Project title: Participatory Action Research: Increasing water use efficiency in rice using principles of System of Rice Intensification (SRI) and green mulch in Northeast Thailand (SG504) Introduction Rice production in Northeast Thailand contributes more than 55% of the total Thai rice production. However, it is severely constrained by lack of [...]
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: Participatory water resource planning and development for economic sufficiency through learning alliance approach in the northeast of Thailand (SG501) Introduction Until recently, integrated water resource management within government sectors was primarily planned at watershed level with little emphasis on community and household levels. The approaches have faced wide [...]
Project title: Commune agroecosystem analysis to support decision making for water allocation for fisheries and agriculture in the Tonle Sap wetland system (PN71) Introduction Fisheries and farming systems are closely interlinked in Cambodia and the preservation and enhancement of both systems, and the contributions that these can make to the [...]
Project title: Improving Mekong water resources investment and allocation choices (PN67) Introduction The quality of life in the Mekong region will be improved with wise choices about sharing, developing and managing water to produce food and energy, and to maintain vital ecosystems. PN67 was a key, collaborative activity of the [...]
Project title: Mekong Basin Focal Project: Synthesis report (PN58) Introduction The Mekong River Basin is extraordinarily rich in ecological biodiversity and provides ecosystem services including fishing, farming and grazing for maintaining peoples’ livelihoods. Water governance and equitable sharing of benefits especially for poorer sections of the population is a key [...]
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 Preface, Research Highlights and Project outputs will be made available as soon as possible.
Project title: Enhancing multi-scale Mekong water governance (PN50) Introduction In the Mekong River Basin, under-scrutinized and over simplified policy narratives support many water governance issues. In fisheries, for example, there is an established narrative of crisis for the region’s fisheries that underpins much policy, research and debate. Although evidence about [...]
Project title: Community-based fish culture in irrigation systems and seasonal floodplains (PN35) Introduction Fish harvesting in the reservoirs and canals of irrigation systems are important sources of protein and livelihoods for the poor and landless households. Floodplain aquaculture represents an alternative use of floodplain resources that has the potential to [...]
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