Sudan
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WaPOR database and applications presented during the Nile Basin Development Forum in Kamapala, Uganda
20/09/2023
The WaPOR team participated to the the Nile Basin Development Forum, a high-level regional event convened every three years by the Nile Basin Initiative (NBI) in collaboration with its Member States and in partnership with development partners.
Ms Livia Peiser, Technical Officer fo...
WaPOR data validation training in Sudan
21/03/2023
In an three-day event from March 19th to 21st, 2023, the IHE Delft Institute for Water Education held a dynamic face-to-face training workshop on WaPOR Data Validation in Khartoum, Sudan. This anticipated training marked the second installment following the highly introductory training on WaPO...
WaPOR presented at a field day with farmers in the Gezira Scheme, Sudan
04/03/2023
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About Sudan
The Republic of Sudan is a country in northeast Africa. With a population of 45.70 million people (as of 2022) and an area of 1,886,068 square kilometres, it is the third largest country in Africa by area. Sudan has 210 million hectares of arable land, of which only 25% is used. According to the World Bank, agriculture generates 35-40% of GDP and employs 70-80% of the rural labour force.
Sudan is half desert, and much of the population suffers from a lack of clean drinking water as well as a reliable source of water for agriculture. With the Nile in the east of the country, parts of Sudan do have considerable water resources, but people in the west rely on wadis, seasonal wells, which often dry up.
Low soil and water productivity is one of the biggest challenges due to erratic climatic conditions, degraded soils, inadequate and poor technologies and lack of knowledge. Improving irrigation and agriculture, including crop production, livestock, fisheries and forestry, is therefore crucial for poverty reduction.
Project milestones:June 2021: start of WaPOR phase 2 project in Sudan.
9 September 2021: project inception workshop
13 - 14 September 2022: introduction training and stakeholder meeting
19 - 21 March 2023: WaPOR data validation training
Pilot areas:
The Gezira Scheme was selected as the pilot area for the project. The scheme is located in the triangular plains between the Blue Nile and the White Nile south of Khartoum, where the two rivers meet. It extends southwards near the towns of Sennar on the Blue Nile and Kosti on the White Nile, about 400 kilometres from Khartoum. The Gezira system is currently one of the largest irrigation systems in the world under a single management. It covers an area of about 2.2 million feddans (about 900,000 hectares) with about 130,000 tenants.
WaPOR partnerships in Sudan
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