Smallholder irrigation projects have identified as spring boards towards development and sustainable livelihoods in the semi-arid regions. Decreasing water resources constitutes one of the most pressing challenges facing the smallholder irrigation development. While existing research on smallholder irrigation has concentrated mostly on technical, management and socio-economic performance of the schemes, little has has been done to analyse effects of river flow variabilities on crop productivity. This book, therefore presents results of a study conducted to investigate the effects of river...

Surface and groundwater resources play a pivotal role in the socio-economic development of every nation. Availability of water, its quantity and quality are still major challenges in most rural areas of developing countries. Most people in rural areas use untreated borehole water for domestic purposes. Most of these boreholes broke up a few years after installation, thus causing people to use unprotected water from wells and creating a health risk. Water quality monitoring from wells and boreholes has been lacking in most rural areas of Zimbabwe. Data on the quality of water from these...