Information can be beautiful as well as practical. CPWF Mekong Communications Coordinator Terry Clayton reviews a recent publication and finds it—beautiful. When was the last time you picked up a beautiful book? I don’t mean a book with beautiful pictures, there are lots of those. (…) Read the full story…
There are no translations available. The Challenge Program on Water and Food’s Volta Basin Development Challenge (VBDC) research began in December 2010. In December 2013, the Challenge Program will end and it will be integrated into the CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems programme. It is time to [...]
COMPANDES project delivers water management results in Peru Last month in the city of Huaraz, Peru, the COMPANDES team held a scientific seminar to disseminate the project findings towards the Development of Benefit Sharing Mechanisms to improve management of water in the Santa river basin. The highly glaciated basin has a number [...]
A call to transform irrigation programs: shifting the focus from increased food production toward becoming an integral component of poverty-reduction strategies. Irrigation interventions may have differential effects on different members in the household and in the community, such as irrigators, non-irrigators, children, and women. Photo: IWMI A recently released review paper [...]
Agricultural growth and industrialization together with the rapid growth of urbanization has not only impacted the availability of water but also put increased pressure on both food security and energy. Current and future freshwater demand could be met by harnessing the potential of rainfed systems by enhancing water use efficiency [...]
Is there a crisis of public knowledge? Learn more in this highly readable and informative report from the conference on Confronting Unequal Worlds of Development. The conference “Confronting Unequal Worlds of Development: Crisis of Public Knowledge, and the Transnational Social Science Agenda” was held at Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand. 25-26 [...]
The debate about farm size in Africa, kicked off by Stephen Carr’s blog post “African Agriculture: Does farm size really matter,” has sparked discussions far beyond the “size” issue. With over 100 comments generated on LinkedIn groups, we’d like to share some of the prominent points made with our larger [...]
Will 2013 be pinpointed as the year in which Africa’s ‘Green Revolution’ finally took root? It marks the tenth anniversaries of the 2003 Maputo Declaration and the resulting Africa-led Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP)—which aim to reverse decades of underinvestment in agriculture and eliminate hunger and poverty through agriculture, [...]
The Ethiopian highlands are losing many valuable tree and shrub species because of anthropogenic and climatic factors. The coverage of high value indigenous tree and shrub species has declined. The tree species that used to provide quality products and ecosystem services have become limited. As a result, there is increasing [...]
What ever happened to jatropha? Is the wonder biofuel that crashed back on the up? And should we care? Jatropha farmers in Senegal. Photo Credit: Treesftf on Flickr Last July, while visiting Liberia, I met a local man who said he was a “recruiter” of smallholder farmers to grow jatropha, [...]
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