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This project aims to assess the potential impact of using brackish and saline water resources in novel irrigated agriculture systems to improve the livelihoods of the rural poor in selected areas in WANA. It will target poor groups in rural areas with large concentrations of poverty. These will include small landowners and tenant farmers in rainfed areas in Jordan, Syria and Tunisia; small farmers in irrigated areas in Egypt and Tunisia; and rangeland pastoralists in Syria, where demand for imported feed and forage has increased dramatically in recent years. Additional target groups will include non-cultivators, who have lost their land and depend on seasonal employment in agriculture and agriculture-related informal rural industries, who will benefit from increased agricultural productivity; and rural women, many of whom spend hours daily in fetching drinking water who will benefit from decreased pressure on available fresh water resources.
Collaborators: International Center for Biosaline Agriculture (ICBA), Desert Research Center (DRC), Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation (MWRI), The National Center for Agricultural Research and Technology Transfer (NCARTT), The Syrian Ministry of Agriculture and Agrarian Reform, The Institution for Agricultural Research and Higher Education (IRESA)
Duration: 2004-2005
Project Proposal : [download word]
Workshops:
Harnessing Salty Water to Enhance Sustainable Livelihoods of the Rural Poor in Four Countries in West Asia and North Africa: Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Tunisia, 28-29 June 2004 held at ICBA, Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Report of the Project Workshop
Project output:
Research Report 11, 2006, Prospects for productive use of saline water in West Asia and North Africa. Stenhouse, J. and J. W. Kijne
Policy Brief - Use of saline water in agriculture to improve livelihoods in West Asia and North Africa
Saline Water use in Agriculture -
Literature Search,
September 2004
Project completion report – January 2005
National Reports -
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