Key findings:
• From the PGIS survey, six of the interventions (two small reservoirs, earth bunds, stone bunds, treadle pump, water pumps and shallow wells) were identified with the help of key stakeholders to the study.
• Increment of farm...
Granaham, Patricia
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[Targeting and scaling up of Agricultural Water Management interventions in the White Volta Basin, Ghana. ]
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Targeting and scaling up of Agricultural Water Management interventions in the White Volta Basin, Ghana.
Perpetual Yirenkyiwaa, Diabene
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[Targeting and Scaling-‐up of Agricultural Water Management Interventions in the Black Volta Basin -‐ Ghana]
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Targeting and Scaling-‐up of Agricultural Water Management Interventions in the Black Volta Basin -‐ Ghana
Key findings:
The research revealed the following key things about agriculture and agricultural water; that dry season gardening is considered by the indigenes as one of the means by which poverty and transitional (seasonal) hunger can be red...
Innovation seems to be the lead buzz-word of the 2010 decade, a must for funding proposals. In this report, to go beyond buzz words and dictionary definitions, I try to tell stories of change and innovation within the Volta Basin Development Challenge, or CPWF-Volta, of CGIAR’s Challenge Program ...
Greenough, Karen Marie
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[Stories of Change and Innovation in the Volta Basin Development Challenge Program]
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Stories of Change and Innovation in the Volta Basin Development Challenge Program
Phase II of the CGIAR Challenge Program for Water and Food (CPWF) is a multi-institutional and inter-disciplinary research for development initiative focused on increasing the resilience of social and ecological systems through better water management for food production.Phase II in the Ganges Ba...
This research report is based on the project on Wetlands, Livelihoods and Environmental Security and
the Sustainable management of Inland Wetlands in Southern Africa: a livelihoods and ecosystem
approach projects. The projects were supported by the CGIAR´s Challenge Programme on Water and
Food (C...
El Módulo académico de capacitación virtual sobre los escenarios de cambio climático en Honduras fue desarrollado para el proyecto de la Tercera Comunicación de Cambio Climático en Honduras (3CNCCH) ante la Comisión Marco de las Naciones Unidas sobre Cambio Climático (CMNUCC).
El módulo y los es...
Córdoba Sánchez, Juana Marcela
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Navarro-Racines, Carlos E.
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Llanos-Herrera, Lizeth
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Obando, Diego
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Monserrate, Fredy
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[Módulo académico de capacitación virtual: Escenarios de cambio climático en Honduras]
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Módulo académico de capacitación virtual: Escenarios de cambio climático en Honduras
Semi-arid conditions that prevail in the Limpopo basin in general and Zimbabwe in particular emphasise the
importance of water storage. In this respect small reservoirs play a critical role in sustaining rural livelihoods.
However, the management of small reservoirs in Zimbabwe is negatively affe...
Mulengera, Patrick-M. Bahal’okwibale
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Manzungu, Emmanuel
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Kileshye Onema, Jean-Marie
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[ICT-Based Identification and Characterisation of Small Reservoirs in the Limpopo River Basin in Zimbabwe]
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ICT-Based Identification and Characterisation of Small Reservoirs in the Limpopo River Basin in Zimbabwe
For the 20 million people whose livelihood directly depends on land and water resources in upper catchments of the Mekong and the Red River basins, improving the productivity of rice could help to break the cycle of poverty, food insecurity and environmental degradation that characterizes the a...
Pandey, S.
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[Guiding the sustainable management of rice landscapes in the uplands]
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Guiding the sustainable management of rice landscapes in the uplands