Browsing Journals by Subject "Irrigation"
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Controlling the farmer: colonial and postcolonial irrigation interventions in Africa
(2008)Aiming at full control over farmer actions was a shared characteristic of colonial irrigation engineering approaches. However, the way control was sought in African irrigation projects was different from Asian colonies. ... -
Erratum: vulnerability of Southern Afar pastoralists to climate variability and change, Ethiopia
(OASIS, 2019)The present study was carried out in the Southern Afar region in Ethiopia to assess the vulnerability of pastoral communities to climate change and variability. A household questionnaire survey was employed to collect data ... -
The Gowe Irrigation co-operative society and its role in Sanyati (Zimbabwe), 1967-1969
(2007)The paper focuses on the origins and development of agricultural co-operative societies in Zimbabwe since 1954 with particular reference to Gowe-Sanyati and evaluates their role in facilitating the channelling of production ... -
Views on unlawful water abstractions along the Liebenbergsvlei River, South Africa
(2010)As a result of the growing demand for additional water supplies, officials at the National Department of Water Affairs (DWA) continually monitor consumption patterns. The unlawful abstraction of water for irrigation ... -
Water and the human culture of appropriation: the Vaal River up to 1956
(2006)There is discernable evidence of the human presence having historically appropriated the 1300 kilometer long Vaal River of South Africa as it extends itself from the Drakensberg Plateau into the arid Karoo region. This ... -
White settlement and irrigation schemes: CF Rigg and the founding of Bonnievale in the Breede River Valley, 1900-c.1953.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2013)The idea to initiate irrigation development as part of a white colonisation scheme and a political movement to settle Britons on land in South Africa dates back to the culmination of British imperialism in the late ...
