Assessing research priorities for blue water use in food production

This scoping study is now complete; it has delivered a water strategy which has informed two subsequent projects: Increasing irrigation water productivity in Mozambique, Tanzania and Zimbabwe through on-farm monitoring, adaptive management and agricultural innovation platforms and A traffic light soil water sensor for resource poor farmers.

This research into use of harvested rain (dams, rivers, aquifers) for sustainable food production aimed to understand how better water management can be achieved at the farm and community scale. The research examined what the farmers need in terms of technology and training, and how governance and learning systems can sustain productive use in a whole-of-catchment context.