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Water and Africa’s Development Agenda
NVAS Afrikastudiedag “Everyday Africa” Rijksmuseum Volkenkunde Leiden, 23 November 2013
Pieter van der Zaag
Professor of Water Resources Management UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education
Delft
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Water and Africa’s Development Agenda
• African countries are among the fastest growing economies of the world!
• Interesting hotspots of endogenous economic development are emerging in many places.
• A new generation of Africans is connecting and connected!
• In a world where footprints are getting larger and resources scarcer, interdependencies start to manifest themselves more clearly.
• The Rest of the World realises it can no longer ignore Africa!
• But Africa has still some homework to do!
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Water and Africa’s Development Agenda
Introduction
1. Water and
2. Water and
3. Water and
Conclusion
Health
Food
Energy
Three critical challenges:
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Water and Health
Access to clean water
Source: Millenium Development Report 2013
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Water and Health
Access to clean water
Source: Millenium Development Report 2013
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Water and Health
Access to clean water
Access to improved sanitation
Source: Millenium Development Report 2013
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Water and Health
Access to clean water
Access to improved sanitation
Source: Millenium Development Report 2013
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Water and Health
Access to clean water
Access to improved sanitation
Reduction of water borne diseases
Source: Millenium Development Report, 2013
Malaria
Diarrhoeal diseases
Child mortality 1990 2011 under 5 deaths per 1,000
Developing world: 97 à 57
Sub-Sahara Africa: 178 à 109
2011: 6.9 million children died before their 5th year
(down from 12.5 million in 1990)
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Water and Health
Source: UNICEF, 2013 Source: World Malaria Report, WHO, 2012
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Water and Health
Source: UNICEF, 2013 Source: UNICEF, 2013
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Water and Health
Source: World Malaria Report, WHO, 2012 Source: UNICEF, 2013
Change in malaria mortality in Africa, 2000-2011 in relation to investment in malaria control
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Water and Health
Lessons:
• Much progress has been made
• But much more has to be done
• A matter of political priority setting
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Water and Food
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Water and Food
Source: Millenium Development Report, 2013
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Source: Millennium Development report, 2011
Water and Food
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Source: De Fraiture et al., 2009
Most agriculture takes place under rain-fed conditions…
Water and Food
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Water and Food
Source: World Bank, 2007; based on FAOSTAT
Source: FAO, 2011
Average maize yield (ton/ha)
Source: FAO Food Security report, 2008
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Source: McKinsey Global Institute, 2010
Water and Food
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• cereal yields in Africa are currently less than 50% of those in
Asia or South America
• Africa accounts for 60% of the world’s uncultivated arable land
Water and Food
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Water and Food
Source: McKinsey Global Institute, 2010
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“Hot spots”
Water and Food
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Nutrients – Water – Energy – Markets
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Water and Food
Coefficient of Variation of maize producer prices, 1971-2002
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Nutrients – Water – Energy – Markets
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Rice, 5 percent broken milled white rice, Thailand nominal price quote
Maize (corn), U.S. No.2 Yellow, FOB Gulf of Mexico, U.S. price
Source: IMF Primary Commodity Prices November 2013; http://www.imf.org/external/np/res/commod/index.asp
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Nutrients – Water – Energy – Markets
Water and Food
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Nutrients – Water – Energy – Markets
Water and Food
Source: World Bank, 2007; based on FAOSTAT
Source: FAO, 2011
Fertilizer use (100 gram/hectare of arable land) Why low fertilizer use in Africa?
- Relatively expensive
- Lack of knowledge of specific fertilizer requirements
- Uncertainty about the return of this investment due to water & markets
Fertilizer use
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Nutrients – Water – Energy – Markets
Water and Food
Source: Conway, 2005
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Harare 10-day rainfall
Lake Victoria annual rainfall
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Nutrients – Water – Energy – Markets
Water and Food North Tanzania seasonal rainfall
Source: Enfors and Gordon, 2007
Source: Conway, 2005
Lake Victoria annual rainfall
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Nutrients – Water – Energy – Markets
Water and Food
Sour
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Gre
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Sad
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2006
Ethiopia annual rainfall and GDP growth
Source: Conway, 2005
Lake Victoria annual rainfall
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Nutrients – Water – Energy – Markets
Water and Food farming systems more resilient to variability
of rainfall and water access
to bridge dry spells increase buffering capacity
and control over water
Buffering rainfed systems against dry spells requires only some 100 mm of additional water storage capacity:
• increase soil moisture storage capacity • if insufficient, add supplementary irrigation from rainwater harvesting
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Water storage – centralised or distributed?
Source: Van der Zaag and Gupta, 2008
Water and Food
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Water storage – centralised or distributed?
Water and Food
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1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010
Number of check dams = 245 242 247 248 253 260 294 345 392 486 2874 3203 3326 3541 3639 3723 3741 3806 3868 4126
Source: Kamboj, 2011
Small reservoirs (check dams) in
, India
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Water and Food
Lessons
• A Green Revolution in Africa is possible!
• Grain yields can triple
• Start with water – i.e. neutralize the uncertainty factor first
• Increased soil moisture availability is possible and feasible
• Invest in small scale distributed storage
• will increase the resilience of farming systems and improve livelihoods
• will be “no regret” investments, whatever the future will bring
• Negative (downstream) externalities will remain small
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Water and Energy
Africa is energy challenged…
… despite a generous natural energy endowment
Per capita electricity use
Africa: 150 kWh/year
Netherlands: 6,500 kWh/year
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Source: SE4All, World Bank, 2013
South Asia
Sub-Sahara Africa
Water and Energy
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Source: SE4All, World Bank, 2013
Of the 20 countries with the highest deficit in access to electricity in 2010, 12 are African
Water and Energy
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Source: SE4All, World Bank, 2013
Water and Energy
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Current capacity: 147 GW (of which hydro: 26 GW) Required in 2030: +250 GW
Water and Energy
Congo: +40(?) GW
Zambezi: >+5 GW
Blue Nile: >+7 GW
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Water and Energy
Africa can light ROW
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1. Water and Health: Africa should not wait but act
2. Water and Food: Africa can produce surplus food for ROW
3. Water and Energy: Africa can generate sufficient renewable energy, perhaps even for ROW
Water and Africa’s Development Agenda
The rest of the world needs Africa!
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Thank you!
www.unesco-ihe.org/pieter-van-der-zaag
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Wat
er P
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ctiv
ity
(Kg
m-3
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Land Productivity (Kg ha-1)
Source: Pasquale Steduto (FAO), Delft, 18 Oct 2012
Water and Food