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By integrating social, human, physical, financial, and natural factors, the tool evaluates the potential for outscaling three specific technologies—soil water conservation/in situ rainwater harvesting, small-scale private irrigation, and small reservoirs for communal irrigation—within the Limpopo and Volta river basins. 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The document advocates for polycentric governance models, the use of NASA's Earth Observation data to monitor soil moisture and evapotranspiration, and the adoption of a 'bioeconomy' framework to create sustainable, renewable resource cycles. It specifically references the Lake Winnipeg bioeconomy project as a model for linking nutrient cycles with energy production. 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