Back from Stockholm World Water Week, which for its 22nd edition was focused for the first time on “water and food security”, I feel a combination of satisfaction and frustration. Satisfaction because our findings on sustainable intensification and diversification, as well as benefit-sharing, are at the cutting-edge of solutions being proposed to address [...]
Rainwater management practices are often promoted with little regard for the site-specific biophysical characteristics and local socio-economic and institutional environments. To promote rainwater management more successfully, a paradigm change towards promotion of location-specific interventions is needed. Beyond biophysical suitability, successful implementation crucially depends on farmers’ willingness to adopt a practice. [...]
In celebration of the events in Rio de Janeiro, over the next two weeks CPWF will be providing a series of posts on Rio+20 progress. The CPWF-Andes lead partner, CONDESAN, is hosting the Mountain Pavilion at Rio+20 and the CGIAR is hosting a major discussion on June 18th along with [...]
One of the most surprising aspects of the Planet Under Pressure (PUP) conference has been the general agreement that technical solutions alone will not bring about the desired changes needed to address the different problems facing global systems. Many leading scientists at the conference this week have called for more ‘dialogue’, [...]
CPWF will be playing a prominent role at Stockholm World Water Week in 2012 (August 26-31, 2012). This year’s event is focused on food security. It is one of a number of major 2012 international events that CPWF will be participating in, and a key one where our researchers can directly [...]
Farmers at Bawjiase in the Central region used to be proud of their green and high yielding farms during the dry season but today the story is different and most of them are out of business.
Rainwater management strategies represent a key climate smart agriculture approach centered on capturing, storing, managing and increasing productivity of water for climate change adaptation. It ensures rehabilitation of landscapes and sustains crop and livestock production during prolonged dry periods, in addition to mitigating flood events. This is a smart strategy [...]
This first appeared in the Agriculture Rural Development Day Blog by Michael Victor, CPWF Africa is going through its own agriculture revolution. According to studies from the CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food, Africa can produce 3-4 times more food through improved agriculture water management practices. The learning event [...]
Blog post by: Michael Victor. This blog first appeared in the Agriculture Rural Development Day Blog (http://www.agricultureday.org/blog/page/5/) A couple of weeks ago I was talking to some Lao colleagues about the CGIAR Challenge Program for Water and Food’s Learning Event on Rainwater management at ARDD and the concept of climate [...]
Background: This project helps the BDC projects conduct quality, coherent and problem-oriented research that will contribute to beneficial change in the basin. Therefore, the success of the Project depends not only on its own project team but also excellent cooperation with the other projects in the BDC. The Project and [...]
Outcomes are nice, but what about measuring them?March 12, 2013, 9:20 am
2012 End of the Year Director’s BlogDecember 20, 2012, 7:19 am
Rebutting extremism: a comment on the debate surrounding the Xayaburi Dam in LaosNovember 12, 2012, 2:19 pm
Closing the income gap: Reflections from World Water WeekSeptember 5, 2012, 12:41 am
The Goats that Save Water: Linking Water, Food Security and Poverty ReductionAugust 20, 2012, 7:39 pm
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