date:Aug 27, 2012
The International Water Management Institute (IWMI), a CGIAR consortium research centre, released the paper ahead of Stockholm World Water Week.
According to the report, Water for wealth and food security: Supporting farmer-driven investments in agricultural water management, expanding the use of smallholder water management techniques could increase yields up to 300 per cent in some cases, and add tens of billions of US dollars to household revenues across sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.
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