Farmer-led irrigation initiatives in Africa - Phil Woodhouse
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This was presented at an event series convened by Manchester Environmental Research Institute to showcase water related research and was part of the ‘Water Research at Manchester - Water and Sustainable Development’ event on the 5th August 2020. Research over the past decade has uncovered evidence of investment of capital and labour by small-scale farmers in many parts of sub-Saharan Africa. This phenomenon in some cases leverages support from government agencies, but in many cases does not. It involves use of a range of different water management technologies and is primarily oriented to supply growing urban food markets. The SAFI project aimed to investigate the potential for this 'farmer-led' irrigation development to drive broad-based economic growth in Africa's rural areas. Phil Woodhouse trained in the UK as an agricultural scientist at the universities of Oxford (BA) and Reading (PhD). He worked in Mozambique for eight years for the National Agronomy Research Institute and the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations. After returning to the UK he was based first at the Open University and subsequently at Manchester University, where he is currently Professor of Environment and Development in the Global Development Institute. He has undertaken field studies in a number of countries in Francophone West Africa, southern Africa, and East Africa. He co-authored African Enclosures: the social dynamics of wetlands in drylands (James Currey, 2000), Water and Development (Routledge, 2011) and Valuing Development, Environment and Conservation: Creating Values that Matter (Routledge, 2018). He was principal investigator on the international collaborative project Studying African Farmer-led Irrigation (SAFI) funded by DFID-ESRC (DEGRP).
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