Mapping the potential success of agricultural water management interventions for smallholders: where are the best opportunities?

This research paper introduces Targeting Agricultural Water Management Interventions (TAGMI), an online open-access decision support tool designed to identify the most appropriate agricultural water management (AWM) interventions for smallholder farming systems by assessing the likelihood of success for outscaling these interventions at a sub-national level.

• The Targeting Agricultural Water Management Interventions (TAGMI) tool utilizes country-scale Bayesian network models to evaluate the probability of success for outscaling AWM interventions. It integrates expertise regarding the enabling environment by analyzing natural, physical, financial, human, and social factors.
• As a proof of concept, the TAGMI tool was used to estimate the relative probability of success for three specific AWM technologies within the Volta and Limpopo river basins: small reservoirs for communal irrigation, small-scale private irrigation, and in situ rainwater harvesting/soil water conservation in rain-fed systems.
• The paper employs a climate change scenario to evaluate the robustness of potential AWM according to the tool and highlights a requirement for further development of Decision Support Systems and information on 'best practices of implementation' to ensure technology uptake in smallholder farming systems constrained by poverty.

APA

Stockholm Environment Institute (2015). Mapping the potential success of agricultural water management interventions for smallholders: where are the best opportunities? https://www.sei.org/publications/mapping-the-potential-success-of-agricultural-water-management-interventions-for-smallholders-where-are-the-best-opportunities/

Chicago

Stockholm Environment Institute. Mapping the potential success of agricultural water management interventions for smallholders: where are the best opportunities? 2015. https://www.sei.org/publications/mapping-the-potential-success-of-agricultural-water-management-interventions-for-smallholders-where-are-the-best-opportunities/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{stockholmenvironmentinstitute2015mapping, author = {{Stockholm Environment Institute}}, title = {{Mapping the potential success of agricultural water management interventions for smallholders: where are the best opportunities?}}, institution = {Stockholm Environment Institute}, year = {2015}, month = jun, url = {https://www.sei.org/publications/mapping-the-potential-success-of-agricultural-water-management-interventions-for-smallholders-where-are-the-best-opportunities/}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }