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200 00$aWater harvesting in Sub-Saharan Africa /$fedited by William Critchley and John Gowing ; associate editor, Eefke Mollee
210  1$aAbingdon, Oxon ;$aNew York, N.Y. :$cRoutledge,$d2012.
215   $a1 online resource (218 p.)
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
311   $a0-415-53786-X 
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $aCover; Water Harvesting in Sub-Saharan Africa; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Acronyms and abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Water harvesting for crop production in Sub-Saharan Africa: Challenges, concepts and practices; Chapter 3 A review of the recent literature on water harvesting in Sub-Saharan Africa; Chapter 4 Burkina Faso: A cradle of farm-scale technologies; Chapter 5 Ethiopia: Opportunities for building on tradition - time for action; Chapter 6 Kenya: From drought relief to business model
327   $aChapter 7 Niger: Small-scale and simple for sustainabilityChapter 8 Tanzania: Bright spots and barriers to adoption; Chapter 9 Sudan: Ancient traditions receiving a new impetus; Chapter 10 Zimbabwe: Keeping runoff on the land; Chapter 11 Investing in water for agriculture in the drylands of Sub-Saharan Africa: Considerations for a conducive policy environment; Chapter 12 Conclusions, lessons and an agenda for action; Glossary; Index
330   $aAgriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa is constrained by highly variable rainfall, frequent drought and low water productivity. There is an urgent need, heightened by climate change, for appropriate technologies to address this problem through managing and increasing the quantity of water on farmers' fields - water harvesting. This book defines water harvesting as a set of approaches which occupy an intermediate position along the water-management spectrum extending from in situ moisture conservation to irrigated agriculture. They generally comprise small-scale systems that induce, coll
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606   $aWater-supply$zAfrica, Sub-Saharan
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