Rwanda

Area equipped for irrigation is 8 500 ha [RW01]. The figures refer to year 2000. The irrigated area is visible in the table below and also can be downloaded as Rwanda irrigation areas in PDF or Rwanda irrigation areas in Excel. No sub-national information on areas equipped for irrigation was available.

The location and command area of 6 irrigation projects was derived from the FAO irrigation map for Africa [RW02]. The total area equipped for irrigation in these schemes is 2 005 ha. The remaining irrigated area was assigned to polygons classified as irrigated by the FAO-AFRICOVER data base [RW03].

Based on the qualitative information contained in the AQUASTAT country report [RW01] and groundwater use in neighbouring countries (Cameroon, Congo) it was assumed that only 1 percent of the irrigation area has groundwater supply.

References

[RW01]: FAO. 2005. AQUASTAT country profile Rwanda, FAO, Rome, Italy.
[RW02]: FAO. 1987 (updated in 2005). Irrigated areas in Africa. FAO, Rome, Italy.
[RW03]: FAO. 2005. AFRICOVER, Rwanda - Spatially Aggregated Multipurpose Landcover database, FAO, Rome, Italy, http://www.africover.org, 13/12/2004.