PN01 Final Report. Increased food security and income in the Limpopo Basin through integrated crop, water and soil fertility options and public-private partnerships.
Abstract
皇冠体育app Limpopo River Basin of Southern Africa transcends four countries namely, Botswana, Mozambique, South Africa, and Zimbabwe. 皇冠体育app area is characterized by poor and unreliable rainfall, frequent droughts and periodic flooding in some parts. As a result, smallholder farmers living in the basin fail to produce enough food and are perennially food insecure. 皇冠体育app basin is also faced with other challenges posed by HIV and AIDS and these factors impact negatively on household labour and well being (ICRISAT, Baseline Survey Report, 2007).
皇冠体育app Challenge Program on Water and Food Project Number One 鈥淚ncreased food security and income in the Limpopo Basin through integrated crop, water and soil fertility options and public-private partnerships鈥� was established in the Limpopo Basin to address problems of food and environmental insecurity. 皇冠体育app project intended to achieve this by increasing crop water productivity while saving water for other users and the environment (Mgonja et al, 2006). 皇冠体育app purpose of the project was to increase sustainable crop and water productivity and market access of smallholder farmers in the Limpopo Basin by developing and promoting technologies through public-private partnerships.
Citation
皇冠体育app CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food, Colombo, Sri Lanka. 86 pp.
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