agent-based modeling: Case studies in Mali and Niger
Small-scale irrigation has been identified as a potential adaptation strategy for climate change and boosting food security and livelihoods in dry regions.
Agriculture and youth in Nigeria: Aspirations, challenges, constraints, and resilience
Nigeria’s rural youth are facing various challenges in agriculture, with limited job opportunities outside the sector.
Drivers of adoption of small-scale irrigation in Mali and its impacts on nutrition across sex of irrigators
Irrigation is an important strategy to increase agricultural productivity, improve nutrition security and reduce climate-related risks in rural Africa, but adoption of this technology has been low.
What does empowerment mean to women in northern Ghana? Insights from research around a small-scale irrigation intervention
Women’s empowerment is important to improve the status of women and achieve greater gender equity. It is also an important vehicle for achieving other development goals related to food security, nutrition, health, and economic growth.
Irrigation-nutrition linkages: Evidence from northern Ghana
We analyze the linkages between irrigation and nutrition using data from irrigators and non-irrigators in Northern Ghana.
Understanding the nature of small-scale private irrigation systems in countries like Nigeria is important. This survey provides relevant information from farmers using irrigation to cultivate four major crops, rice, maize, pepper, and okra.
The baseline survey data were collected in Ethiopia (November 2014 – December 2014), Tanzania (June 2015 – July 2015), and Ghana (November 2015 – February 2016) as part of the five-year Feed the Future Innovation Laboratory for Small-Scale Irrigat
Gender parity and inorganic fertilizer technology adoption in farm households: Evidence from Niger
This study seeks to address the gap in understanding the role of gender parity in inorganic fertiliser technology adoption in Niger.
What happens after technology adoption? Gendered aspects of small-scale irrigation technologies in Ethiopia, Ghana, and Tanzania
Drawing on qualitative data from Ethiopia, Ghana, and Tanzania, this paper develops a framework for examining the intrahousehold distribution of benefits from technology adoption, focusing on small-scale irrigation technologies.
Integrating gender into small-scale irrigation
Small-Scale Irrigation (SSI) interventions, like other development interventions, need to take into account men’s and women’s context-specific roles in agriculture and their related gender-based preferences and challenges.
What happens after technology adoption? Gendered aspects of small-scale irrigation technologies inEthiopia, Ghana, and Tanzania
This paper complements the gender and technology adoption literature by shifting attention to what happens after adoption of a technology.