The Water Institute at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will host the Nexus 2014: Water, Food, Climate and Energy Conference on March 3-7. The Conference will bring together researchers and practitioners working in government, civil society and business, focusing on the nexus approach. Building on the Water, [...]
Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI) is calling for ideas or projects to be showcased at Ideas’ Market that will be organised at the World Water Week. The Ideas Marketplace is an open platform dedicated to ideas and projects seeking funding and/or partnerships. The Ideas’ Marketplace will provide you with an opportunity [...]
In honor of World Water Day, the CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food has released a new series of posters. The CPWF Water Dialogue Poster Series derives key messages from work conducted from Phase 1 of the program (2003-2008) and presents them in striking visual cartoons. The posters are [...]
More than 1200 resources from Phase 1 projects are now on our document repository, CG Space. These resources represent a substantial percentage of all CPWF outputs produced over the last ten years, now consolidated in one accessible location. This effort was accomplished in collaboration with the ILRI information services team.
What will hydropower development mean for the citizens of the Mekong River? A new film, ‘Mekong’, produced by Douglas Varchol and developed with support from CPWF as well as IUCN and Sida explores this question. The film examines the issues of hydropower development and its impact on Mekong citizens’ lives. [...]
CPWF-Mekong proud to announce the launch of two new projects “The thaibaan research methodology we want to use – called ‘sao ban‘ in Laotian – has rarely been used here. We look forward to learning from our Vietnamese and Cambodian partners who have a great experience with this kind of [...]
We are proud to announce the launch of the first paper in our ‘state of knowledge’ (SOK) series. Authored by Ilse Pukinskis and Kim Geheb (both with CPWF-Mekong) the paper explores what is known (and what is not known) about the impact of dams on the fisheries of the Mekong. [...]
From theory to discourse, discourse to practice and practice to impact When the Swiss Development Corporation (SDC), a long-time CPWF partner, invited our program to present at its headquarters in September 2012 they made one particular request: they wanted to hear about CPWF’s ‘approach to gender’. SDC’s interest, one that [...]
IWMI senior researcher, Aditi Mukherji, who leads the CPWF-Ganges project on ‘water governance and community-based management’, was recently awarded the new Norman Borlaug Award for Field Research and Application, Endowed by the Rockefeller Foundation. Dr. Mukherji is being recognized for her pioneering work on groundwater irrigation for agriculture in India. When more [...]
How do you convince a farmer who is struggling to produce a crop not to plough additional land next to his local river, or how can you tell a fisherman who needs to provide for his family that he shouldn’t use certain pesticides to enhance his catch of fish? There [...]
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