Climate change poses challenges that negatively affect smallholder farmers' contribution to
food security in sub-Saharan Africa. Consequently, countries from this region have the …

Farmer‐led irrigation development (FLID) is a process where individual farmers play a
driving role in configuring agricultural technology practices, crop‐specific market linkages …

Background Dry spells are serious obstacles to rainfed agriculture in Sahelian countries.
Various water harvesting techniques are used by farmers to reduce the impact of climate …

In the eastern rainforests of Madagascar, rainfed swidden rice cultivation remains prevalent
despite efforts to encourage uptake of irrigated systems to reduce deforestation. We used …

An inadequate understanding of the impacts of adaptation countermeasures tends to
exaggerate the adverse effects of climate change on agricultural systems. Motivated by …

Governments in countries in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) are keen to expand irrigation to
improve food security and are placing particular emphasis on adoption and use of …

Farmer-led irrigation is valued for its resilience and ability to cope with shocks and benefit
from opportunities. Yet, typologies of farmer-led irrigation are mostly static categorisations …

In theory, irrigation could affect farm households' nutritional status in either direction. On the
one hand, irrigation may improve nutritional status by boosting farm productivity and …

Climate change seriously threatens the ability to achieve the Sustainable Development
Goals (SDGs) in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), particularly food security goals for poor rural …

Much has been said about large-scale and pump irrigation systems but not much published
research is available on small-scale farmer-led irrigation systems supporting highland …