What is it about?
Assessed whether access to different typologies of spate irrigation, usually classified as traditional and improved systems, reduces poverty of households and improves children's' nutrition outcomes.
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Why is it important?
This study is important because it helps to see whether production enhancing interventions, to promote traditional or improving the system, are justified from poverty reduction and nutritional benefits of children.
Perspectives
The study produced incentive for me to examine further whether access to other productivity enhancing measures, including perennial irrigation, improves nutrition, if not to look into reasons why this was not the case, by looking at expenditure pathways, intra-household food distribution and the need for nutrition education of caretakers of children. This study opened up further areas of research.
Dr Fitsum Hagos
International Water Management Institute
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This page is a summary of: Poverty Profiles and Nutritional Outcomes of Using Spate Irrigation in Ethiopia, Irrigation and Drainage, February 2017, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1002/ird.2117.
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