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Irrigation
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Growing rice needs more than soil and water
Research in West Africa finds that smallholder farmers are not benefiting enough from investments in irrigation because they are not getting access to the agriculture services they need
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New website focuses on dams and family farming in West Africa
A website has been launched that focuses on large dams, irrigated agriculture, land tenure and family farming in West Africa: www.gwiwestafrica.org
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Dams in Africa: Combining national and local development
The economics and distribution of development benefits of large dams continue to be a source of controversy. Every dam is different, and efforts to generalise from a few (often well known, but sometimes exceptional) examples continue to cause challenges in reaching common ground on the past development contribution of the 50,000 dams worldwide today and the need for more
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Niger hosts forum on securing land rights in irrigated areas
On 7-8 May, in the town of Konni, Niger's Minister of Agriculture will chair a national forum on legal protection of land tenure in irrigated areas. The forum will be attended by representatives from government, regional and local authorities, local groups, the private sector and civil society
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Is this a climate change issue or a human rights issue?
We had been driven for seven hours from Dhaka through hair-raising traffic to see some of the practical approaches that Caritas was using in th
