Water Harvesting in Turkana District, Kenya

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Type:	Working Paper
Author:	Hillmann, Francis
Date:	1980
Agency:	Agricultural Administration Unit, Overseas Development Institute, London
Series:	Pastoral Network Paper, no. 10d
URI:	https://hdl.handle.net/10535/4586
Sector:	Water Resource & Irrigation
Region:	Africa
Subject(s):	irrigation water resources agriculture conservation rural development
Abstract:	"The initial objective of the project was to attempt to utilize run-off water from rainstorms to grow drought resistant food crops in small catchments of fertile deep soil to which this water had been diverted. It was hoped that, given favourable results, this method of utilizing small amounts of rainfall in order to gain some sort of food crop might be taken up by the Turkana people and adapted to their nomadic way of life. Once a catchment area was established it was envisaged that it could be left dormant until such time as suitable rain fell for it to be cultivated."

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