Study tours
I plan, organise, and run study tours to clients’ requirements using my extensive network of professional contacts across the world
Afghan regional directors study irrigation in South Africa
Major rehabilitation programmes are underway across Afghanistan to increase water security and agricultural production using irrigation. This study tour was to aquaint senior professionals from various water and water using ministries with developments in integrated water resources management and irrigation. It focused on how South Africa manages river basins, deals with water sharing with other nations, how research is prioritised, how capacity is built in the agricultural water sector, and how agri-business interacts with government and water resources management. South Africa has a split economy – a thriving modern commercially based agricultural economy and one built around smallholder farmers where economic and social development are the main priorities. Afghanistan is likely to have similar challenges in the future.
Some comments from participants:
“We were interested to see how South Africa established the river basin authorities and how the new Water Laws were working in practice”
“South Africa has good experience of trans-boundary water management with water sharing with Mozambique, and Swaziland from the same catchment”
“We cannot replicate in Afghanistan what South Africa has done, but we can apply the lessons we have learned”
Client: Ministry of Water and Energy and the World Bank
Afghan regional directors study irrigation in South Africa
Major rehabilitation programmes are underway across Afghanistan to increase water security and agricultural production using irrigation. This study tour was to aquaint senior professionals from various water and water using ministries with developments in integrated water resources management and irrigation. It focused on how South Africa manages river basins, deals with water sharing with other nations, how research is prioritised, how capacity is built in the agricultural water sector, and how agri-business interacts with government and water resources management. South Africa has a split economy – a thriving modern commercially based agricultural economy and one built around smallholder farmers where economic and social development are the main priorities. Afghanistan is likely to have similar challenges in the future.
Some comments from participants:
“We were interested to see how South Africa established the river basin authorities and how the new Water Laws were working in practice”
“South Africa has good experience of trans-boundary water management with water sharing with Mozambique, and Swaziland from the same catchment”
“We cannot replicate in Afghanistan what South Africa has done, but we can apply the lessons we have learned”
Client: Ministry of Water and Energy and the World Bank
Afghan regional directors study irrigation in South Africa
Major rehabilitation programmes are underway across Afghanistan to increase water security and agricultural production using irrigation. This study tour was to aquaint senior professionals from various water and water using ministries with developments in integrated water resources management and irrigation. It focused on how South Africa manages river basins, deals with water sharing with other nations, how research is prioritised, how capacity is built in the agricultural water sector, and how agri-business interacts with government and water resources management. South Africa has a split economy – a thriving modern commercially based agricultural economy and one built around smallholder farmers where economic and social development are the main priorities. Afghanistan is likely to have similar challenges in the future.
Some comments from participants:
“We were interested to see how South Africa established the river basin authorities and how the new Water Laws were working in practice”
“South Africa has good experience of trans-boundary water management with water sharing with Mozambique, and Swaziland from the same catchment”
“We cannot replicate in Afghanistan what South Africa has done, but we can apply the lessons we have learned”
Client: Ministry of Water and Energy and the World Bank
Afghan regional directors study irrigation in South Africa
Major rehabilitation programmes are underway across Afghanistan to increase water security and agricultural production using irrigation. This study tour was to aquaint senior professionals from various water and water using ministries with developments in integrated water resources management and irrigation. It focused on how South Africa manages river basins, deals with water sharing with other nations, how research is prioritised, how capacity is built in the agricultural water sector, and how agri-business interacts with government and water resources management. South Africa has a split economy – a thriving modern commercially based agricultural economy and one built around smallholder farmers where economic and social development are the main priorities. Afghanistan is likely to have similar challenges in the future.
Some comments from participants: