Sub-Saharan Africa has an irrigation potential of about 42 million
hectares of which only 17% is developed. Despite several
investments in irrigation the growth is slow. This study aims at
helping to achieve sustainable irrigation in sub-Saharan Africa,
through gaining a better understanding of productive irrigation
water use and effective management of irrigation development. The
study is conducted in the White Volta sub-basin specifically in
Northern Ghana and Southern Burkina Faso which have been
experiencing rapid irrigation development since the mid 1990s. The
study identified growing markets for irrigated products as an
important driving force behind the expansion of irrigation which
has given rise to new technologies. The new technologies have
spread because they gave farmers direct control over water sources.
These new technologies allow relatively small farm sizes which can
be adequately managed by the surveyed farmers. As a result high
productivities are achieved. The hydrological impact of upscaling
irrigation in the sub-basin is sustainable and will maximize the
overall benefits derived from water resources in the Volta Basin.
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