The institute Sustainable and Resilient Food Production Systems works locally and internationally, bridging the water International Water Management Institute (IWMI) and agriculture communities and worlds of small- and Regassa Namara large-holder farmers to deliver innovative solutions to Senior Water Resources Economist this complex global challenge. [...] Recognizing this, many improvement, and/or expansion of irrigated of the organizations mentioned, as well as increasing agriculture -- and influence the location, purpose numbers of governments and other agencies are and design of irrigation development through exploring the opportunities to support farmer-led small-scale, on-farm, locally relevant, and market- initiatives2, which have the potenti. [...] designing and implementing supportive policies; promoting effective governance and institutional Beyond the basic needs of a sustainable water resource arrangements; and implementing appropriate long- and other aspects of an enabling environment, farmers term investment programs to enable the policies and need access to financial services or other means, institutions to work. [...] investments in farmer-led irrigation expansion provide holistic program support: for example, a portion of the The few well documented positive examples of available funds could be used to strengthen supply sustainable aquifer management and reduction of non- 14 Volta Irrigation’s model provides loans to farmers for inputs and bicycle-powered irrigation units and then charges a share of the harves. [...] But even in the USA, over-pumping of aquifers and surface water resources, and people’s aquifers and agricultural pollution of waterways is interdependence on them; and supporting the challenging.
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