Irrigation & Drainage Systems Engineering

Atlhopheng JR

Publications

• Review Article
  Making Markets Work for the Poor (M4P) Approach and Smallholder Irrigation Farming
  Author(s): Solomon Mutambara, Michael Bernard Kwesi Darkoh and Atlhopheng JRSolomon Mutambara, Michael Bernard Kwesi Darkoh and Atlhopheng JR
  
  The aim of this article is to show what M4P is, how it came into being and how it has been used to guide intervention in different context and to weigh the extent to which it can be used to guide the study and interventions aimed at enhancing the sustainability of smallholder irrigation schemes. M4P is a holistic approach to development that offers agencies the route needed to achieve systemic and sustainable change, focusing on the identification and addressing of fundamental constraints that inhibit the beneficial participation of the poor in market systems as either consumers or producers. M4P historically evolved from diverse experiences in business promotion, private- sector policy development, the SL approach and the failure of economic structural adjustment programs and trade liberalizationas development approaches to development and poverty eradication. This diverse backg.. Read More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2168-9768.1000130

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