The proceedings from the Mekong Forum on Water, Food and Energy are now available here. The forum was held from November 13-14 in Hanoi. Summaries of the 15 sessions can be found in the proceedings. Read the full story…
The Mekong Forum on Water, Food and Energy, was held from November 13-14 in Hanoi. There were 15 sessions and two keynote speakers. Sessions were centered around four main themes: valuing multiple uses for dams; options for producing food and sustaining livelihoods around dams; managing dam cascades; and governing for water, food, and [...]
The Nile Basin Development Challenge (NBDC) is entering its final year. By December 2013, all activities funded through the Challenge Program for Water and Food (CPWF) need to be complete. A planning exercise on 15 and 16 November brought the core partners together to re-arrange priorities around specific outcomes and [...]
GIS goblet tool training participants (photo credit: C. Pfeifer) The Nile 3 project ‘Targeting and scaling out of rainwater management systems‘ recently organized two training courses on geographic information systems (GIS) for its partners – in Addis Ababa and in Gondar. The objective was to teach and test the beta [...]
Carmen Candelo Reina, Directora Programa Gobernanza y Medios de Vida Sostenible – WWF Colombia El contexto de justicia, respeto y reconocimiento de los derechos que promueven e integran los conversatorios de acción ciudadana, ha mejorado los conocimientos, capacidades y habilidades, y brindado herramientas y condiciones de equidad, aprovechadas por las mujeres [...]
Este blog es disponible tambien en Español. The citizen call to action (in Spanish, a conversatorio de acción ciudadana) is a process that articulates environmental conflicts and citizens’ rights. The approach enables traditionally excluded groups to participate in the analysis of issues affecting them and also take part in decision-making. [...]
On 12 November 2012, 26 participants attended a ‘symposium on modeling in the Blue Nile / Abay Basin‘. It was organized by one of the projects of the Nile Basin Development Challenge (NBDC) – the so-called N4 project on ‘Assessing and anticipating the consequences of innovation in rainwater management systems‘. [...]
By Alain Vidal and Kim Geheb (CPWF-Mekong basin leader) November 7 will probably be remembered for President Obama’s second term success. Nobody that we are aware of remembered that it was also the day, 95 years ago, that the Bolsheviks toppled Czar Nicholas II of Russia. This singular day in [...]
CPWF recently published the fourth paper in its research for development series, entitled ‘Evolution of Agricultural Water Management in Rainfed Crop-Livestock Systems of the Volta Basin’. The paper presents findings of a comprehensive review of more than four decades of agricultural water management work in the Volta Basin and provides [...]
Three projects supported by the CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food provide the contents of a book published today. ‘The Nile River Basin: Water, Agriculture, Governance and Livelihoods’ provides unique and up-to-date insights on agriculture, water resources, governance, poverty, productivity, upstream-downstream linkages, innovations, future plans and their implications. It [...]
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