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Reports & Research
December, 2016
South Africa, Kenya, Botswana, Sub-Saharan Africa
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Journal Articles & BooksDecember, 2016TanzaniaThis paper focuses on the application of the concept of Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) in Tanzania. It asks: how did IWRM affect the rural and fast-growing majority of smallholder farmers' access to water which contributes directly to poverty alleviation and employment creation in a country where poverty and joblessness are high?
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2016Tanzania
In Tanzania like in other parts of the global South, in the name of 'development' and 'poverty eradication' vast tracts of land have been earmarked by the government to be developed by investors for different commercial agricultural projects, giving rise to the contested land grab phenomenon. In parallel, Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) has been promoted in the country and globally as the governance framework that seeks to manage water resources in an efficient, equitable and sustainable manner.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2016Tanzania
In Tanzania like in other parts of the global South, in the name of 'development' and 'poverty eradication' vast tracts of land have been earmarked by the government to be developed by investors for different commercial agricultural projects, giving rise to the contested land grab phenomenon. In parallel, Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) has been promoted in the country and globally as the governance framework that seeks to manage water resources in an efficient, equitable and sustainable manner.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2016Tanzania
This paper focuses on the application of the concept of Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) in Tanzania. It asks: how did IWRM affect the rural and fast-growing majority of smallholder farmers' access to water which contributes directly to poverty alleviation and employment creation in a country where poverty and joblessness are high?
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Policy Papers & BriefsJanuary, 2016KenyaMatters of environmental migration are frequently looked at from a humanitarian perspective.1 This policy brief will instead look at it with a lens focusing on land issues. The question of environmental migration is inevitably linked to the question of land for several reasons. First, climate and environmental change trigger and accelerate the loss of land due to sea-level rise, coastal erosion, landslides and other forms of land degradation.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksFebruary, 2016France, United States of America, Belize, Mali, China, Indonesia, Australia, Canada, Ethiopia, Pakistan, Niger, Thailand, New Zealand, Jordan, Japan, South Africa, Singapore, Spain, Ecuador, Tunisia, India
The purpose of this paper is examine the notion of tenure in connection with water resources and to explore whether the concept of water tenure has the potential to make a useful contribution towards resolving the world’s water resources challenges. It seeks to provide answers to the following questions: (a) What is water tenure? (b) Does water tenure really exist or is water simply too different from other natural resources? (c) Could the concept of water tenure be useful in terms of the development of natural resources policies and practices?
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Reports & ResearchMarch, 2016MalawiAn analysis of water user associations on the implications for the transfer of irrigation management on land and water rights in Malawi
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Library ResourceMultimediaMarch, 2016Malawi
An analysis of water user associations on the implications for the transfer of irrigation management on land and water rights in Malawi
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March, 2016TanzaniaIn the past decade, Tanzania has
experienced high economic growth and it is in the global
limelight as a recent success story in Africa. A variety of
factors have contributed to this success, including
liberalized policies and reforms, infusion of external
capital from development partners and the private sector,
debt cancellation, and a strong performance by emerging
sectors such as mining, tourism, and fisheries. Its social
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