Agricultural Water Management in Africa

Aidan Senzanje holds a PhD in Agricultural Engineering from Colorado State University (USA) and is currently a Senior Lecturer in the Bioresources Engineering Programme at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa) lecturing in irrigation engineering and soil and water conservation engineering. His research interests are in irrigation technology, agricultural water management and the water-energy-food nexus. He was previously a guest editor for the Journal of Physics and Chemistry of the Earth. Olufunke Cofie works in at the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) in Accra, Ghana.

1. Introduction

SECTION A: Concepts and Overview
2. Agricultural Water Management: an overview of concepts
3. The Status of Agricultural Water Management in Africa: progress, challenges, and opportunities
4. Improving AWM solutions: pathways to enhancing resilience, food, and water security across scales

Section B: Regional case studies - Africa
5. Status of AWM in East Africa
6. Status of AWM in Central Africa
7. Status of AWM in the North Africa
8. Status of AWM in Southern Africa
9. Status of AWM in West Africa

SECTION C: Lessons from the global South
10. South Asia
11. Central Asia and the Middle East
12. Latin America
13. Indian sub-continent

SECTION D: Cross-cutting issues
14. Relevance of the water-energy-food nexus for improving AWM under climate change
15. Water, climate and disaster risks and sustainable and resilient food systems: the context for IDAWM
16. Circular economy: enhancing the transition to and adoption of unconventional water use for irrigation
17. Perspectives to scaling transformative approaches for food, land and water systems.
18. Gender, youth and social inclusion for AWM

SECTION E: Synthesis, conclusion, and recommendations
19. What does the future of AWM in Africa look like under climate change?