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, […]
CPWF-Ganges held a reflection workshop in Dhaka on November 12 and 13 to discuss key findings and messages emerging from the program. CPWF’s projects in the Ganges focus on issues of concern to communities living in the brackish water coastal zones of Bangladesh and India. The Ganges coastal zone is […]
Water is essential for all human life and the ecosystems that support us. Water is a fundamental human right – socially, economically and culturally important. Communities in the Andes are facing three major water challenges as they fight to reduce poverty: • Widespread land degradation, water pollution and climate […]
CPWF-Andes has recently launched a new website to help increase awareness and understanding of benefit-sharing mechanisms (BSM). The website provides information about the CPWF-Andes projects, an ever expanding resource library, as well as a learning center for those interested in implementing benefit-sharing mechanisms. It is available in Spanish and English. Benefit-sharing […]
Fogera District is endowed with diverse natural resources. It has huge potential water sources which are suitable for irrigation during the dry season for the production of horticultural crops mainly vegetables. However, there is a great market problem in the area associated with the nature of horticultural crops such as perishability and seasonality in production. […]
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