Several key members of the Challenge Program on Water and Food (CPWF) community, among them the Management Team and Basin Leaders, met in February for a few days of quiet reflection. One of the topics discussed was related to our “global messages” (see box): what did we, as the CPWF, [...]
Radical overhaul of agriculture can create farms that enhance rather than degrade the world’s ecosystems, says new report CPWF and IWMI have developed a joint media release for Stockholm World Water Week on the importance of taking an Ecosystem Services Approach to how we manage and use water. The Ecosystem [...]
Background: Water valuation means expressing the value of water-related goods and services so as to inform sharing and allocation decisions. It covers both use and non-use values, extractive and in situ use values, and consumptive and non-consumptive use values. It features quantitative and qualitative approaches and considers relationships between interconnected [...]
Background: The prudent and sustainable use of reservoirs requires consideration of a large number of complex and inter-related issues and poses intricate technical and political challenges. Optimizing reservoir releases must take account of water uses and users up- and down-stream of the dam wall. There are a diverse range of [...]
Background: A majority of rural smallholder farmers in the Limpopo Basin still live in poverty, despite being within some of the most developed countries in sub-Saharan Africa. Low and highly variable rainfall combined with inadequate policy and investment context and inappropriate technology transfers limit sustainable transitions out of poverty. Researchers, [...]
The community of Cruz de Mayo, in the Ancash region of Peru will be awarded this year’s National Human Rights Award for its involvement in advocating for the protection of Lake Paron from hydropower development. Cruz de Mayo is a partner community of the Andean system of river basins‘ AN3 project. AN3 [...]
The Water Atlas of the Volta Basin presents a set of data collected or developed under a research program on water use in this cross-border river basin. These date reveal unique basin-scale characteristics that are key to better management of a resource on which inhabitants of the basin and the [...]
Interest and investments in small-scale irrigation in general, and in small dams in particular, have been cyclical and motivated by fluctuating priorities, discourses and changes in the broader polity. The early 1990s for example witnessed a boom in development investment and academic interest in small-scale irrigation, especially in sub-Saharan Africa. [...]
The first of two special issues related to outputs from the Basin Focal Project has been published in the Water International Journal http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=g929156149 This Special Issue has papers from nine of these basins: the Andes system of basins in South America; the Limpopo, the Niger, the Nile, and the Volta [...]
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 [...]
How Do We Get to Outcomes?: CPWF’s ApproachDecember 19, 2012, 9:45 am
Identifying Constraints to Groundwater Irrigation in the White VoltaJuly 23, 2012, 4:49 pmLearning from Laos: Hydropower Development and Affected CommunitiesMay 16, 2012, 1:37 am
Social Network Analysis: Capitalizing on Partner ConnectionsMay 14, 2012, 3:16 am
On Awareness and Its RaisingMay 13, 2012, 10:57 pm
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