Project title: Improving catchment and use efficiency of water for high-value dry season crops (SG506) Introduction In the driest regions of Ghana, the traditional system of excavating the farmlands to access water for post-rainy season farming leads to farmland degradation, inadequate water to meet cropping requirements, reduced farm sizes and [...]
Project title: Shallow groundwater irrigation in the White Volta Basin (PN65) Introduction Over the past years, recurrent droughts/spells or frequent floods have led to food insecurity and increasing poverty in the White Volta Basin (WVB) where formal irrigation benefits only a limited number of farmers. Hundreds of rain-fed smallholder farmers [...]
Project title: Basin Focal Project Volta (PN55) Introduction Inhabited by 19 million people of whom 70% are rural, the Volta River Basin crosses four agro-ecological zones and covers mostly Ghana and Burkina Faso, with small areas in Benin, Côte d’Ivoire, Mali and Togo. The basin economies are reliant on rain [...]
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 [...]
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Project Highlights The African Models of Transboundary Water Governance project brought together a diverse group of researchers, implementers, students and communities to help discover how local level natural resource management strategies could be scaled up to the transnational level. This approach or methodology was a clear example of ‘outside the [...]
Project title: Small multi-purpose reservoir ensemble planning (PN46) Introduction Small multi-purpose reservoirs are a widely used form of infrastructure for the provision of water including for domestic use, livestock and small-scale irrigation. Although reservoir ensembles store enough water to have a significant impact on the livelihoods of smallholders who use [...]
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: Safeguarding public health concerns, livelihoods and productivity in wastewater irrigated urban and periurban vegetable farming (PN38) Introduction Farmers growing vegetables in and around urban areas are meeting the increasing demand for food in many cities in developing countries. However, the quality of irrigation water used is poor due [...]
Project title: Improved fisheries productivity and management in tropical reservoirs (PN34) Introduction An ever-growing number of small, medium and large reservoirs are being built in the world for irrigation or hydro-power purposes. While some fishing activities take place on these water-bodies, the productivity of their fisheries is in many cases [...]
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