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From subsistence farming to sugar-canemonoculture: impacts on agrobiodiversity, local knowledge and food security

A case study of two irrigation and agricultural development projects in Swaziland

Year of publication 2008

Pages 44

Product type Project

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) In 1999, the Government of the Kingdom of Swaziland established a 25-year national development strategy (NDS) to guide the formulation of development plans designed to eradicate poverty, create employment, and achieve gender equity, social integration and environmental protection. Consistent with the priorities and strategies identified in the NDS, the Government of Swaziland has recently begun to implement two major water irrigation projects, the Komati Downstream Development Project (KDDP) and the Lower Usuthu Smallholder Irrigation Project (LUSIP), in one of the driest and poorest areas of the country (the Lowveld). The aim of these projects is to provide irrigation to 17 500 ha of land, helping local smallholder farmers to shift from a subsistence agricultural system to cashcrop production, mainly of sugar cane.

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