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Who is the Mekong? An Exhibition by Ian Taylor
Who is the Mekong? World class photographer, Ian Taylor, tries to answer the question here. Read the original
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Freshwater Governance Conference November 5-7, South Africa
From November 5th to the 7th the ‘International Conference on Fresh Water Governance for Sustainable Development’ will be held in Central Drakensburg, South Africa. Organized by the Water Research...
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Companion Modelling Part 2: starting with community concerns to achieve...
Part 2: The goal of this mini-blog series is to document the participatory process of a community modelling project taking place in the Mekong. Funded through a CPWF Research into Use grant, the...
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Communal grazing land management in Fogera: Lessons from innovation platform...
As part of the Nile Basin Development Challenge, local Innovation Platforms (IP) have been formed in three sites in the Blue Nile Basin of Ethiopia to improve approaches to rain water management. It is...
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Gender training continues in Bangladesh
The second series of trainings on gender for the Ganges Basin Development Challenge program was held on the 23rd and 24th of January 2013 in Khulna, Bangladesh. The event enabled a lively exchange of...
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Digital Stories: a creative way of capturing and communicating research
Digital storytelling refers to short films composed of digitized still and moving images, sound and text. This is a highly effective way of presenting compelling stories in an engaging format. Digital...
View ArticleRhetoric versus realities: A diagnosis of rainwater management development...
Rhetoric versus realities: A diagnosis of rainwater management development processes in the Blue Nile Basin of Ethiopia Ludi, E.; Belay, A.; Duncan, A.; Snyder, K.; Tucker, J.; Cullen, B.; Belissa, M.;...
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Rhetoric versus realities: Rainwater management development processes in the...
The CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food just published a new report from the Nile Basin setting out ways to enhance rainwater management (RWM) development processes. In Ethiopia, considerable...
View ArticleListening to Lao Women Fishers in Mekong water dialogue
Women fishers from six villages in southern Lao PDR brainstorm gaps and solutions to expand their participation in village fisheries in an IUCN workshop held in Attapeu in February 2013. Aimed at...
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Rainwater management for resilient livelihoods: Integrated termite management...
Integrated termite management (ITM) can help rehabilitate degraded rangelands, enhance agricultural production and restore agro-ecosystem health in East Africa. Effective ITM requires a balanced mix of...
View ArticleIn Washington, ‘Mekong Days’ Puts River in Focus
Advocacy groups, environmentalists and policy-makers have wrapped up five days of events surrounding Mekong River issues in Washington. “Mekong Days,” a series of talks, films and other forums that...
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A brief on Innovation Platforms in the Nile Basin Development Challenge (NBDC)
Presented by Beth Cullen, Zelalem Lema, Aberra Adie and Mulugeta Lemenih on the Training of Trainers (ToT) on the use of Livelihoods Characterization/ Benchmarking Tool (SLATE), Jeldu, Ethiopia, 1-5...
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Tree growing in the highlands of Ethiopia: Key issues to consider
The Ethiopian highlands are losing many valuable tree and shrub species because of anthropogenic and climatic factors. This brief, co-produced by the Nile Basin Development Challenge and the Africa...
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Livestock–water interactions: The case of Gumara Watershed in the upper Blue...
Presented by Mengistu Alemayehu at ILRI, Addis Ababa, 18 April 2013
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Putting Water Issues in Perspective: CPWF Water Dialogue Posters to Spark Debate
Water problems are serious, complex and multi-faceted but not impossible to comprehend. Solutions may not be simple, but they are attainable. A set of water dialogue posters was recently released by...
View ArticleA Glimpse From the Field: A Ganges Study Tour
A Ganges Basin Development Challenge field trip visited project sites in the southern part of Bangladesh from Oct 31 to Nov 05, 2012. Some of the focused activities were related to varietal trial,...
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Volta capitalisation workshop: time to reap what we’ve sown
The Challenge Program on Water and Food’s (CPWF) Volta Basin Development Challenge (VBDC) research began in December 2010. In December 2013, the (CPWF) will end and it will be integrated into the CGIAR...
View ArticleCall for Abstracts- Nexus 2014: Water, Food, Climate and Energy Conference
The Water Institute at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will host the Nexus 2014: Water, Food, Climate and Energy Conference on March 3-7. The Conference will bring together researchers...
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Making Our Research Relevant to the People That Matter in the Volta and Niger...
The CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE) is taking its first step toward an integrated approach for research and development. At the end of May, WLE will hold the Volta and Niger...
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CPWF 10 years of R4D for water & food security ANU
Presentation made to the French-Australian Forum on Water and Land Management “Food and water security shaping land-use futures” on CPWF 10-year achievements with a focus on the Ganges and Mekong basins.
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