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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

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]Gender-equitable pathways to achieving sustainable agricultural intensification

The increasing demand for solar-powered irrigation systems in agriculture has spurred a race for projects as it potentially offers a cost-effective and sustainable energy solution to off-grid farmers while helping food production and sustaining livelihoods. As a result, countries such as Morocco ...


Closas, AlvarRap., E.[Solar-based groundwater pumping for irrigation: Sustainability, policies, and limitations]Solar-based groundwater pumping for irrigation: Sustainability, policies, and limitations
Cofie, Olufunke O.Amede, Tilahun[Managing rainwater and small reservoirs in Sub-Saharan Africa]Managing rainwater and small reservoirs in Sub-Saharan Africa

Ever since the oil, financial and food crises of 2008, sub-Saharan Africa has witnessed a marked increase in large-scale investment in agricultural land. The drivers of this investment are varied and include growing food, water and energy insecurity as well as social and economic interests of inv...


Williams, Timothy O.Sidibe, Yoro[Can current land and water governance systems promote sustainable and equitable large-scale agricultural investments in sub-Saharan Africa?]Can current land and water governance systems promote sustainable and equitable large-scale agricultural investments in sub-Saharan Africa?

The UN recognition of a human right to water for drinking, personal and other domestic uses and sanitation in 2010 was a political breakthrough in states’ commitments to adopt a human rights framework in carrying out part of their mandate. This chapter explores other domains of freshwater governa...


Koppen, Barbara C.M. vanHellum, A.Mehta, L.Derman, B.Schreiner, B.[Rights-based freshwater governance for the twenty-first century: beyond an exclusionary focus on domestic water uses]Rights-based freshwater governance for the twenty-first century: beyond an exclusionary focus on domestic water uses
Mul, Marloes L.Ofosu, E. A.Mante, Y.Ghansah, BenjaminAnnor, F.O.Boateng-Gyimah, M.[Defining restoration flow targets to restore ecological functions and livelihoods in the lower Volta Basin]Defining restoration flow targets to restore ecological functions and livelihoods in the lower Volta Basin

Esilaba, Anthony O.Byalebeka, J.B.Nakiganda, AMubiru, SSsenyange, DDelve, Robert J.Mbalule, MNalukenge, G[Integrated nutrient management in Iganga District, Uganda: diagnosis by participatory learning and action research]Integrated nutrient management in Iganga District, Uganda: diagnosis by participatory learning and action research

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