Photo: cc: Michael Foley World Water Day, March 22 2013 is the UN International Year of Water Cooperation. Water is a crucial factor in improving food security, health and nutrition and livelihoods. Water management can be challenging in any context and factors such as climate change, urbanization and a lack [...]
The CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food just published a new report from the Nile Basin setting out ways to enhance rainwater management (RWM) development processes. In Ethiopia, considerable potential exists to enhance food production and rural livelihoods through better rainwater management – interventions which enable smallholder farmers to [...]
Alain Vidal, Director of the Challenge Program on Water and Food and member of the WLE Program Team, shares reflections from the launch of the “Get the solutions flowing” campaign on the eve of World Wetlands Day. A good introduction to World Wetlands Day in Rotterdam was paying 10€ to [...]
Catherine Pfeifer, Post-doc at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), is going back to Switzerland in late December. For the past three years, she was involved in the Nile Basin Development Challenge project (‘N3′) on ‘Targeting and scaling out of rainwater management systems‘. In [...]
The Nile Basin Development Challenge (NBDC) is entering its final year. By December 2013, all activities funded through the Challenge Program for Water and Food (CPWF) need to be complete. A planning exercise on 15 and 16 November brought the core partners together to re-arrange priorities around specific outcomes and [...]
Uganda’s ‘cattle corridor’, which makes up the northern third of the country, is among the most degraded areas in the upper Nile basin, following years of overgrazing and charcoal production. Repeated attempts have been made to reseed and restore the bare land without success, as grass seedlings are quickly eaten [...]
Three projects supported by the CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food provide the contents of a book published today. ‘The Nile River Basin: Water, Agriculture, Governance and Livelihoods’ provides unique and up-to-date insights on agriculture, water resources, governance, poverty, productivity, upstream-downstream linkages, innovations, future plans and their implications. It [...]
From November 5th to the 7th the ‘International Conference on Fresh Water Governance for Sustainable Development’ will be held in Central Drakensburg, South Africa. Organized by the Water Research Commission and the South African Department of Water Affairs, the conference will bring together policy makers, scientists, water managers and civil society to [...]
Sabine Douxchamps, Augustine Ayantunde and Jennie Barron at the sister Volta Basin Development Challenge just published a study of agricultural water management in rainfed crop-livestock systems of the Volta Basin (Burkina Faso and Ghana) that investigates the return of aid investments on water availability, food security and livelihoods. The authors [...]
ILRI’s Beth Cullen was recently interviewed by the USAID Feed the Future Agrilinks web site about innovation platforms and participatory video. Read the interview Watch the video: Read the full story…
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