Automated irrigation as a game-changer for farming in sub-Saharan Africa: Is it enough?

In the outskirts of Tanzania’s peri-urban Babati town, Africa RISING worked with farmers to validate a bundled ‘smart irrigation’ technology that includes improved vegetable varieties (tomatoes and sweet pepper), an automated irrigation kit (to save on scarce water and labour), and a low cost screen house (to keep out pests and diseases).