-scale irrigation schemes, using data from Uganda, Mozambique, Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, and Senegal. The authors find that adequate … irrigation, chemical fertilizer, and labor inputs are the key to high productivity. Chemical fertilizer is expensive in Uganda … between fertilizer and irrigation. Meanwhile, in the schemes located in four countries in West Africa's Sahel region, where …

-scale irrigation schemes, using data from Uganda, Mozambique, Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, and Senegal. The authors find that adequate … irrigation, chemical fertilizer, and labor inputs are the key to high productivity. Chemical fertilizer is expensive in Uganda … between fertilizer and irrigation. Meanwhile, in the schemes located in four countries in West Africa's Sahel region, where …

In Sub-Saharan Africa, rainfall is highly variable and, in many places, plainly in sufficient. Although irrigation has … benefit most-and of the technologies best suited to those locations. One purpose of this study of irrigation in 24 countries …, undertaken as part of the Africa infrastructure country diagnostic, is to identify agricultural areas, where irrigation …

is land that could become productive through small-scale irrigation using basic technology to draw on small …. Small-scale irrigation can increase agricultural productivity and production, thus contributing to economic growth in rural … important in light of the ongoing food crisis, and especially in Africa. Expanding the use of small-scale irrigation requires …

such as sowing date and irrigation, generally requires substantial investments, in particular the quantification at large … nitrogen fertilization rate, b) adjustment of sowing date, c) implementation of new cultivars, and d) supplementary irrigation … whereas the changes in sowing dates (Ghana and Malawi) and the irrigation (Ethiopia) package were used in specific countries …