Presentation by CPWF Director Alain Vidal on CPWF experiences in Green Growth. Looking at how we boost production, balance the need for sharing benefits, and basis as the key role of ecosystem services
This document provides an overview and framework for understanding how global drivers influence river basins and water, food, and development systems. It discusses 10 basin focal projects that examined these interlinked systems. While individual ecosystem services are understood to some degree, the complex interactions between societies and ecosystem services as development occurs represents both opportunities and risks. The framework aims to organize information on global drivers, identify how basins may respond to drivers through scenarios and learning, and relate responses to system resilience. The workshop aims to expand on concepts and scenarios to understand how global drivers can inform the Challenge Program on Water and Food.
This document provides information about the ReSAKSS-SA program, which aims to strengthen capacity for strategic agricultural policy and investment planning in Southern African Development Community (SADC) countries. ReSAKSS-SA is facilitated by the International Water Management Institute and the International Food Policy Research Institute to support the goals of the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme and SADC. The program provides analysis and knowledge to help countries in the region plan, review, and discuss policies to increase agricultural growth, reduce poverty, and achieve food security goals.
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive functioning. Exercise causes chemical changes in the brain that may help boost feelings of calmness, happiness and focus.
The document discusses the concepts of resilience and vulnerability in ecological and social systems. It defines resilience as the capacity of a system to withstand shocks while still maintaining its basic functions and structure. Vulnerability refers to the exposure of human populations to shocks due to a loss of resilience. The document advocates applying a resilience lens to development in order to foster systems that can adapt to changes while maintaining desirable functions and states. It provides examples of factors that increase social-ecological resilience, like diversity, knowledge sharing, and self-organization across scales.
1) The research seeks to identify agricultural water management (AWM) interventions in Ghana's Upper West Region, assess their effectiveness, and scale up successful interventions elsewhere.
2) It finds that small reservoirs have helped manage droughts and floods, making water available year-round, though they are poorly maintained. Stone bunds and tied ridges have improved crop yields.
3) Over 100% adoption increases were seen for interventions except in one community, likely due to land tenure issues. The research concludes interventions' success depends on factors like fertilizer access and marketing, in addition to the interventions themselves.
This document provides an overview of the CPWF Volta Basin Project "Integrated Management of Rainwater for Crop-Livestock agro-ecosystems" (V2) which aims to increase crop and livestock productivity through identifying, evaluating, adapting and disseminating best-fit integrated rainwater management strategies. The project is being conducted in northern Ghana and Burkina Faso, with research questions focusing on determining best strategies under different conditions, assessing impacts on productivity, and fostering adoption. Key outputs include baseline characterization, recommendations, tools for analysis, dissemination, and capacity building.
This document provides an overview and framework for understanding how global drivers influence river basins and water, food, and development systems. It discusses 10 basin focal projects that examined these interlinked systems. While individual ecosystem services are understood to some degree, the complex interactions between societies and ecosystem services as development occurs represents both opportunities and risks. The framework aims to organize information on global drivers, identify how basins may respond to drivers through scenarios and learning, and relate responses to system resilience. The workshop aims to expand on concepts and scenarios to understand how global drivers can inform the Challenge Program on Water and Food.
This document provides information about the ReSAKSS-SA program, which aims to strengthen capacity for strategic agricultural policy and investment planning in Southern African Development Community (SADC) countries. ReSAKSS-SA is facilitated by the International Water Management Institute and the International Food Policy Research Institute to support the goals of the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme and SADC. The program provides analysis and knowledge to help countries in the region plan, review, and discuss policies to increase agricultural growth, reduce poverty, and achieve food security goals.
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive functioning. Exercise causes chemical changes in the brain that may help boost feelings of calmness, happiness and focus.
The document discusses the concepts of resilience and vulnerability in ecological and social systems. It defines resilience as the capacity of a system to withstand shocks while still maintaining its basic functions and structure. Vulnerability refers to the exposure of human populations to shocks due to a loss of resilience. The document advocates applying a resilience lens to development in order to foster systems that can adapt to changes while maintaining desirable functions and states. It provides examples of factors that increase social-ecological resilience, like diversity, knowledge sharing, and self-organization across scales.
