IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/taf/cijwxx/v41y2025i2p325-349.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Climate change adaptation benefits from rejuvenated irrigation systems at Kiwere and Magozi schemes in Tanzania

Author

Listed:
  • Makarius Mdemu
  • Luitfred Kissoly
  • Emmanuel Kimaro
  • Henning Bjornlund
  • Peter Ramshaw
  • Jamie Pittock
  • Michael Wellington
  • Sophia Bongole

Abstract

We examine whether soil moisture and nutrient monitoring tools and Agricultural Innovation Platforms improve farmers adaptive capacity to climate change in the context of two small-scale irrigation schemes in Tanzania. Analysis of household surveys and farmer field books show that these interventions have significantly increased household income and diversification and reduced water use and conflicts. This has contributed to rejuvenating the schemes and increased the willingness to collaborate. Farmers within these schemes report less COVID-19 impact than farmers within surrounding schemes. We argue that the interventions have increased farmers’, and their communities’, resilience and capacity to adapt to climate change.

Suggested Citation

  • Makarius Mdemu & Luitfred Kissoly & Emmanuel Kimaro & Henning Bjornlund & Peter Ramshaw & Jamie Pittock & Michael Wellington & Sophia Bongole, 2025. "Climate change adaptation benefits from rejuvenated irrigation systems at Kiwere and Magozi schemes in Tanzania," International Journal of Water Resources Development, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 41(2), pages 325-349, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:cijwxx:v:41:y:2025:i:2:p:325-349
    DOI: 10.1080/07900627.2024.2397400
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/07900627.2024.2397400
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1080/07900627.2024.2397400?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:taf:cijwxx:v:41:y:2025:i:2:p:325-349. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Chris Longhurst (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.tandfonline.com/cijw20 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.