This project is about livelihoods, and how they can be improved through reservoir management for multiple uses and users.It is about developing strategies for optimizing the benefits of WSI and increasing the ways in which water can be utilized for the benefit of the poor.
This project will expl...
With mixed crop-livestock systems projected to remain the main providers of food in the coming decades, opportunities exist for smallholders to participate and benefit from emerging crop and livestock markets in the Volta Basin. This project intends to identify, evaluate, adapt, and disseminate b...
Ayantunde, Augustine A.
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Puskur, Ranjitha
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Gerard, Bruno G.
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Valbuena, Diego
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Asse, Rainer
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[V2: Integrated management of rainwater for crop-livestock agroecosystems]
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V2: Integrated management of rainwater for crop-livestock agroecosystems
The project focuses on access and control of water/land, and the associated management and governance mechanisms. L4 seeks to provide the people and governments of the Limpopo Basin with:
1. A package of ways to better understand and organise access rights to water for multiple uses from farm lev...
Despite hosting some of the most developed sub Saharan countries, a majority of rural smallholder farmers in the Limpopo basin still live in poverty. The challenge of low and highly variable rainfall together with inadequate technology transfers, inadequate policy and investment context all act t...
Barron, Jennie
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Chadwick, Matthew
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Cinderby, Steve
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Kemp Benedict, Eric
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Kongo, Victor
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Noel, Stacey
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[L1: Targeting and scaling out]
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L1: Targeting and scaling out
This project focuses on the governance structures and mechanisms needed to enable, support and maintain successful WSI optimization strategies.The latter research relates not only to individual reservoirs, but also to cascades, including transboundary cascades. It draws on other Mekong BDC projec...
The Coordination Project V5 will ensure coherence amongst the other 4 Volta BDC Projects, manage their interdependence and data protocols in such a way to allow smooth running of the program and also monitor and evaluate the quality of research outputs. Through communication strategies to be deve...
Project G5 is the “Coordination and Change-Enabling” project for the Ganges Basin Development Challenge. The Project G5 objective is “To enhance impacts in Bangladesh and India through stakeholder participation, policy dialogue and effective coordination among other Government, NGO’s, CGIAR and d...
Integrated rainwater management strategies combine technologies, policies and institutions. Work in this project will aim to integrate land and water management, crop component technology, crop management, crop livestock systems, pastoral systems and even agroforestry systems so as to raise produ...
V3 project focuses on integrated management options at local scale for small reservoirs (SR), in a multiple use context. Integrated management of SR can aim at several objectives: (i) perpetuating infrastructures, obvious condition for socio-agro-ecosystem durability; (ii) protecting and if neces...
Jamin, Jean-Yves
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Cecchi, P.
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Poussin, Jean-Christope
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Fusillier, J.L.
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[V3: Integrated Management of Small Reservoirs for Multiple Uses]
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V3: Integrated Management of Small Reservoirs for Multiple Uses
Agricultural intensification of rainfed agriculture (Demeke et al, 1996)– especially of the dominant crop-livestock systems in the Blue Nile basin, management of the natural resource base and poverty alleviation have long been the targets of a vast array of research and development initiatives in...
Amede, Tilahun
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Duncan, Alan J.
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Ayele, Seife
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Njuki, Jemimah
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[N5: On coordination and multi-stakeholder platforms]
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N5: On coordination and multi-stakeholder platforms