1) The research seeks to identify agricultural water management (AWM) interventions in Ghana's Upper West Region, assess their effectiveness, and scale up successful interventions elsewhere.
2) It finds that small reservoirs have helped manage droughts and floods, making water available year-round, though they are poorly maintained. Stone bunds and tied ridges have improved crop yields.
3) Over 100% adoption increases were seen for interventions except in one community, likely due to land tenure issues. The research concludes interventions' success depends on factors like fertilizer access and marketing, in addition to the interventions themselves.
This document provides an overview of the CPWF Volta Basin Project "Integrated Management of Rainwater for Crop-Livestock agro-ecosystems" (V2) which aims to increase crop and livestock productivity through identifying, evaluating, adapting and disseminating best-fit integrated rainwater management strategies. The project is being conducted in northern Ghana and Burkina Faso, with research questions focusing on determining best strategies under different conditions, assessing impacts on productivity, and fostering adoption. Key outputs include baseline characterization, recommendations, tools for analysis, dissemination, and capacity building.
By Asad Sarwar Qureshi, Samina Yasmin, Nikar C. Holader, Timothy J. Krupnik
Revitalizing the Ganges Coastal Zone Conference
21-23 October 2014, Dhaka, Bangladesh
http://waterandfood.org/ganges-conference/
By J. Bhattacharya, M.K. Mondal, E. Humphreys, M.H. Rashid, P.L.C. Paul, S.P. Ritu
Revitalizing the Ganges Coastal Zone Conference
21-23 October 2014, Dhaka, Bangladesh
http://waterandfood.org/ganges-conference/
By M. Maniruzzaman, J.C. Bisawas, M.A.I. Khan, G.W. Sarker, S.S. Haque, J.K. Biswas, M.H. Sarker, M.A. Rashid, N.U. Sekhar, A. Nemes, S. Xenarios, J. Deelstra
Revitalizing the Ganges Coastal Zone Conference
21-23 October 2014, Dhaka, Bangladesh
http://waterandfood.org/ganges-conference/
1) The study evaluated the feasibility of growing three rice crops per year in the coastal zones of Bangladesh where fresh water is available year-round.
2) The study tested different establishment dates for aus and aman rice varieties as well as sowing dates for boro rice. It found that growing three rice crops per year is possible and can yield 13.4 to 17.2 tons per hectare per year.
3) The study recommends further evaluating the system over a range of weather conditions and developing ecologically friendly management practices to address potential increases in pests and diseases from triple rice cropping.
By M. Harunur Rashid, Faruk Hossain, Deb Kumar Nath, Parimal Chandra Sarker, AKM Ferdous, Timothy Russel
Revitalizing the Ganges Coastal Zone Conference
21-23 October 2014, Dhaka, Bangladesh
http://waterandfood.org/ganges-conference/
By Camelia Dewan, Marie-Charlotte Buisson and Aditi Mukherji
Revitalizing the Ganges Coastal Zone Conference
21-23 October 2014, Dhaka, Bangladesh
http://waterandfood.org/ganges-conference/
The document discusses using innovation platforms to improve goat markets and farming systems in Zimbabwe. Key points:
- Innovation platforms bring together farmers, traders, processors, researchers and others to identify challenges and opportunities to improve goat production and marketing.
- Objectives are to improve market efficiency, reduce transaction costs, promote productivity-increasing technologies, and build local innovation capacity.
- Results included dramatically reduced goat mortality rates (from 25% to under 10%), higher prices for farmers, and investments in improved feeding and health practices.
