The residents of the Ganges and Mekong River deltas face serious challenges from rising sea levels, saltwater intrusion, pollution from upstream sources, growing populations, and infrastructure that no longer works as planned. In both deltas, scientists working for nearly two decades with communi...
CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems
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[River deltas: scaling up community-driven approaches to sustainable intensification]
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River deltas: scaling up community-driven approaches to sustainable intensification
Women play an increasingly greater role in agriculture. Ensuring that they have opportunities—equal to those of men—to participate in transforming agriculture is a prerequisite for sustainable intensification. Increased gender equity in agriculture is both a practical and a social justice issue: ...
CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems
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[Gender-equitable pathways to achieving sustainable agricultural intensification]
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Gender-equitable pathways to achieving sustainable agricultural intensification
Using groundwater for agricultural production has the potential to build resilience in food insecure regions of the world. Use of groundwater can boost agricultural production, improve rural incomes and strengthen farmers’ ability to withstand climate shocks and water variability. However, for gr...
CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems
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[Building resilience through sustainable groundwater use]
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Building resilience through sustainable groundwater use
Women play an increasingly greater role in agriculture. Ensuring that they have opportunities—equal to those of men—to participate in transforming agriculture is a prerequisite for sustainable intensification. Increased gender equity in agriculture is both a practical and a social justice issue: ...
CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems
,
[Gender-equitable pathways to achieving sustainable agricultural intensification]
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Gender-equitable pathways to achieving sustainable agricultural intensification
The CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE) has conducted innovative research in the upper watersheds of the Ganges, Mekong, Red and Nile river basins. WLE sought to identify how to improve people’s livelihoods in ways that are equitable, profitable and sustainable, while also ...
CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems
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[Upper river basin watersheds: sustainable, equitable and profitable interventions.]
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Upper river basin watersheds: sustainable, equitable and profitable interventions.
The CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE) has conducted innovative research in the upper watersheds of the Ganges, Mekong, Red and Nile river basins. WLE sought to identify how to improve people’s livelihoods in ways that are equitable, profitable and sustainable, while also ...
CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems
,
[Upper river basin watersheds: sustainable, equitable and profitable interventions]
,
Upper river basin watersheds: sustainable, equitable and profitable interventions
The residents of the Ganges and Mekong River deltas face serious challenges from rising sea levels, saltwater intrusion, pollution from upstream sources, growing populations, and infrastructure that no longer works as planned. In both deltas, scientists working for nearly two decades with communi...
CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems
,
[River deltas: scaling up community-driven approaches to sustainable intensification]
,
River deltas: scaling up community-driven approaches to sustainable intensification