WATER HARVESTING
Simple and affordable water harvesting technologies, which improves access to water for smallholder farmers during dry seasons and droughts.
Simple and affordable water harvesting technologies (WHT) can improve access to water for smallholder farmers during dry seasons and droughts, contribute to drinking water quality, and enhance integrated water management at the household level.
In KOFLEC we are of the opinion, that water harvesting should go hand in hand with agroforestry and agroecology to preserve, restore and build ecosystems and soil resilience. Correct solutions of low-cost WHT systems will vary from community to community, district to district, and the project partners experience from the organic Farmer Family Learning Group (FFLG) approach is that cocreation among smallholder farmers is core to sustainability and that locally generated knowledge that embraces existing (indigenous/traditional) knowledge and new insights offer the best solutions for small-scale farmers’ adoption of new technologies.
KOFLEC has through the RIWAH project tested different low cost, context specific water harvesting technologies. Water harvesting technologies which have proven efficient in benefitting small holder farmers with reliable water supply during dry seasons, increased organic crop production, improved soil and water management - and through this enhanced climate resilience and food security.
BENEFITS FOR SMALLHOLDER FARMERS:
- Reliable water supply during dry seasons
- Increased organic crop production
- Improved soil and water management
- Use of low-cost, locally sourced materials
- Enhanced climate resilience and food security
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