Hear Louise Sibusiso Nkomo, a project leader in water management in Zimbabwe, describe the challenges she sees in her role working between farmers and engineers.
Video transcript:
Successful irrigation has always been an interaction between the engineers and the farmers. Now the common, most visible problem is that the engineering side of the technology side has always advanced way faster than what the communities themselves can adapt to or can use. So this is where the challenge lies: what is required or what is wanted is for us to eliminate the myth that traditional or former irrigation practices are inevitably not efficient or effective. Instead, farmers working together with engineers can always come up with ideas or systems that are and can be used by the farmers themselves.