Vegetable Irrigation for Climate Resilience Toolkit

To support irrigation investments for vegetable production during crises — considering the prevailing water, land, and socio-economic contexts, as well as the compounding effects of natural disasters such as floods and droughts — IWMI will develop a scalable approach and an online geospatial portal. This portal will enable humanitarian agencies, their local partners and donor organizations to identify suitable irrigation technologies, accompanied by guidelines on best practices.

As a proof of concept, the toolkit will be developed and tested for Mali and Ethiopia in year 1 with a potential to scale across continental Africa. The project will use a combination of desk-based review, field data collection, geospatial analysis, and prediction models using multi-criteria decision-making and machine learning approaches. The outcome will be a web-based toolkit that includes investment maps and best practice guidelines to facilitate the implementation of localized investments on irrigation for vegetable production affected by humanitarian crises.