Critical development challenges in Africa:

Reduce poverty
Achieve food security through increased land and water productivity

 

 

Big benefits from improved water use in agriculture

  • Reduces crop failure risks faced by  farmers and communities
  • Allows farmers to diversify and grow high-value crops
  • Improves investment benefits from seed and fertilizer
  • Contributes to increased agricultural productivity and  economic growth
  • Increases the food safety and human health
  • Improves  food and nutrition security and income of smallholder farmers and communities

IWMI shares the vision of the African Union
An Africa free from hunger and poverty

 


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