In the Andes, CPWF works in nearly ten small river basins covering four countries: Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru. The people who live in these river basins are affected by numerous water-related development challenges. Land use changes affecting water use and quality have disproportionately impact some groups of people more than [...]
Last month in the city of Huaraz, Peru, the COMPANDES team held a scientific seminar to disseminate the project findings towards the Development of Benefit Sharing Mechanisms to improve management of water in the Santa river basin. The highly glaciated basin has a number of conflicts over water use and its dependence [...]
by Larry Harrington, CPWF Research Director We hear a lot about water scarcity. We hear that we are running out of fresh water, that food security is threatened, and that the grim consequences are already upon us. While there is some truth to this, it is easy to over-state the [...]
In honor of World Water Day, the CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food has released a new series of posters. The CPWF Water Dialogue Poster Series derives key messages from work conducted from Phase 1 of the program (2003-2008) and presents them in striking visual cartoons. The posters are [...]
How are people supposed to talk to each other if they don’t speak the same language? I had my first encounter with this question during the planning meetings for MK11’s consultation workshops in Ngoy district, Luang Prabang province. I was sitting at a table with staff members from Village Focus [...]
The International Water Management Institute-Tata Policy Research Program Annual Partners’ Meeting (ITP-APM 2012) got down to business last week in Anand, Gujarat. Researchers and partners discussed some of India’s most pressing water management problems. A child in China plays with a waterhose.Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons A key focus was groundwater [...]
CPWF recently published the fourth paper in its research for development series, entitled ‘Evolution of Agricultural Water Management in Rainfed Crop-Livestock Systems of the Volta Basin’. The paper presents findings of a comprehensive review of more than four decades of agricultural water management work in the Volta Basin and provides [...]
From 24th July through 2nd August, Karen Greenough made a long tour through southern Burkina and northern Ghana as part of her ethnographic research on innovations resulting from VBDC activities. She started on Tuesday with Fred Kizito and Lee Davelaar, who were gathering information for the Volta Scenarios and Storylines [...]
How do you promote better management of water from a reservoir that provides services to two independently managed, and rapidly growing, provinces? One CPWF Innovation Fund Project, entitled ‘Building Provincial Capacity to Understand the Water Demand Implications of Socio-Economic Development Plans in Central Viet Nam’ set out to answer that [...]
Director Alain Vidal made CPWF’s message clear at Stockholm World Water Week when he presented during a session Monday entitled “The Role of Water and Sanitation in Enhancing Resilience and Food Security.” Addressing a diverse audience representing organizations from the agricultural and sanitation water sectors, Dr. Vidal emphasized the fact that [...]
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