Presentation by GWP Chair Dr Letitia A Obeng at the conference "Water Security, Risk and Society", 16-18 April, 2012 at St Hugh's College, University of Oxford, UK
Presentation by GWP Chair Dr Letitia A Obeng at the conference "Water Security, Risk and Society", 16-18 April, 2012 at St Hugh's College, University of Oxford, UK
http://www.gwp.org/en/gwp-in-action/Events/Water-Security-Risk-and-Society/
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1. Managed futures have achieved strong long-term performance of over 7,000% compared to 6,000% for stocks and 5,000% for international stocks since 1980, exhibiting low correlation to traditional assets.
2. Adding managed futures to a portfolio can help diversify beyond stocks and bonds, reduce overall volatility, and increase returns while decreasing risk.
3. Studies show portfolios that include a 20% allocation to managed futures achieved higher returns with reduced volatility compared to portfolios consisting only of stocks and bonds.
Philadelphia House Price Indices, 2011 Q1
Philadelphia’s Decline in House Values Slows Significantly in Q1 . . . House prices decline 1.3% in 2011 Q1.
Following several consecutive quarters of sharp price declines, the Philadelphia housing market appeared to have tapped the brakes this past winter.
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2. Adding managed futures to a portfolio can help diversify beyond stocks and bonds, reduce overall volatility, and increase returns while decreasing risk.
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This document discusses opportunities to scale up investments for water security and climate resilience in Africa. It describes how the Water Climate and Development Programme (WACDEP) is supporting regional development and transboundary cooperation across several river basins in Africa. WACDEP is also supporting national processes like integrating water issues into national climate strategies. The document outlines some of WACDEP's projects that are building community resilience and enhancing climate resilience. It discusses opportunities to scale up investments in Africa through investment planning processes and facilities. Lastly, it discusses lessons learned on scaling up and proposes establishing think tanks to support better project development and exploring innovative financing mechanisms.
Water for Development and Development for Water - Realizing the New SDG's VisionGlobal Water Partnership
Mohamed Ait Kadi presented at the SWWW2015 conference on realizing the vision of the new UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) related to water. He argued that development strategies must consider water's role in economic growth, social wellbeing, and environmental sustainability. He outlined a conceptual framework showing the dynamics between water security and sustainable growth. Achieving the vision of SDG #6 on water will require governments to take a leadership role in water resources management, investing in sequenced projects combining institutions, information systems, and infrastructure to manage water and risks, and overcoming knowledge gaps in vulnerable countries.
This document discusses how large-scale land acquisitions could impact transboundary water management. It notes that water is often not explicitly mentioned in land agreements but any use of water on acquired lands could affect shared river basins. The document examines cases in the Niger and Nile River basins and concludes that principles for responsible investment must acknowledge water needs and sustainable use to help regulate impacts on transboundary waters.
Womens empowerment and increased food security through increased access to la...Global Water Partnership
1) The organization Swadhina worked to empower women in Jharkhand, India through increased access to land and water resources. They formed women's committees to oversee activities and identify key issues of water, land rights, and women's positions.
2) To address water challenges, they constructed irrigation boxes and desilted tanks to improve water storage. They encouraged sustainable farming practices. For land, they reclaimed unused land and introduced new crop varieties. They gave women possession certificates for resources to establish land rights.
3) These interventions improved food security, economic conditions, and women's leadership roles. Women gained confidence through skills training and decision-making power over resources. Community development minimized migration from the area
This document discusses the need for coordinated governance of land and water resources that places people at the center. It argues that people have holistic perspectives on natural resources that support their livelihoods. Coordinated governance is needed to address issues like growing competition for water resources and ensuring access for all. Water constituencies can learn from land constituencies' focus on marginalized people, customary rights, and global rights-based dialogue. The document calls for voluntary guidelines that frame land and water tenure through joint people-centered processes respecting customary entitlements and human rights to resources.
Responding to the global food security challenge through coordinated land and...Global Water Partnership
The Yacambu-Quíbor Project in Venezuela aims to transfer water from the Yacambu River watershed to the Quíbor valley to increase irrigation and agricultural production. The Quíbor valley has highly fertile land but lacks sufficient water, relying on groundwater extraction. The project would build a dam on the Yacambu River and tunnel to carry 330 million cubic meters per year to the valley. Key strategies include reinforcing sustainable irrigation practices, exploring equitable water distribution, and establishing institutions and policies to regulate groundwater use and protect water resources long term.
