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 [...]
CPWF’s Project V1, “Targeting and Scaling Out”, develops a decision support tool, a Bayesian model that should facilitate targeting for Agricultural Water Management (AWM) interventions. In other words, the model will help decision–makers identify potential sites to introduce potentially successful AWM interventions for small farming systems based on assessment of [...]
Many people would have differing views on participatory monitoring of rainfall records by farmers in rural West Africa. For some, farmers themselves may not care about it as they may not understand the usefulness of partaking in the process; and for others even if farmers are willing to do so [...]
From 24th July through 2nd August, Karen Greenough made a long tour through southern Burkina and northern Ghana as part of her ethnographic research on innovations resulting from VBDC activities. She started on Tuesday with Fred Kizito and Lee Davelaar, who were gathering information for the Volta Scenarios and Storylines [...]
There are no translations available. Returning to the North of Ghana Three days, 1100kms and two border crossings… this was the field trip facing the VSS team as we set off to explore V3 and V2 sites in Southern Burkina Faso and the Upper West of Ghana recently. It certainly [...]
The Volta Basin Development Challenge (VBDC) looks at integrated rainwater and small reservoirs management in the Volta Basin to contribute to increased livelihoods and poverty reduction for the rural poor in Northern Ghana and Burkina Faso (BF). The five research-for-development projects of the VBDC have been working in synergy towards that [...]
There are no translations available. Next Steps: By Fred Kizito The Volta Storylines and Scenarios (VSS) Project has generated interesting discussions over the last few months. Given the short project time frame and original proposed scope of the project, it will not be possible for the project to convey all [...]
There are no translations available. Tamale and surrounding communities Our first field trip as part of the Volta Storylines and Scenarios project took us to Tamale where we had the opportunity to visit and hear from a number of communities about the issues they face with crop production and livestock [...]
One of the VBDC projects, V1, is on Targeting and Scaling out of successful Agriculture water management (AWM) interventions in the basin. The V1 project objective is to develop an evidence and knowledge-based tool to assess and map the likelihood that a given intervention will be successful in given locations, [...]
The CPWF V4 project ,Sub-basin management and governance of rainwater and small reservoirs project, is an action-research project that aims at supporting Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) policies and initiatives in Burkina Faso and in Ghana (action component). Doing so, it interrogates the multi-level processes and hypothesis that underpin the [...]
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