This post is a modified version of a longer project overview, which can be viewed here. In the Andean region, changes to society and to the environment are increasing competition and conflict over water. Population growth, globalization of trade, new food consumption patterns, ecosystem degradation, pollution, climate change, and urbanization […]
On a recent journey to French Guiana, I found myself wondering how such a place could benefit from some of the institutional and technical innovations CPWF project have identified. In many aspects, it reminded me of some of the river basins where we have worked; water is everywhere with multiple […]
A new study from the Volta highlights challenges and opportunities for gender-inclusive water management initiatives The Upper East Region of northern Ghana, located within the White Volta watershed, is primarily rural and agriculturally oriented, with a large female workforce. This region was one of the sites of CPWF’s Volta Basin […]
Innovation. The word certainly seems to have taken a place of prominence in the research-for-development community. But what does innovation really look like in practice? A new paper by social anthropologist Karen Greenough sets out to answer that question through the lens of the Challenge Program on Water and Food’s […]
Last year, twenty individuals met in Nairobi, Kenya and drew on their collective experiences to create 12 ‘practice briefs’ on innovation platforms in Africa. The briefs, which synthesize key learning and messages, are intended to help inform CGIAR and other research for development efforts on innovation platforms. The group developed […]
In 2011, the CPWF Innovation Fund was established with the goal of spurring innovation and catalyzing change in CPWF research for development projects by building capacity and supporting emerging and unanticipated opportunity. One of these projects was titled ‘Mainstreaming gender in the CPWF: Benchmarking and addressing immediate needs’. Learn more about […]
After ten years, the Challenge Program on Water and Food is completing its second and final phase at the end of 2013. Reflection on progress made, milestones reached and lessons learned is beginning in earnest. One of the issues open for reflection and discussion at this point is how Phase […]
The Basin Challenge is tool designed by CPWF-Mekong with support from Australian AID and ABC Science. The purpose of the game is to allow participants the opportunity to experience the challenges associated with developing a river basin. The game is played over 50 turns with each turn representing a year. […]
Understanding the basic relationships between rainfall, runoff, soil moisture and ground water level are vital for an effective and sustainable water resources planning and management activities. But so far there is no hydrological study in Meja watershed that aims to understand the watershed characteristics and runoff generation processes. This study was conducted to understand runoff […]
This paper calls attention to the importance of social cooperation in irrigation farming. It argues that a mere focus on the technical aspect of irrigation, disregarding its social aspects undermines the long-term benefits of irrigation to rural livelihoods. This assertion draws on lessons from small-irrigation practices in Fogera, in the Blue Nile Basin of Ethiopia, […]
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