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Proceedings of
SANCID 2004 Symposium, "Integrated Water Resources Management
Challenges for Irrigated Agricaulture"
- Fish River Sun 16-19 November 2004
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The papers presented
at the Symposium are available on request from Linda Smit at
lindas@wrc.org.za.
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17 November 2004 |
Opening of the symposium – Dr
Gerhard Backeberg
Keynote address – Prof.
Roland Schulze
Session 1: Small-Scale Irrigation Issues (Chairperson:
Andrew Sanewe)
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Revitalisation of
small-scale irrigation schemes in the
Limpopo
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Jonathan Denison |
Water resource
management for local development:
Governance, Institutions and Policies
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Litha Magingxa
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Trends, opportunities & constraints for the
revitalization of small-scale irrigation
schemes in South Africa
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Claudious Chikozho
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Policy & institutional dimensions of
small-holder farmer innovations in the
Thukela River Basin of South Africa & the
Pangani River Basin or Tanzania: A
comparative perspective
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Mosima
Masekoameng |
Community water management: how
does the policy issues impact on small holder
farmers & rural women?
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Session 2: Appropriate Technology – Small-Scale Farmers
(Chairperson: Chris Stimie)
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Small-scale farmer irrigation management
with irrigation calendars & wetting
front detectors
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Abraham Singels |
Improving irrigation water use efficiency of
small-scale sugarcane production by real-time
scheduling advice using weather data, a web
based crop model & cellular technology
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Jonathan Denison |
A irrigation design toolkit of standard flood
irrigation structures a set of detailed design
drawings and quantities |
Session 3: Water Harvesting (Chairperson: Godfrey
Kundlande)
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Towards a
turn-around strategy for alleviating
poverty at household level through
up-scaling of water harvesting
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Danie Beukes
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Rural natural
Resources and its productive use: Implications
for water harvesting
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Nomakhaya Monde
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The spiral of
poverty in rural villages: current status,
constrains and challenges |
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Cobus Botha
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Up scaling water
harvesting in the Free State Province from
backyards to croplands: successes,
constraints, challenges
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Piet le Roux
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Soilscape survey for
planning in-filed rainwater harvesting in Thaba
Nchu |
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18 November 2004 |
Session 4: Water Management Challenges (Chairperson:
Hilmy Sally)
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Water resource
management on the level of WUA
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Andrew Pott
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Fractional water allocation: implications for
irrigation farmers |
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Kevin Scott
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Development of an irrigation water risk analysis
model (IW-RAM) |
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Pieter van Heerden
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Water management plans: The effect of irrigation
strategy on irrigation requirement
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Isobel van der Stoep
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Further development of indirect
measuring methods for pumped irrigation water
supplies. |
Session 5: Irrigation Scheduling and Water Use
Efficiency (Chairperson: Abraham Singels)
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"Sasched": A water conservation & demand
management tool for irrigated sugarcane
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Nebo Jovanovic
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Testing the FAO Biomass-water productivity
function using data from Witbank (South Africa)
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Carolyn Howell
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Water saving irrigation technology for
Viticulture in South Africa
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Paul du Plessis
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The role of Mesoscale weather networks in
irrigation scheduling for rural water resource
management
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Emile Jordaan
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Water conservation: the use of
appropriate technology to determine readily
available water in the active root zone of
plants |
Session 6: Irrigation System Uniformity (Chairperson:
Isobel van der Stoep)
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Performance of drip irrigation systems
under field conditions
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Khumoesile Mmolawa
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Evaluation of water application uniformity under
a center pivot irrigation system
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Greg Ascough
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Accounting for uniformity of applied irrigation
using multiple water balances in ZIMsched 2.0
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Herbital Maluleke
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The potential of water pricing as
an instrument for water conservation in
irrigated agriculture
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Session 7: Environmental Issues (Chairperson: Meiring du
Plessis)
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Cost effectiveness of
uniform fertiliser taxes and increasing
water charges to combat water pollution
from irrigated agriculture
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Jack Armour
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Using SALMOD, & economic
optimisation model to help decide whether to
adopt more salt resistant crops or whether to
remediate saline soils. |
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Piet Nell
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The effect of the Blesbokspruit Wetland system
on the Purification of gold mine effluent water
for use by irrigated agriculture
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John Annandale
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The environment sustainability of
large scale irrigation with mine water
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Theresa Volschenk
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Water quality and soil salinity in the Orange
River Basin |
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Posters
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A critical assessment o
the technical aspects of rainwater
harvesting for crop production.
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Piet le Roux
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Effect of irrigation on soil
salinity profiles along the lower Vaal river,
South Africa. |
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Mompathi Baiphethi
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SEM-IRWH: A model for simulating
socio-economic impacts of crop production on
household food securities. |
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