Project title: Associated cropping and enhanced rainwater harvesting to improve food security and sustainable livelihoods of peasant farmer associations (SG510) Introduction Recognising the potential of diverse sustainable agriculture as an alternative to the water crisis caused by monoculture production and desertification, this project promotes community investigation and quantifies benefits of [...]
Project title: Katalysis: Enabling endogenous potential for improved management and conservation of water resources in semi-arid Andean ecosystems (SG505) Introduction Katalysis is based on the premise that for rural people both access to water and their individual and collective capacities to manage it were essential to mobilizing biological resources and [...]
Project title: Socioeconomic and technical considerations to mitigate land and water degradation in the Peruvian Andes (PN70) Introduction Land and water degradation undermine agricultural productivity, contribute to high levels of poverty and food insecurity, and cause major problems for downstream users of land and water resources in the rural areas [...]
Project title: Andes Basin Focal Project (Andes BFP) (PN63) Introduction The Andes River Basin, in biophysical terms, is the most mountainous of the CPWF basins, has the greatest rainfall extremes, and the greatest spatial heterogeneity in climate, geology and soils. Also, the Andes region has greater inequality between the upper [...]
Project Preface – From the projects’ website: http://cpwfbfp.pbworks.com The Basin Focal Projects of the Challenge Program for Water and Food (CPWF) provide strategic insight of the links between water, food and poverty in river basins. Based on the best scientific analysis within ten River Basins these projects answer the following key [...]
Project title: Integrating knowledge from computational modeling with multi-stakeholder governance: Towards more secure livelihoods through improved tools for integrated river basin management (PN40) Introduction Multi-stakeholder governance structures have gained increasing importance for the management of water resources. These structures benefit from policy-relevant information about the bio-physical and the socio-economic parameters [...]
Project title: Multiple-Use Water Services (MUS) (PN28) Introduction As people take water from multiple sources and use it for multiple purposes: agriculture-based livelihoods, drinking, sanitation, cooking, personal hygiene, laundry and general cleaning as well as for many small-scale or domestic enterprises including livestock watering, horticulture, crop irrigation, tree growing, fisheries, [...]
Project title: Payment for environmental services as a mechanism for promoting rural development in the upper watersheds of the tropics (PN22) Introduction In the Andean watersheds spread across Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia, poor farmers cultivating steep or marginal lands are looking to augment their income with compensation for providing [...]
Project title: Sustaining inclusive Collective Action that Links across Economic and Ecological Scales in upper watersheds (SCALES) (PN20) Introduction Watersheds are inherently multi-scale where resource flows include both lateral flows of soil and water and “reverse flows” of economic, social and political resources often going from downstream to upstream in [...]
Project title: Quesungual Slash and Mulch Agroforestry System (QSMAS): Improving crop water productivity, food security and resource quality in the sub-humid tropics (PN15) Introduction Most agricultural areas especially on hillside slopes in the sub-humid tropics are facing increasingly frequent seasonal water scarcity and dry spells from a combination of inadequate [...]
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