Produced in collaboration with the Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere (CARE), this sourcebook focuses on themes of gender, governance, livestock, and ecosystems to promote water-smart agriculture in East Africa. It details how to best implement integrated water resource management at the community level by building resilience, sustaining landscapes, managing water, conserving soils, and addressing learning and complexity. The articles in this sourcebook have been produced through a writeshop process which brought together national scientists, development workers and academics to document their own experiences.
Preface
Chapter 1: Building Resilience
- Climate Change, Water, and Food Security
- Mitigation and Adaption Options in Relation to the Millennium Development Goals
- Vulnerabilities of Key Agriculture Sectors to Climate Change
- Ecosystem Services and Resilience
- Vulnerability Assessment Methodologies for Adapting African Agriculture to Climate Change
- Farm-scale Management Practices to Improve Productivity and Resilience
- Improving Water Productivity and Efficiency
- The Relevance of Small-scale Irrigation in the Pastoral Regions of the Horn of Africa
- Impacts of Climate Change, Variability and Adaptation Strategies: The Case of Manyoni District in Singida Region, Tanzania
- Climate Change Impacts on Freshwater Resources and Water-dependent Services
- Building Community Resilience to Climate Change through Water-Smart Agriculture
- Water-Smart Agriculture through Adoption of Drought-tolerant Crops
- Use of Drought-tolerant Crops as a Strategy for Efficient Use of Available Water: Sorghum in Same, Tanzania
- Improving Livestock Water Productivity: Lessons from the Nile River Basin
- Improving Water Productivity in Crop-livestock Systems of Drought-prone Regions
Chapter 2: Sustaining Landscapes
- Improving Land and Water Management
- Thirty Years' Learning to Improve Rainwater and Land Management in the Blue Nile Basin of Ethiopia
- Participatory Community-based Gully Rehabilitation of the Ethiopian Highlands: The Case of Birr Watershed
- The Impact of Large-scale Government-led Soil and Water Conservation on Runoff and Soil Loss in the Debre Mawi Watershed
- Participatory Watershed Management as the Driving Force for Sustainable Livelihood Change in the Community: The Case of Abreha we Atsebeha
- Improving Food Security by Using Tied Ridges in the Semiarid Areas of Northern Tanzania
- The Role of Sustainable Land Use Management to Achieve Effective Water Use
Chapter 3: Managing Water
- Flexible Water Storage Options and Adaptation to Climate Change
- Some Interventions for Managing Water for Agriculture in Eastern and Southern Africa
- Microcatchment Rainwater Harvesting
- Economic Benefits of Rainwater Harvesting Technologies to Farmers: Evidence from Minjar Shenkora District of Amhara Region
- Exploring the Potential of Micro-irrigation in Promoting Food and Income: The Case of Nakasongola
- Water Resource Management Options for Smallholder Farming Systems in sub-Saharan Africa
- Application of Gravity-drip Irrigation Technology for Vegetable Production
- Water-harvesting Technology Using Micro Dams: A Case Study of Same District, Tanzania
- Low-cost Drip Irrigation Systems for Smallholder Farmers in Tanzania
- Exploring Groundwater Sources for Sustainable Smallholder Agricultural Production in Northern Uganda: The Case of Agago District
Chapter 4: Conserving Soils
- Economic Incentives for Soil Conservation in East African Countries
- Intensive Cultivation and Environment Use among the Matengo in Tanzania
- Soil and Water Conservation Technologies in the Upper Rwizi Microcatchment of Southwestern Uganda
- Bench Terrace Construction: Ensuring Sustainable Land Management and Creating a Source of Income for the Youth
- Integrated Soil and Water Conservation through the Use of Stone Bunds, Percolation Pits, and Trenches in Rwambu Wetland Catchment Area
- Water-Smart Agriculture through Integrated Soil and Water Management: The Uganda Experience
- An Assessment of the Cost Effectiveness of Soil and Water Conservation Techniques in Otuke District, Uganda
- Reversing the Negative Impact of Excess Water on Smallholder Farming
- Arashogel: A Simple Oxen-drawn Tillage Implement for Soil and Water Conservation
- Evidence-based Soil Conservation Measures that Improve Soil Physical and Chemical Properties and Barley Yield
- Soil and Water Conservation Practices and their Potential for Outscaling in Semiarid Areas of Tanzania
- Hillside Conservation Agriculture for Improving Land and Water Productivity in Tanzania
- Evaluating Permanent Planting Basins to Optimize Plant Populations of Maize and Beans
Chapter 5: Addressing Learning and Complexity 
- Gender Aspects of Small-scale Private Irrigation in sub-Saharan Africa
- Putting Gender on the Map: Methods for Mapping Gendered Farm Management Systems in sub-Saharan Africa
- Using Gender Mapping and Analysis to Boost Benefits from Agricultural Water Management Projects and Investments
- Participatory Screening and Evaluation of Agricultural and Natural Resource Management Technologies
- Using the Learning and Practice Alliance Model to Promote Water-Smart Agricultural Technologies in Otuke District
- Role of Collective Action and Policy Options in Fostering Participation in Natural Resource Management
- Do-No-Harm Approach: Lessons from Water Development across the Afar/Amhara Regional Border
- Application of a Farmer-expert Joint Learning Approach to Improve Soil Conservation: The Cases of Angereb and Enkulal Watersheds, Lake Tana Sub-basin
- Addressing Water Access Problems in Dera District through the Learning and Practice Alliance Approach
- Socioeconomic Barriers to Adoption and Scaling-out of Water-Smart Agriculture in Tanzania
- Policy and Institutional Framework: Implications in Support of Effective and Efficient Use of Water Resources
Appendix
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Water-smart agriculture in East Africa
Nicol, A.; Langan, S.; Victor, M.; Gonsalves, J. (Eds.) 2015. Water-smart agriculture in East Africa. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE); Kampala, Uganda: Global Water Initiative East Africa (GWI EA).
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