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Integrated Water Resources Management, Institutions and Livelihoods under Stress
Bottom-up Perspectives from Zimbabwe; UNESCO-IHE PhD Thesis
IHE Delft PhD Thesis Series
Author: Mabiza Collin C.
Language: EnglishSubjects for Integrated Water Resources Management, Institutions and...:
Keywords
Water Resources Management; smallholder; Catchment Council; farmers; IWRM Framework; catchment; Socio-economic Development; council; Subcatchment Councils; subcatchment; Improve Water Resources Management; councils; River Basin Planning; users; BCC; improve; National Water Authority; conservation; Smallholder Farmers; agriculture; River Basin Organisations; IWRM; Van Der Zaag; Socioeconomic Development; Conservation Agriculture; City’s Water Services; Water Sector Reforms; Waterpoint Committees; FTLRP; Urban Water Services; Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency; Gold Panning; Limpopo River Basin; Smallholder Farming Sector; Planting Basins
Publication date: 02-2013
Support: Print on demand
Publication date: 03-2018
· 17x24.4 cm · Hardback
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The majority of people in Limpopo river basin depend on rainfed agriculture. Unfortunately the Limpopo is water scarce, and parts of the basin, such as Zimbabwe?s Mzingwane catchment, are under stress in terms of agro-ecological and socio-politicoeconomic conditions. Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) has been adopted in the river basin in an attempt to improve water resources management. However, it is not known whether, or how, IWRM has improved practices in water resources management and contributed towards improved livelihoods.
This study used a bottom-up approach to analyse water management practices and livelihoods in the river basin. The objective of the study was to understand practices in water resources management at the local level, and what drives those practices. Specifically the study analysed: practices in access to water for domestic and productive uses, efforts at sustaining livelihoods and the environment, water management for agriculture, contestations over urban water services, and river basin planning. The study showed the importance of context as a driver of practices in water resources management. The demonstrated influence of local level drivers on water resources management and livelihoods suggest that the challenges in water resources management cannot be solved outside of the wider socio-politico-economic realm.