Global Map of Irrigation Areas

Cape Verde

Area equipped for irrigation is 2780 ha, while the area actually irrigated is 1821 ha. The figures refer to year 1997. Irrigation potential was estimated at 3109 ha in 1993. Irrigation potential and area actually irrigated were available per island and region [CV01]. Area equipped for irrigation per island and region as documented in the table below, was estimated as area actually irrigated + 0.7211 * (irrigation potential - area actually irrigated) with exception of the regions Santa Catarina and Porto Novo. For these regions the area equipped for irrigation was set to the value reported for area actually irrigated because the irrigation potential reported for the year 1993 was lower than the area actually irrigated reported for 1997.

Irrigated area was assigned to grid cells according to the GLC2000 land cover map for Africa [CV02] considering all areas classified as "Croplands with open woody vegetation".

References

[CV01]: Ministère de l’agriculture de l’élevage et de la sylviculture. 1997. Plan national directeur de l’irrigation - Cap Vert.
[CV02]: Mayaux, P., Bartholomé, E., Cabral, A., Cherlet, M., Defourny, P., Di Gregorio, A., Diallo, O., Massart, M., Nonguierma, A., Pekel, J.-F., Pretorius, C., Vancutsem, C., and Vasconcelos, M. 2003. The Land Cover Map for Africa in the Year 2000. European Commision Joint Research Centre, (available at: http://www-gem.jrc.it/glc2000).

Distribution of irrigated area in Cape Verde by region and Island: