The document provides an update on the CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food's (CPWF) science progress from May to October 2011. It summarizes early results from CPWF's six basin focal projects, media outreach efforts to share Phase 1 science findings, and plans to synthesize major findings from Phase 1 projects. It also discusses CPWF's integration into the new CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems, including maintaining CPWF's vision and partners' ownership through a new CPWF Partnership Agreement under the oversight of the new program.