1. Water, Land and Ecosystems
A CGIAR Partnership
CGIAR Centers, FAO
Research, development,
knowledge partners
A Natural Resources Management
CGIAR Research Program (CRP5)

2. CRP5 Addresses Interrelated
Global Challenges
• Water Scarcity
• Land Degradation
• Loss of Ecosystem
Services
GOAL:
sustainably improve livelihoods, reduce poverty,
and ensure food security using research-based
solutions to water scarcity, land degradation, and
loss of ecosystem services.

3. Natural Resources Management – why
is it different/difficult?
• Responds to a changing set of drivers outside of
water or land sector
• Ecosystem services difficult to value
• Non-market economy
• Cross scale interactions
• Issues of ownership of land & water are complex
• Intuitional arrangements not always conducive to
NRM

4. Focus on 8 problem sets
Drivers:
X cutting:
Irrigation Energy
Governance
Resource Recovery
River Basins Subsidies
Ecosystems
Gender
Diets
Poverty
Rainfed …
New
Generation
Pastoral
Information

5. CRP5 Works Across Scales
LARGE BASIN
SMALL BASIN/ TRANSBOUNDARY
LANDSCAPE TO GLOBAL AGREEMENT LEVEL
CRP 5 SPACE
NATIONAL
SCALE POLICY
WATERSHED ISSUES
WATER
ALLOCATION
SOIL CONSORVATION
ENVIRONMENTAL
FARM PROTECTION
LOCAL
MGMT
PRACTICESE
FIELD
COMPLEXITY
OF
SOLUTIONS

6. Each location has a different problem set and impact pathway
Where CGIAR presently works on NRM

7. Engage in impact pathway
X cutting:
Irrigation
Governance
Resource Recovery
River Basins
Ecosystems
Gender
Poverty
Rainfed
New
Generation
Pastoral
Information, analysis, research based solutions GWP
Role
Policy , practices, institutions, processes, capacity

8. Multiple Paths to Impact
• Focus on clients - farmer and community
perspectives; different needs of women,
men, youth
• Regional integration – to solve local
problems
• Focal countries – for policy and investment
support
• Partnership networks
• Global and regional engagement
• Facilitating capacity building

9. CRP5 Partnership for Research and Impact
Universities National Implementers
Research Investors
Research Institute + + Farmers
systems
+ FAO
CGIAR Centers
GWP
Fundamental Research Research for Development Impact

10. What’s new
• Alignment of CG Centers work
• Better engagement with partners for impact
• Integration – science, scale, partners
• fosters innovation – bringing something new
to market

11. Developing the Proposal
Date Location Host
28-30 June Colombo, Sri Lanka IWMI
8 July Tashkent, Uzbekistan IWMI
28 July Nairobi, Kenya ILRI and CIAT
2 August Lima, Peru CONDESAN and CIP
2 August Delhi, India ICRISAT
3 August Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso AGRA and IWMI
6 August Bangkok, Thailand FAO
8 August Aleppo, Syria ICARDA
9 August Cali, Columbia CIAT and CONDESAN
10 August Lusaka, Zambia NEPAD and IWMI
On line consultations, plus design and writer’s
workshop in Colombo involving CGIAR and
partners – about 500 people involved

12. LARGE BASIN
TRANSBOUNDARY
TO GLOBAL AGREEMENT LEVEL
SMALL BASIN/ CRP 2 SPACE
LANDSCAPE NATIONAL
POLICY
ISSUES
CRP 5 SPACE
SCALE
WATERSHED
CRP 7 SPACE
FARM CRP 6 SPACE
CRP 1, 3, 4 SPACE
FIELD
FARMER STATE NATIONAL REGIONAL BODIES
COMMUNITY DEVPM’T PLANNERS POLICY GLOBAL CONVENTIONS
NGO IMPLEMENTORS INVESTORS
IMPACT
PARTNERS

13. Impact -200 million livelihoods improved in 20 years

14. Potential Beneficiaries
Irrigation – 200M, lower food prices, landless labor, more
income, better environment
Rainfed- 500M smallholders in Asia & Africa, more income,
better food security
Pastoral – 180M pastoralists – less vulnerability from secure land
and water access
Groundwater – 250M, reduced vulnerability to overdraft, better
use in high potential areas
Resource Recovery– 20 to 50M peri urban farmers, better
health, productivity income gains; 1 B consumers

15. Budget
• Combined work of CGIAR Centers totals about $78
million in this area
• FAO - $10M per year
• Startup – need funding for information systems,
M&E, gender & poverty, regional integration,
administration
• Over time – coherent project portfolio
• Strategy – an increasing proportion of additional
funding is for supporting partnerships