The existence of small-scale informal farmer-managed irrigation systems in sub-Saharan Africa is now widely recognized, and there is interest in the potential for development intervention to enhance ...

World Bank IDA funding is being used in Kenya to strengthen and expand a system of irrigation channels that allows farmers to make more use of plentiful water from the Nzoia river. Widening the ...

Kenya's irrigation potential is about 1.342 million hectares of land. But the government has also pointed out in its long-term plan - Vision 2030 - that an additional 9.2 million hectares in arid and ...

Along the sun-drenched banks of the River Nzoia in western Kenya, a quiet transformation is taking root. Fields that once lay bare, scorched by droughts and battered by unpredictable floods, now ...

In the scorching sun, Alphonce Abok keeps an eye on his fields of watermelons growing near the banks of the Sound River, one of the major channels feeding into Lake Victoria. "I hope with enough water ...