Tilahun Amede, Nile Basin project leader is co-editor of a new book ‘Integrated Natural Resource Management in the Highlands of Eastern Africa: From Concept to Practice.’ It documents a decade of research, methodological innovation, and lessons learned in an eco-regional research-for-development program operating in the eastern African highlands, the African [...]
Various national and regional organizations in Ethiopia are engaged in natural resource management, particularly in land and water, but for the last 30 years there has been limited opportunity for them to share experiences, identify gaps and feed key insights to one another and crucially to policy-makers. Earlier this year, [...]
On 19 December 2011, the Nile Basin Development Challenge hosts the 2nd ‘National Platform meeting on land and water management in Ethiopia.’ The national platform intends to link local experiences with national planning, and open opportunities to engage with policy makers. While the National Platform meetings are expected to take [...]
One of the ‘learning to innovate’ sessions in the 2011 Third International Forum on Water and Food looked at experiences within the CPWF with multi-stakeholder Platforms (MSP) and Innovation Platforms (IP). The session started with a brief introduction, and then three presentations from Alan Duncan (ILRI/Nile – his presentation; a [...]
Speaking at the Launch of the Nile Basin Development Challenge program (29 September 2010), ILRI Director General Carlos Seré explains why ILRI is partnering in a program focused on improved water management in Ethiopia and the Nile Basin. He emphasized how the type of integrative science envisaged in this Program [...]
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: Conditions for sustainable adoption of water and moisture system innovations in Nile river basin: Case of Makanya watershed in Tanzania (SG503) Introduction The project objective is to enhance adoption of high potential interventions for increasing agricultural water productivity to improve adoption of agricultural water and moisture system innovations [...]
Project title: Demonstration and documentation of innovative market-based strategies to realize agricultural income through increased on-farm water productivity and market integration (SG502) Introduction In the Mekong River catchment of Svay Teap and Svay Chrum Districts in Svay Rieng Province, Cambodia, the project used the ‘Poverty Reduction through Irrigation and Smallholder [...]
Project title: Rice landscape management for raising water productivity, conserving resources, and improving livelihoods in upper catchments of the Mekong and Red River Basins (PN11) Introduction A complex subsistence-oriented smallholder farming system that relies on traditional practices of rice production often characterizes the upper tributary catchments of mainland Southeast Asia. [...]
Project title: Empowering farming communities in Northern Ghana with strategic innovations and productive resources in dryland farming (PN06) Introduction The mostly rural inhabitants of the Volta Basin in Northern Ghana inhabit one of the most food insecure areas in Ghana due to the relatively short rainy season and longer intervening [...]
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