Ersado looks at the feasibility and potential of instituting small-scale irrigation dams to reduce Ethiopia … implications of irrigation development programs and provides empirical evidence from microdam construction and reforestation … projects in northern Ethiopia. The author pays particular attention to health-related costs of establishing small …

evaluation of a watershed level SLM program promoted in Amhara regional state of Ethiopia. A household survey was conducted in …. Households in SLM-supported learning watersheds have more access to groundwater for irrigation and have higher crop yields for …

Investments in irrigation systems have been shown to substantially improve farmers’ productivity, and thus alleviate … poverty. This study provides an example of such an investment: the Participatory Small-Scale Irrigation Development Programme …. The project institutionalized water user associations, developed small-scale irrigation schemes, and provided agricultural …

irrigation. Using two case studies from Oromia and Tigray National Regional States in Ethiopia and comparing different … theoretical approaches, this article aims to analyse the institutional aspects of communal irrigation through the concept of … institutions themselves. I argue that communal irrigation needs to consider the importance of power relations and processes of …

efficient irrigation water use improvement. Use for this purpose total of 300 HHs was selected using the Multi-stage sampling … probit model was applied to estimate households’ mean willingness to pay and its determinant’s for efficient irrigation water … the household head, irrigation farm size, extension service significantly affected households’ WTP in both initial and …

Small scale irrigation has multi-dimensional effects on the livelihood development of the rural people in Ethiopia …. Thus, the main objective of this study was to examine the impact of small-scale irrigation on farmers’ livelihood. A … employed to identify the determinant of small-scale irrigation participation and its impact on farmers’ livelihood respectively …

have resulted in serious poverty. Irrigation farming is increasing been used as a strategy in Ethiopia. However, lack of … survey of 315; 165 irrigation users and 151 non-users smallholder farmers in Asiyta district, Ethiopia used for the analysis …Ethiopia’s agriculture is dominated by small-scale rain-fed production in combinations of natural and manmade factors …