The suitability of domestic roof harvested rainwater as source of irrigation ...
Focusing on the underserved? - Fenny Adeline Zandgrond, Senior Journalist, Ware Tijd, Suriname
1. ‘THEME 1: WATER AVAILABILITY AND ACCESS
FOCUSING ON THE UNDERSERVED?’
REGION SOUTH, SURINAME
BY: FENNY-ADELINE ZANDGROND
JOURNALIST; FENNYVD@YAHOO.COM / F.ZANDGROND@DWT.NET
Introduction: Results:
Maroons & indigenous people Investments in drainage works and
o 20%/100.000 of population other irrigation projects for
o Live in tribal communities improved agricultural production
o 60% women
Investeringen in ontwateringswerken in 2009 in
o Mostly illiterate 2000
US$
1.829
o Still depend on own grown 1800
1600
Suriname 1400
1200
1000
o Caribbean; 16,5 mln ha. 800
600
346
o Agr. Production; 43,000 ha. 400
200
225
0
o Appr. 40,653 in coastal area and 0
Regio West Regio Centrum Regio Oost Regio Zuid
(binnenland)
2,460 in interior
Constrains: Available funds 2009 in US$:
No investment in irrigation/ Donor funds; 7 mln or 22%
drainage canals realization
No legal title on the land National budget: 1,5 mln or 38%
Ad hoc government initiatives realization
Outdated farming techniques Sector fund for interior; 262.000
Shifting cultivation or 28% realization
Scare water is far from plots
Competition with high water Allocation Agr. Sector Funds
project 'Agrarische Ontwikkeling Binnenland'
consuming gold sector 300 262
Traditional barriers 250
x US$1.000
200 166 175 Alloc.
150 Investment
No access to credit funds 100
50 19 4
74 Realization in %
11% 2% 28%
High under -investment of uneven 0
2007 2008 2009
spread funds Source : Ye arbook: MinLVV
Conclusions:
Strengthening government spending capacity in agriculture
Involve more experts descendants from villages in the
modernization of production methods in the territory to
overcome social/traditional barriers