This document summarizes a land and water workshop held in Ethiopia from June 15-16, 2015 that took a rights-based approach to land and water governance in Africa. It discusses Oxfam's work on women's land rights, land tenure governance, responses to large-scale land investments, and engagement with partners like the African Union. It also outlines Oxfam's Global Water Governance Program focusing on the Mekong, Indus, and Limpopo river basins, and challenges in the Limpopo basin like unequal water access. Oxfam's solutions for the Limpopo include capacity building, linking communities, documenting best practices, and influencing policies to achieve more inclusive water governance.
Links between land use and groundwater - governance provisions and management...Global Water Partnership
The document discusses the links between land use and groundwater, noting that while there is a causal chain from need for resources to land use change to groundwater impacts, these links are not deterministic. It provides examples of how land use planning can address groundwater quality and quantity through techniques like limiting land use in hydrogeologically defined zones. Governance instruments at national, regional, and local levels can help implement these techniques through policies, planning, and regulatory frameworks, though there are also legal, institutional, and economic obstacles.
Just in time chances for a holistic approach for land and water governanceGlobal Water Partnership
1. The document discusses the Cisadane Watershed Multistakeholders Forum in Indonesia and RMI's involvement in promoting a holistic approach to watershed management in the area.
2. It describes RMI's projects on river and biodiversity conservation in the watershed since 2009 and their role in facilitating the watershed forum since 2011.
3. A key benefit of the forum and holistic approach is that it allows different stakeholders to have input, acknowledges their different needs, and leads to more comprehensive management plans that address issues like land rights and education.
Food security exists when all people have reliable physical, social, and economic access to sufficient nutritious food to live an active and healthy life. Food security has three key pillars - availability, which examines if coordination of land and water governance improves food availability; access, which looks at if systems and policies enable access to available food; and utilization, which considers if acquired food can be properly used. Any assessment of food security must consider the specific context.
The document summarizes the implementation of the AU Assembly Declaration on land issues in Africa. It discusses Africa's commitments to land governance including frameworks, guidelines, and declarations adopted between 2009-2014. It reflects on the 2014 Land Conference in Africa, noting the need to translate frameworks into benefits at the local level and empower communities. Going forward, it emphasizes advocacy, capacity building, partnerships, and institutionalizing the conference to set a common research and policy agenda on African land issues.
Are current land and water governance systems fit for purpose in promoting su...Global Water Partnership
This document summarizes the results of a study on whether current land and water governance systems in sub-Saharan Africa are suitable for promoting sustainable and equitable large-scale agricultural investments. The study analyzed systems in 6 countries and found that in all countries, land and water are governed separately without coordination. Within countries, multiple inconsistent property rights regimes exist. The study also found a lack of clarity and enforcement of water access and use rights for investments. It concludes that coordinated land and water governance systems are needed that recognize all rights, have clear planning, pricing, and dispute resolution, and improve legal and institutional reforms and monitoring.
Ecosystem services mapping as a framework for integrated natural resource man...Global Water Partnership
This document discusses integrated natural resource management in South Africa. It notes that while South Africa has comprehensive environmental laws and increasing budgets for management, assessments show many ecosystems are threatened. This is due to a lack of holistic planning, failure to consider resource value, poor coordination, and inadequate local capacity. The document proposes using an ecosystem services approach to integrate natural systems, social needs, and economic factors. It presents a case study applying this framework in UThukela District through tools like social simulation, scenario analysis, and economic incentives to match interventions with drivers of environmental change. Key to success are effective stakeholder consultation, institutional coordination, and an appropriate governance structure.
The document discusses agricultural irrigation development in Burkina Faso. It notes that Burkina Faso has developed over 42,973 hectares of irrigated land as of 2013, up from 13,043 hectares in 2000. The irrigation techniques discussed include major irrigation schemes near dams covering over 1,000 hectares each, medium schemes from 20-100 hectares, and small-scale irrigation under 100 hectares using various water sources. Crops grown include rice as well as dry season gardening. The development of irrigated agriculture is aimed to increase food production and farmers' incomes in Burkina Faso.
This document discusses the need for coordinated governance of land and water resources to address food security challenges. As population and demand for food increases, business as usual approaches to managing land and water separately will lead to crossing planetary boundaries for water use and loss of agricultural land. Coordinated governance considers land and water as an integrated system and establishes interrelations in their management at various scales from local to national to regional levels. This helps overcome barriers like sectors working in isolation, improves resource use efficiency, and leads to more coherent policies that secure access to both land and water for improved food production.
Community/farmers-led land and water governance - An experience from NepalGlobal Water Partnership
This document discusses community-led land and water governance experiences in Nepal. It finds that farmer-managed irrigation systems irrigate 70% of agricultural land and produce 40% of Nepal's food. However, private land ownership and control of irrigation systems by government bureaucracies have negatively impacted small farmers and food security. The experience of CSRC shows that by supporting land rights and establishing people's organizations, farmers in Nepal have successfully developed local frameworks to manage land and water resources, diversified production, and increased yields over 5 times through small-scale, community-led irrigation projects.
