The document summarizes an annual consultation meeting for a project aimed at improving water management for sustainable mountain agriculture. The goal is to promote sustainable agriculture through better water management. The project has four components: developing water harvesting guidelines, improving water management, assessing policies, and capacity building. It is active in Jordan, Lebanon, and Morocco, working with local partners in each country. It focuses on developing and demonstrating improved irrigation, crop management, and diversification practices. The emphasis in 2014 is on disseminating results through expanded demonstrations, training, and publications. While progress has been made, more time is needed to fully utilize results and maximize impacts on natural resources and perennial crops.
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Project improved water management for sustainable mountain agriculture jordan, lebanon and morocco
1. Annual Consultation Meeting
IFAD/ICARDA
Project: Improved Water Management for Sustainable
Mountain Agriculture: Jordan, Lebanon and Morocco
Mohammed Karrou, IWLMP-ICARDA
Amman, October 21-22, 2014
2. Goal and Purpose
· Goal: to promote sustainable agricultural production practices, higher
incomes and improved livelihoods for rural communities in mountain
agro-ecosystems through better management of the scarce water
resources.
· Purpose: to introduce and promote adoption of optimal and
integrated water, land and crop management techniques for
sustainable increases in agricultural productivity and profitability as
well as for ceasing land degradation in mountainous areas
3. Components of the project
• Component 1: Development and validation of mountain water
harvesting assessment model and design guidelines.
• Component 2: Improved water management for sustainable
mountain agriculture
• Component 3: Assessing institutional and policy frameworks in
mountainous areas
• Component 4: Capacity building in improved water management for
mountain agriculture
4. Our partners in Jordan:
NCARE, ARMP; MOA, University in Al Karak
Location of the Erak site (basin)
5. Our partners in Lebanon:
LARI, GP, HSAD project ,MOA
Location of Merj Hine site
6. Our partners in Morocco:
INRA, PDRMO project, DRA of Fes
Boulmane, DPA of Boulmane
Location of Talzemt site
9. Component 1: Development and validation of mountain
water harvesting assessment model and design guidelines.
· Sites characterized and land suitability maps developed;
· The existing water sources (springs, earth ponds) and WH
systems analyzed and options of their rehabilitation
described;
• Semicircular bunds (Olive); Vallerani machine(Pastoral
plants); Gabion, Check dams implemented and
demonstrated to the farmers in Jordan;
• Semi-circular SC/WH structures with almond planting
demonstrated and implemented by farmers in Morocco;
• Farmer’s trained on how to enlarge and improve small
farmers’ water reservoirs for irrigation purpose in
Lebanon;
10. Component 2: Improved water management for
sustainable mountain agriculture
Irrigation management:
•On-farm trials conducted on deficit irrigation with
drip system of different crops : saving of 20 to 25 % of
irrigation water in open field and plastic greenhouse
without negative effect on yields.
Crop management:
•Improved crop management packages
demonstrated to farmers on fruit trees and
vegetables in their fields (planting density, pruning
and fruiting, Irrigation scheduling, fertilization, IPM).
11. Component 2: Improved water management for
sustainable mountain agriculture
Diversification of cropping systems:
•Borlotti beans, Broccoli, Cucumber, several Brussels’
small cabbage, blackcurrants, apple in Lebanon;
•Apple varieties and Almond in Morocco;
•Vegetable crops; atriplex, barley, Crocus corms in
Jordan.
12. Component 3: Assessing institutional and policy frameworks in
mountainous areas
•Existing policies described and analyzed: Strengths and weaknesses
identified;
•The relevance, effectiveness and farmers access to the existing
financial policy incentives in terms of cost sharing and subsidies as well
as legislative and capacity development measures being applied in
support of land and water use efficiency for sustainable mountain
agriculture have been assessed;
•The performance of the institutions involved in the implementation of
the above policies have been assessed
13. • Technicians and engineers from the IFAD development project involved in
the design and implementation of the work plan;
• The project stimulated and enhanced the synergy between the different
actors involved in the management of water and land in the Mountainous
areas
• The On-farm trials of the project are used as platforms/field schools for
IFAD development project engineers/technicians and farmers;
• On-the-job training organized for farmers and extension
engineers/technicians on improved irrigation management, WH/SWC
systems and crop management;
• 727 dunum implemented with Vallerani machine in 25 farmer’s fields ;
1,000 atriplex (Jordan);
• 14 ha (40 farmers)of almond trees planted by IFAD development project
(Morocco)
How the project is linked to/helped IFAD
development projects in targeted countries?
14. Training course on: Identification of Suitable Sites
for Hill Lakes Using Google Earth
Training Activities for GP engineers:
Hill lakes functions and criteria for site selection
Introduction to the use of
Google Earth and its features
Integrating information layers such as
land use/land cover, water resources, soil,
geology, population and others to Google
earth using different data sources on
global, regional and national level.
15. Training Activities:
Exercises on suitable sites selection, using various data sources, with Google
Earth (PCs)
18. What is the emphasis in 2014
In the last year of this phase (2014) the emphasis has been made
on the dissemination of the technologies and information:
•Doubling of the number of the on-farm demonstration trials;
•Field days;
•Training of the farmers and extension engineers and technicians;
•Development of technical guides, pamphlets, leaflets;
•Preparation of reports and publications.
19. What is next?
• Despite the effort made in developing improved technologies and in
linking the project activities with IFAD development programs in the
participating countries;
• it is obvious that there is still a need for further fine-tuning and out-scaling
the developed TIPOs of natural resources management;
• The project needs more time to fully utilize its outputs and maximize its
impacts that cannot be achieved in a short term in this kind of research
(natural resources and perennial crops);
• As the project aims at saving and better use of three main sources of
water in WANA region, the future work should aim at the development,
for each case, of models of sustainable and integrated water use at up
and downstream levels and out-scaling them in similar mountainous
areas;
• In addition to the technical aspects, the model should integrate the
policy, institutional and market issues.