Essays about: "irrigation Tanzania"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 15 essays containing the words irrigation Tanzania.

1. 11. Factors conditioning the distribution of fresh water pulmonates, Biomphalaria spp., Bulinus spp., and Lymnea spp., in Babati District, Tanzania.

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   Author : Anna Lydig; [2009]
   Keywords : snail distribution; Pulmonata; chemical factors; biological factors; Babati; Tanzania;

   Abstract : The aim of this essay was to investigate if different variables affected the distribution of fresh water pulmonate in Babati District, Tanzania. Can the absence of intermediate host be explained by basic vegetation evaluation, pH, conductivity and temperature? Or can it be explained by other factors as animals and vegetation in the surrounding? The study was carried out in Babati District, in Lake Babati, Kiongozi/Farahani River and the irrigation schemes in Matufa and Gichameda from the 23td of February until 7th of March, 2009. READ MORE

3. 12. Kiru Valley Complexity : A case study over consequences of and causes to conflicts over irrigation water in Tanzania

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   Author : Samy Said; [2008]
   Keywords : International Fund for Agricultural Development IFAD ; irrigation system; water scarcity; Babati District; wealth rankings; Africa;

   Abstract : Inequalities among different power groups are getting obvious in Kiru Valley, Tanzania mainly due to water scarcity. This paper aims to examine, by a case study, the increasing competition over irrigation water among Kiru Valley farmers in relation to socio-economic stratification. READ MORE

4. 13. Water Availability and Distribution in Africa : Effects of the IFAD irrigation scheme in Kiru Valley, Tanzania

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   Author : Anna Ericsson; [2007]
   Keywords : Water conflicts; common-pool resources; Kiru Valley; IFAD poverty reduction strategy programme;

   Abstract : The case study was made in the area of Kiru Valley, Tanzania, in order to study the conflicts over the water in the river Dodumera, and also to understand how the villages Mawemairo, Matufa and Mapea have been affected by the construction of the IFAD irrigation scheme. The aim was to connect the conflicts in the area with a general view of how water can create such conflicts. READ MORE

5. 14. Irrigation in Africa : Water conflicts between large-scale and small-scale farmers in Tanzania, Kiru Valley

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   Author : Samy Said; [2006]
   Keywords : Common-pool resources; water decline; Babati district and water management;

   Abstract : This paper deals with relationship between irrigation and agriculture and conflicts within an irrigation system and as well between other stakeholders concerning the water. Irrigated lands are up to 2.5 times more productive compared to rain-fed agriculture. READ MORE

6. 15. Rusumo dam-social challenge in Kagera River Basin : Participation of the affected people

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   Author : Lazare Nzeyimana; [2003]
   Keywords : World Commission on Dams; dam management; affected people; stakeholders’ participation; information access; communication platforms scenario; land issue in Rwanda; poverty; social and environmental impacts;

   Abstract : From long ago, rivers have always sustained livelihoods of the peoples through the utilisation of different natural resources available in the basin. All over the world, many rivers have been dammed in the spirit of performing various purposes: agricultural irrigation, domestic water supply and power generation or flood control. READ MORE