Bioenergy large scale agriculture investments in africa - food security pers...Global Water Partnership
1. The document discusses large scale investments in agriculture in Africa for food and biofuel crops, and how this can impact food security. It examines the opportunities and risks of growing non-food bioenergy crops as part of land use systems in sub-Saharan Africa.
2. The FAO's Bioenergy and Food Security approach is presented as a way to design sustainable bioenergy policies that contribute to agricultural development and food and energy security. Case studies of the approach in Tanzania, Malawi, and other countries are provided.
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Bioenergy large scale agriculture investments in africa - food security pers...
Presentation by GWP Chair Dr Letitia A Obeng at the conference "Water Security, Risk and Society", 16-18 April, 2012 at St Hugh's College, University of Oxford, UK
1. The case of the water insecure: building
a national, regional and global coalition
Dr. Letitia A. Obeng
Chair
Global Water Partnership
3. Cooperation is crucial!
Water CC
Food Finance
Energy Conflicts
Problems are interconnected
Mohamed AIT KADI GWP/TEC
4. Zimbabwe:
rainfall
and
GDP
growth
15.0 3.0
2.0
Variability in Rainfall (Meter)
10.0
Real GDP growth (%)
1.0
5.0
0.0
-1.0
0.0
1979
1980
1981
1982
1983
1984
1985
1986
1987
1988
1989
1990
1991
1992
1993
-2.0
-5.0
Real GDP grow th (%) -3.0
Variability in Rainfall (Meter)
-10.0 -4.0
Years
Correla7on
between
GDP
and
Rainfall
in
Zimbabwe
(Source:
David
Grey
)
11. The volatility in food prices in 2008
should be treated as a warning sign of
what is to come!
Riots
Mohamed AIT KADI GWP/TEC
12. The age of consequences
Increasing food insecurity
More competition over water resources
Migration
Difficulties of supplying cities
State failures
International conflicts
Mohamed AIT KADI GWP/TEC
18. We need to learn from each other
Water CC
Food Finance
Energy Conflicts
Problems are interconnected
Mohamed AIT KADI GWP/TEC
19. Water Security
Vital for a better future in which:
• there is enough water for people’s social and economic
development and for ecosystems.
• the world is better able to harnesses water's productive
power and minimize the impact of its destructive force.
20. Index includes: access to
improved drinking water and
sanitation; the availability of
renewable water and the
reliance on external supplies;
the relationship between
available water and supply
demands; and the water
dependency of each country's
economy.
21. UN Water Review of IWRM Planning
• 125 countries reviewed
• 64% of countries have development plans
• 34% of these plans are advanced in implementation
22. Building Water Security through the IWRM
• IWRM is the means to an end, an approach, a set of tools
• Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) is a process
which promotes the coordinated development and management
of water, land and related resources in order to maximise
economic and social welfare in an equitable manner, without
compromising the sustainability of vital ecosystems and the
environment
23. Geography
Resources endowment/
variability
Trade
Democracy & Governance
Power asymmetries
Diplomatic relations
Political regimes
Colonial heritages….
Mohamed AIT KADI GWP/TEC
24. Opportunities for Cooperation - River
Type of Cooperation The Challenge The Opportunities
Increasing the benefits to Degraded water quality, Improved water quality, river
the river watersheds, wetlands, and flow characteristics, soil
biodiversity conservation, biodiversity
and overall sustainability
Increasing benefits from Increasing demands for Improved WRM (Agri
the river water +hydrop) flood-drought
management, navigation,
environmental conservation,
water quality and recreation
Reduced costs because Tense regional relations and Coop& Dev < Dispute/
of the river political economy impacts conflict, food/ energy
selfsufficiency > security, ..
Increasing benefits Regional fragmentation Integration of regional
beyond the river infrastructure, markets and
trade
C.W. Sadoff, D. Grey / Water Policy (2002)
25. A Water Secure World
• High level leadership and ownership
• Stakeholder involvement and
ownership
• Financed water management plans for
implementation
• Strong inter-sectoral cooperation
• Institutions
• Information
• Infrastructure
• Managing trade-offs
• Good governance
26. Local, global, regional, cooperation
Water CC
Food Finance
Energy Conflicts
Problems are interconnected &
Cannot be solved by 1 country
Mohamed AIT KADI GWP/TEC
alone
27. Keys for Success
• Measurement to assess and improve
performance, supported by clear policies
• Convene the players needed to develop better
solutions across sectors
• Lead change locally through government-
corporate-civil society partnerships supported by
financial instruments