The Impact of Small Scale Irrigation on the Income and Food Security Among Small-Scale Farmers in Ethiopia: A Review

Edilu Ashu

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The Impact of Small Scale Irrigation on the Income and Food Security Among Small-Scale Farmers in Ethiopia: A Review

Edilu Ashu

Published in American Journal of Environmental and Resource Economics (Volume 7, Issue 2)

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Irrigation in Ethiopia is perceived as a key approach to minimize poverty, food insecurity, and rising income. Irrigation has various positive and harmful effects on the country as a whole. Based on the studies conducted in Ethiopia, the reviewer is intended to review the impact of small-scale irrigation on smallholder farmers' income, food security, and health condition in Ethiopia. Different documents carried out in Ethiopia were reviewed as the source. The income of the smallholder farmers was improved positively and significantly due to practicing small-scale irrigation as reviewed. The occurrence of waterborne diseases including malaria, schistosomiasis, cholera, bilharzia, typhoid, diarrhea, and bacterial dysentery within the irrigation practicing system was significantly higher than in the rain-fed practicing system. Therefore, initiating private investment in delivering inputs, manufacturing, distributing, and maintaining irrigation technologies should be expected from local, woreda, zonal, and national level administration as well as other private bodies. Building strong capacity in information management, technical capacity, and know-how at national, regional, zonal, and woreda levels on planning, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation viewpoint related to irrigation management to improve irrigation practice among users have to be required.

Published in	American Journal of Environmental and Resource Economics (Volume 7, Issue 2)
DOI	10.11648/j.ajere.20220702.12
Page(s)	53-59
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Income, Malaria, Impact, Irrigation

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