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The Application of GIS as an Assessment and Planning Tool for Smallholder Irrigation Market Development: a case study from the West African Sahel

John Magistro

Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology (BARA), Anthropology Building Room 316, PO Box 210030, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721-0030, USA, jvm{at}email.arizona.edu

Andre Bassolé

CERPINEDD (Centre d'études, de recherche et de production en information pour l'environnement et le développement durable), 979, Avenue de l'Armée, Cité An , Immeuble J - Espace J28, 01 BP 6398 Ouagadougou 01, Burkina Faso, abassole{at}fasonet.bf, a_bassole{at}yahoo.com

Elizabeth Weight

International Development Enterprises, 10403 W. Colfax, Suite 500, Lakewood , CO 80215, USA, eweight{at}ideorg.org

This article outlines a regional-scale assessment methodology using geographic information systems (GIS) as a source of value-added information to identify and prioritize areas within Africa where an irrigation and market-based poverty alleviation model could potentially be applied to benefit poor, small-scale farmers. This assessment methodology, Poverty Reduction through Irrigation and Smallholder Markets (PRISM), is being piloted by a US-based private voluntary organization to assist development organizations to better target and identify smallholder communities for pro-poor market-led interventions that will ultimately boost farm income and move large numbers of the rural poor out of poverty. The Sahel region of West Africa is presented as a case study for the piloting of a GIS scoping methodology.

Key Words: geographic information systems • small-scale irrigation • poverty reduction • smallholder market development • agricultural value chain development • horticultural value chain development • assessment methodology • West African Sahel

Information Development, Vol. 23, No. 2-3, 137-150 (2007)
DOI: 10.1177/0266666907078681
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