Stage 5: Scaling
Technology was considered for broader scaling through field testing and cost benefit analysis. Farmer perceptions and preferences considered.
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Low income, food insecurity in areas that rely mostly on rainfed production alone. Ethiopia government seeks to expand access to groundwater and expand irrigation. Challenge is how to introduce supplemental and dry season irrigation to improve yield, income, nutrition, and create resilience against climate shocks.
Provides a low-cost way to introduce irrigation and lift water from shallow wells; compared to rainfed production only. Improves observable water quality.
Farmers at the household level
This device is mainly used with hand-dug wells. A bucket on a rope is lowered into the water. When the bucket hits the water it dips and fills, and is pulled up with the rope. The rope may be held by hand, run through a pulley, or wound on a windlass. Sometimes, animal traction is used in combination with a pulley. Improved systems use a rope through a pulley, and buckets. For water, less than 10 m deep, a windlass with a hose running from the bottom of the bucket to a spout at the side of the well can be used.
Improvement over rainfed systems and buckets or watering cans for smallscale irrigators. Inexpensive, produced and serviced locally (with training).
Planned Goals and Milestones
No scaling activity expected; most farmers prefer and gain more income from motorized water lifting.
The Team Behind the Innovation
We team with the CGIAR (IWMI, ILRI and IFPRI), and national universities and agriculture research institutes (including extension) to enable field work and access expertise and experience globally. We also have a network of private sector companies as knowledge partners.
EXECUTIVE TEAM INCLUDES WOMEN