The Nexus between Irrigation, Nutrition, Health, and Women's Empowerment: Endline

The project explores the impact of small scale irrigation on agricultural productivity, nutrition, and women's empowerment in Northern Ghana. In 2016, we have collected a baseline survey of 800 farmers. In addition, in collaboration with iDE Ghana, we have provided guaranteed credit access for the purchase of irrigation pumps for randomly selected 42 farmer groups (211 farmers) in early treatment villages, and training on integrated pest management for all the 800 farmers. In 2017, we plan to do the endline survey and provide guaranteed credit access for 40 groups in late treatment villages and 40 groups in the early treatment villages that didn't win the random lottery last year.

Another component of this project: Small-scale irrigation and women's empowerment in Northern Ghana, aims to contribute to the evidence base on the gender differences in access to, use of, and control over water technologies and irrigated output in Northern Ghana. Intra-household survey from irrigating and non-irrigating households will be collected from the adult male and female members of the household to compute project-level women's empowerment in agriculture index (Pro-WEAI). The project directly contributes the flagship's and CGIAR's research priorities on gender and inclusive growth.

2019 Note: Includes IWMI contribution on Water Nutrition paper, with 5k of IFPRI"s allocation allocated to IWMI to cover this work. Completed 2019