WATER FLOWS - INCOME GROWS
Profitability Integrating water, livestock and crop
development tripled house-hold Public goods
income. This could not have been • The project increasingly attracts worldwide attention
achieved by any one approach alone. and generates international public goods.
• The Government of Zamfara and Kano states, Nigeria, has
Community Participating farmers’ mean net income Change in adopted the project’s water harvesting technologies.
(US$/year) household • Serves as a case study for the CGIAR’s Challenge Program
Before intervention After intervention income (%) on Water and Food & the Comprehensive Assessment of
Adama 285 1738 + 538 Water Management and Agriculture.
Lume 595 1649 + 203
Arsinegelle 334 1171 + 287
Products
QPM maize and highly valued fruits,
vegetables and dairy products provide
market opportunities and enhance
household nutrition. Manure provides
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fuel and helps maintain soil fertility.
People
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This partnership enabled increased
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ed agricultural production and tripled
income through marketing of cash
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crops and dairying. It resulted in
improved nutrition, health and child
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education and increased employment.
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Water from river diversions drives quality
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protein maize production, a dual purpose
Practices
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food-feed crop. Green maize helps feed
people. Chopped green maize stover is
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Water is the primary factor limiting agricultural production. Water
converted to silage and used for zero
harvesting and river diversion are the catalysts unleashing
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grazed dairy cows.
intensification and diversification of household income.
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Household water harvesting
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Objective: Increase food
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security, reduce poverty,
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improve human health and
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restore the natural resource
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base of Ethiopia’s Rift Valley Community-based river diversion
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dry-lands though new options
in rain-fed agriculture.
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Lume-Adama
Problem & Uta-Wayu
Farmers‘
Poverty, low agricultural Cooperative
production, land and water Federal Democratic Republic Unions
of Ethiopia - Ministry of
degradation, and lack of Agriculture & Rural
domestic water characterizes Development
Ethiopia’s Rift Valley.
EIAR