Jochen Froebrich
Eva Ludi
Sami Bouarfa
Dominique Rollin
Nebo Jovanovic
Maria Roble
Tarek Ajmi
Rami Albasha
Sékou Bah
Haithem Bahri
Gonzalo Barberá
Christy van Beek
Bruno Cheviron
Benson Chishala
Willem de Clercq
Yacouba Coulibaly
Mohammed Dicko
Bandiougou Diawara
Aleksandra Dolinska
Raphaëlle Ducrot
Teklu Erkossa
Sebastiao Famba
Degol Fissahaye
Angel De Miguel Garcia
Solomon Habtu
Salia Hanafi
Julia Harper
Hanneke Heesmans
Jean‐Yves Jamin
Kees van't Klooster
Nathaniel Mason
Jean‐Claude Mailhol
Serge Marlet
Insaf Mekki
Constansia Musvoto
Beatrice Mosello
Alice Mweetwa
Naomi Oates
Elijah Phiri
Ludivine Pradeleix
Erik Querner
Andrei Rozanov
Philippe Ker Rault
Jean‐Emmanuel Rougier
Chizumba Shepande
Maite Sánchez Reparaz
Bréhima Tangara
Joris De Vente
Marlene de Witt
Cai Xueliang
Abdelaziz Zairi
2020-01-30
<p>Boosting the productivity of smallholder farming systems continues to be a major need in Africa. Challenges relating to how to improve irrigation are multi‐factor and multisectoral, and they involve a broad range of actors who must interact to reach decisions collectively. We provide a systematic reflection on findings from the research project EAU4Food, which adopted a transdisciplinary approach to irrigation for food security research in five case studies in Ethiopia, Mali, Mozambique, South Africa and Tunisia. The EAU4Food experiences emphasize that actual innovation at irrigated smallholder farm level remains limited without sufficient improvement of the enabling environment and taking note of the wider political economy environment. Most project partners felt at the end of the project that the transdisciplinary approach has indeed enriched the research process by providing different and multiple insights from actors outside the academic field. Local capacity to facilitate transdisciplinary research and engagement with practitioners was developed and could support the continuation and scaling up of the approach. Future projects may benefit from a longer time frame to allow for deeper exchange of lessons learned among different stakeholders and a dedicated effort to analyse possible improvements of the enabling environment from the beginning of the research process. © 2020 The Authors. Irrigation and Drainage published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of International Commission for Irrigation and Drainage</p>
https://doi.org/10.1002/ird.2400
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transdisciplinary approach, participatory innovation, smallholder farming, irrigation, approche transdisciplinaire, innovation participative, petites exploitations agricoles, irrigation
TRANSDISCIPLINARY INNOVATION IN IRRIGATED SMALLHOLDER AGRICULTURE IN AFRICA
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