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  1. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    September, 2015
    Senegal

    The Anambé irrigation scheme charter sets out management principles for efficient and sustainable agricultural development. The charter is based on a consensus between river basin users and local authorities. Now the challenge is to put this into practice.

  2. Library Resource
    Conference Papers & Reports
    June, 2014
    Western Africa, Burkina Faso, Guinea, Mali, Niger, Senegal

    This is the Final Communiqué from a regional workshop on the theme: “Towards security of tenure for farmers in large scale irrigated rice schemes in the Sahel” which was held on 2nd and 3rd June 2014 in Bamako, Mali.

  3. Library Resource
    Videos
    February, 2017
    Western Africa

    For a dam to successfully contribute to the sustainable development of the society, the local populations should also benefit from it. This 5 minute video examines the challenges to obtaining an equitable compensation for the people affected by the construction of large dams and defines the various steps to make sure that the farmers who were disowned of their land can have secured access to new land.

  4. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    August, 2015
    Western Africa, Burkina Faso, Mali, Senegal

    Analysis of land allocation strategies in irrigated agriculture schemes in West Africa yields lessons which can guide the design and implementation of current and forthcoming projects. Allocation of insufficient land makes the main purposes of large dam projects – to combat poverty and to increase national cereal production – more difficult to achieve. Research by the Global Water Initiative (GWI) at three dam project sites in West Africa shows that the area of land allocated per family is usually about 1 hectare (ha).

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