1. Limpopo River Basin Focal Project Limpopo River Basin Focal Project Kevin Scott

2. Limpopo River Basin Focal Project Challenge Program Understanding the links between poverty, water availability, water productivity and local institutional arrangements to plan and bring about global improvements in agricultural water use efficiency – producing more crop per drop while improving the livelihoods of rural communities

3. Limpopo River Basin Focal Project Basin Focal Projects  Identifying the major issues  Establishing the links between issues  Exploring options for change  Producing guidelines for future research Organised in 6 inter-linked work packages

4. Limpopo River Basin Focal Project Work Packages  WP1Poverty Analysis  WP2Water Availability  WP3Water Productivity  WP4Institutional Arrangements  WP5Options for Intervention  WP6Knowledge Management

5. Limpopo River Basin Focal Project Water – The Life-blood of Development Issues Surrounding Availability and Access and their Impact on Emerging Policies

6. Limpopo River Basin Focal Project Water – The Key to Growth  Drinking Water  Water for Sanitation  Facilitating Industrial Development  Improving Food Production  Common Denominator for all Growth

7. Limpopo River Basin Focal Project Cycle of Failure in Agricultural Developments  History of Failure  Risks of Water Supply  Competition for Resources  Demand vs Supply Management  Environment and Protection of Water Resources

8. Limpopo River Basin Focal Project Failing Irrigation Schemes 215 schemes Limpopo Province RSA  Revilalisation under RESIS project  Norm rather than Exception  Schemes seem to be Designed to Fail  Under-estimate of the Impact of Supply Risks

9. Limpopo River Basin Focal Project Water Availability

10. Limpopo River Basin Focal Project Supply Risks

11. Limpopo River Basin Focal Project Water Use and Risk  Who uses what water at what risk?  Competition for high risk water?  Opportunity value of water  Impact of Risk on:  Poor farmers  Small-scale production units

12. Limpopo River Basin Focal Project Productivity versus Plot Size (Vegetable production)

13. Limpopo River Basin Focal Project Peasant Traps  Cycles of failure  High risks  Security of Income  Household Food Security  Nutritional Security Establishing a Balance

14. Limpopo River Basin Focal Project Demand Management  Limited Reliable Supply  Equitable Distribution of Available Resources  Priority Setting  Protecting Water Resources

15. Limpopo River Basin Focal Project Supply Management  Assessing Potential  Developing Resources  Improving Reliability of Supply  Timing of Cost Recovery  Development Chains  Trade-offs

16. Limpopo River Basin Focal Project Assessing Potential (Risk Related)

17. Limpopo River Basin Focal Project Global Potential  Water Accounting Systems  Planned Interventions  Impact of Changes  Environmental Impacts  Social Impacts  Impact Pathways  Consequences

18. Limpopo River Basin Focal Project Climate Variability

19. Limpopo River Basin Focal Project Variability of Flow

20. Limpopo River Basin Focal Project Variability  Function of Mean and Median Flows  Risks Increasing with Variability  Impact on ‘Normal Flow’  The Black Hole of the Limpopo  Environmental Considerations One size fits all?

21. Limpopo River Basin Focal Project Where to? - Guidelines  Assessment of Development Potential  Protection of Water Resources  Development  Impacts Appropriate Policy Briefs

22. Limpopo River Basin Focal Project End Kevin Scott