How to Bring Drip Irrigation to Smallholders when Conventional Approaches Fail

From FarmingFirst – farmingfirst.org

This World Water Week, iDE will convene a side event on bringing drip irrigation to smallholder farmers, bringing together key stakeholders from the drip industry, NGOs, donor agencies, finance, and scientific institutions to discuss how they can bring –in a concerted effort – suitable and affordable drip irrigation technologies to smallholders. The conveners of the seminar will present on the current landscape of the drip irrigation industry, their perspective on the challenges and solutions mentioned above, and discuss the potential for collaboration across sectors and organizations.

Farmers using drip irrigation kits are able to save water and energy while increasing their crop yields and profit. iDE will share its experiences of selling over 150,000 drip kits to smallholder farmers through case studies focused on Burkina Faso and Cambodia. Building on these case studies and a broad industry market assessment, iDE will facilitate a discussion on how to accelerate the dissemination of drip irrigation kits in developing countries to significantly contribute to the eradication of extreme poverty through strong private sector engagement and a focus on the farmer as an entrepreneur.

Find out more at worldwaterweek.org