Water for Agriculture

Water for agriculture

 

 

© 2014 Thierry Umbehr / SDC

For improving the efficiency of water in food production, SDC focusses on:

  • Increasing access to agricultural water productivity and efficiency by providing access to low-cost and efficient techniques (e.g. drip and sprinkler irrigation) and by up-scaling such approaches through sustainable business models.

  • Increased access to funding for smallholders for productive water use systems through the support of microfinance institutions.

  • Increasing access to improved agricultural water management through building/ rehabilitation of irrigation schemes, taking into account various issues such as energy, land, training of farmers.

  • Mainstreaming of state-of-the-art agricultural water management for both rain-fed and irrigated agriculture in national and international policy processes (CAADP).

  • Increasing recovery & reuse through the support of entrepreneurs to adopt viable business models to reuse wastewater, grey water and excreta

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