Agri-vector water: boosting rainfed agriculture with urban water allocation to support urban–rural linkages

We propose the concept of ‘agri-vector water’ (AVW) to refer water allocated towns maintain urban-based agricultural services that support rainfed farming in surrounding areas. AVW captures idea highly scarce ‘blue can be productively used this way ‘green rather than applied as consumptive irrigation, especially when latter exacerbates shortages during drought and dry seasons arid semi-arid regions. To illustrate, we present two case studies from Ethiopia.