Tampa BSides - Chef's Tour of Microsoft Security Adoption Framework (SAF)
The cgiar research program on water, land and ecosystems (wle)
1. The CGIAR Research Program on
Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE)
Led by IWMI
2. Water Land and Ecosystem Vision:
A world in which agriculture thrives within
vibrant ecosystems, where communities
have higher incomes, improved food
security and the ability to continuously
improve their lives
6. WLE Strategic Research Portfolio:
Information Systems
Provides an umbrella for WLE
research by:
• Systematically supporting
prioritization of intervention
decisions that are most likely
to reduce risks and improve
lives and productivity
• Designing and implementing
measurement and information
systems to assess and monitor
agro-ecosystem health and
build stakeholder capacity in
their deployment
Photo: Tom Van Cakenberghe/IWMI
7. WLE Strategic Research Portfolio:
Rainfed Farming Systems
Provides solutions to:
Photo :Akica Bahri/IWMI
• Reduce land
degradation in rainfed
landscapes
• Sustain productive
landscapes by increasing
biodiversity
• Reduce risk and tackle
productivity /
environment challenges
in farming landscapes
8. WLE Strategic Research Portfolio:
Resource Recovery and Reuse
Provides solutions to bring
nutrients back into production
systems through:
Photo: Andrea Silverman/IWMI
• Business opportunities for
resource recovery and reuse
• Safe wastewater and excreta
reuse
• Efficient water and land
management in peri-urban areas
• Addressing safety concerns where
polluted water is used for
irrigation
9. WLE Strategic Research Portfolio:
Irrigated Farming Systems
Jointly with rainfed and
RRR portfolios:
Photo: Tom Van Cakenberghe/IWMI
• Identify economically
viable management
opportunities to increase
land and (blue) water
productivity for increased
incomes and food security
• Analyze pillars for an
enabling environment to
promote smallholder
irrigation
• Evaluate private, public,
and PPP models to sustain
irrigation infrastructure
10. WLE Strategic Research Portfolio:
Basins
Integrates future scenarios of
water needs of key sector and
the environment to improve
water security through:
• Managing water resources’
variability and re-thinking
storage in basins
• Resource allocation and
benefit sharing
• Water and energy for food
• Water data and accounting in
basins
11. WLE Cross-Cutting Theme: Gender,
Poverty and Institutions
Equity in gender,
poverty, and
institutions integrated
into all WLE SRPs to
support:
• More equitable
access to water, land
and ecosystems
services
• Improved decision
making and enabling
environment
(institutional, policy,
capacity) for change
• Investable options for
women
12. WLE Cross-Cutting Theme: Ecosystem
Services and Resilience
Applies a systems
perspective to:
• Develop ecosystem
service-based
management
options
• Develop and refine
a methodology for
measuring
ecosystem service
status and delivery
13. How can you engage?
• Defining the development challenges for the four
focal regions - Indus/Ganges is one of the four.
• An anticipated $7 million will be available for
investments in the four focal regions in 2014 to
be programmed.
• Gender and innovation funds for 2014 $1 million
and $2 million respectively.
• This will be an open call with strict criteria that
will be funded for at least 2 years (2014 – 2015).
• There is on going discussion on creating a specific
partnership fund for 2014.
Ten WLE target basins and regions are: the Andes, Limpopo, Zambezi, Volta, Niger, Nile, Indus and Ganges, Mekong, Amu Darya and Syr Darya, and Tigris and Euphrates. These regions were selected based on specific criteria: clear opportunity in the policy space, strength and interest of partners, outcomes that have the potential to be transferred and scaled. As the map above shows, current WLE investments are in some of the poorest regions of the world where there are pressing water-related problems. For instance, it works in sub-Saharan Africa where there are high levels of food insecurity and rainfall variability. To demonstrate in detail how WLE will contribute to SLOs and IDOs, this presentation will walk through the process for developing impact pathways in the Volta Niger region to prioritize WLEs research agenda for the region.
‘Information systems’ will provide an umbrella for the research and assist to prioritize intervention decisions that are most likely to reduce risk, increase security, and improve lives under projected trends in population pressure, climate and land use change, and water and land resource degradation in the region. It will also identify geographically well-defined high potential impact areas for interventions and identify indicators and information systems to assess and monitor agro-ecosystem health for improving development decisions, and develop capacity in their deployment, in support of the other research portfolios.
The ‘Rainfed’ program will analyse current and future land degradation and its impact on household food security and livelihoods and suggest low-cost interventions e.g. for improved green water management and soil fertility restoration with high probability of adoption based on lessons learnt from previous research. The program will also assess the viability of suggested interventions in view of in- and output markets and the financial and economic implications of proposed interventions compared to scenarios such as business-as-usual and establish investment options.
The Rainfed program will be supported by the research portfolio on Resource Recovery & Reuse (RRR) which will evaluate a range of business models for bringing nutrients lost with the harvested crops back into the production system through resource recovery from organic domestic and agro-industrial waste sources. RRR will also support the other SRPs with economic analysis of social and environmental benefits.
The ‘Irrigation’ program will support the rainfed program by identifying economically viable management opportunities for increasing land and (blue) water productivity and income, and provide year-round food supply to demographic hotspots. Furthermore, it will analyse pillars for an enabling environment to promote small holder irrigation, and carry out evaluation of a range of private, public, and private-public sector partnership models to sustain irrigation infrastructure within the basins. The Resource Recovery & Reuse program will work closely with ‘Irrigation’ to address safety concerns where polluted (grey) water sources are used for irrigation.
The WLE research portfolio on Basins will have a key responsibility in modelling the temporal and spatial variability in water availability to ameliorate impacts of too high or too low rainfall and stream flow on agricultural and domestic water needs by the growing population. The program will consider future scenarios of water needs from key sectors and the environment under different demographic and climate dynamics and suggest and evaluate options for buffering supply challenges to minimize risks.
To support the sustainability of these interventions, the WLE Working Group on Gender, Poverty & Institutions will analyse capacity needs of institutions, possible incentives for behavioural changes and required policy support to create the enabling environment for forthcoming recommendations across the target areas. The program will also work closely with the other research teams to take care that proposed interventions align with current cultural customs and do not disadvantage women or children, for example in terms of additional work load.
The research work by these six programs will be harmonized by the research portfolio on Ecosystem Services which is applying a system perspective and ecosystem service based management practices in the menu of intervention options. The ESS&R considers the Volta as a coupled socio-ecological system and will work closely with regional multistakeholder platforms to identity where and how ecosystem services can contribute to sustainable and resilience landscape transformation for improving the lives of the poor. Working with international research partners such as the Natural Capital Project, Ecoagriculture Partners and the Stockholm Resilience Center amongst others the ESSR will develop and refine methodology for measuring ecosystem service status and delivery within the focal region