Water Productivity in Rainfed Agriculture: Unesco-Ihe PhD Thesis

ISBN-13: 9781138474598 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017

Hodson Makurira

Opis

The challenge of water scarcity as a result of insufficient seasonal rainfall and dry spell occurrences during cropping seasons is compounded by inefficient agricultural practices by smallholder farmers where insignificant soil and water conservation efforts are applied.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. Rainfed Agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa  3. The Study Area  4. Research Sites and Observation Techniques  5. Water Partitioning Analysis using Modelling Techniques  6. Productivity Analysis  7. Synthesis of the Research  8. Conclusions

O autorze

Hodson Makurira obtained his BSc in Civil Engineering from the University of Zimbabwe and his MSc from the International Institute for Infrastructural, Hydraulic and Environmental Engineering (now UNESCO-IHE) in Delft, The Netherlands. He worked as a water resources engineer for the Ministry of Water Resources and Development and for the Zimbabwe National Water Authority. He is currently a lecturer at the University of Zimbabwe and involved in several educational and research development programmes. His subjects of expertise are improving livelihoods for semi-arid rainfed environment communities, mitigation of dry spells on crop productivity and water partitioning processes at field scale and the linking to crop productivity.