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Water Conservation
"In Africa, only about 6% of the total cultivated land is irrigated... It is estimated that irrigation alone could increase cutput by up to 50% in Africa." - Kanayo Nwanze, IFAD President Statement for Africa Agriculture Science Week, July 2013 IFDC's natural resource management efforts promote rain water harvesting, recycling, gravity-fed drip irrigation and alternate wetting and drying (AWD) among other water conservation techniques. © IFDC 02/14
Water Conservation
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Irrigation and other conservation methods are critical to both saving water and increasing agricultural productivity. IFDC, through its agricultural development projects, employs techniques such as dr...
ip irrigation and alternate wetting and drying to conserve the much-needed resource.
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