Blogs
Customary water tenure: How can recognition and protection be improved?
New research identifies legal pathways for better recognition and protection of customary water tenure in sub-Saharan Africa as well as concrete solutions to improve current water law and water infrastructure development programs.
Blogs
Water for whom? Realizing contemporary water allocation through age-old customary tenure practices
Ultimately, rights-based water resource allocation may appear to be the most effective to address legal pluralism for poverty alleviation and broad-based agricultural growth.
Blogs
How hybrid water law can transform water access in southern Africa
In rural southern Africa, hybrid water law is a tool for social justice and environmental stewardship.
In the media
TheConversation: Food security in Africa depends on rethinking outdated water law
A new study has found that outdated, colonial-era water permit systems across Africa are unintentionally criminalising millions of small farmers who can’t obtain permits. This undermines efforts to boost farming production and meet economic growth goals.
In the media
ReachWater.org.uk: Toward a hybrid approach to water law in Africa
The water rights of up to 100 million African farmers are threatened by laws rooted in colonial times, according to a recent study.
Blogs
7th Africa Water Week
“Decolonizing” formal water law to pave the way for smallholder irrigation