Noticias
Two new multi-million euro irrigation projects in Mozambique
CALM member Wim van Driel and others have jointly won two multi-million euro projects within the Sustainable Irrigation Development Project (PROIRRI), a 5-year program from the Government of Mozambique, financed by the World Bank. PROIRRI is a highly innovative project, both in its broad approach to revive the country’s irrigation sector and in its approach of supporting farmer-initiated irrigation development.
Through these projects Wageningen UR can contribute and showcase its key expertise in this field and extend its long-lasting relation with the Mozambican water sector. The first project is a 3-year institutional and capacity development project with 4 major components:
- institutional development of the recently established National Irrigation Institute
- setting-up irrigation education at 5 higher education institutes
- capacity building of agricultural extension in the field of water, and
- training of local contractors and artisans.