- Other actors like NGOs and the government also increased support like building sale pens and improving veterinary services. The approach transformed the system from crop-focused to more livestock-focused and
By Urs Schulthess, Timothy J. Krupnik, Zia Uddin Ahmed, Andy J. McDonald
Revitalizing the Ganges Coastal Zone Conference
21-23 October 2014, Dhaka, Bangladesh
http://waterandfood.org/ganges-conference/
By Parvesh Kr Chandna, Andy Nelson, Zahirul Khan, Moqbul Hossain, Sohel Rana, Fazlur Rashid, M. Mondal, T.P. Tuong
Revitalizing the Ganges Coastal Zone Conference
21-23 October 2014, Dhaka, Bangladesh
http://waterandfood.org/ganges-conference/
By Parvesh Kumar Chandna, Andy Nelson, Sohel Rana, Marie-Charlotte Buisson, Sam Mohanty, Nazneed Sultana, Deepak Sethi, T.P. Tuong
Revitalizing the Ganges Coastal Zone Conference
21-23 October 2014, Dhaka, Bangladesh
http://waterandfood.org/ganges-conference/
By Asad Sarwar Qureshi, Samina Yasmin, Nikar C. Howlader, Timothy J. Krupnik
Revitalizing the Ganges Coastal Zone Conference
21-23 October 2014, Dhaka, Bangladesh
http://waterandfood.org/ganges-conference/
By Dr. Md. Ataur Rahman (Wheat Research Centre, BARI)
Revitalizing the Ganges Coastal Zone Conference
21-23 October 2014, Dhaka, Bangladesh
http://waterandfood.org/ganges-conference/
By Sanjida P. Ritu, M.K. Mondal, T.P. Tuong, S.U. Talukdar, E. Humphreys
Revitalizing the Ganges Coastal Zone Conference
21-23 October 2014, Dhaka, Bangladesh
http://waterandfood.org/ganges-conference/
By Kazi Ahmed Kabir, S.B. Saha, Manjurul Karim, Craig A. Meisner, Michael J. Phillips
Revitalizing the Ganges Coastal Zone Conference
21-23 October 2014, Dhaka, Bangladesh
http://waterandfood.org/ganges-conference/
By S.B. Saha, K.A. Kabir, M.K. Mondal, M. Karim, P.L.C. Paul, M. Phillips, E. Humphreys, T.P. Tuong
Revitalizing the Ganges Coastal Zone Conference
21-23 October 2014, Dhaka, Bangladesh
http://waterandfood.org/ganges-conference/
BRAC aims to increase agricultural and aquacultural productivity in coastal Bangladesh through several strategies. These include converting single cropping areas to double or triple cropping, introducing short-duration rice varieties, stress-tolerant crops and fish varieties, and integrating fish/prawn-rice-vegetable systems in ghers. Technologies are disseminated to over 55,000 farmers across 59 upazilas. Hybrid rice varieties yield up to 9.5 tons/hectare. Integrated ghers provide net profits from 172,558-416,975 taka/hectare. Aquaculture in floodplains involves 257 farmers utilizing 73 acres in 2013, yielding an average 795 kg/hect
By Subhra Bikash Bhattacharyya, Tapas Kumar Ghoshal, Jitendra Kumar Sundaray (Central Institute of Brackishwater Aquaculture, India)
Revitalizing the Ganges Coastal Zone Conference
21-23 October 2014, Dhaka, Bangladesh
http://waterandfood.org/ganges-conference/
By Asad Sarwar Qureshi, Samina Yasmin, Nikar C. Holader, Timothy J. Krupnik
Revitalizing the Ganges Coastal Zone Conference
21-23 October 2014, Dhaka, Bangladesh
http://waterandfood.org/ganges-conference/
By J. Bhattacharya, M.K. Mondal, E. Humphreys, M.H. Rashid, P.L.C. Paul, S.P. Ritu
Revitalizing the Ganges Coastal Zone Conference
21-23 October 2014, Dhaka, Bangladesh
http://waterandfood.org/ganges-conference/
By M. Maniruzzaman, J.C. Bisawas, M.A.I. Khan, G.W. Sarker, S.S. Haque, J.K. Biswas, M.H. Sarker, M.A. Rashid, N.U. Sekhar, A. Nemes, S. Xenarios, J. Deelstra
Revitalizing the Ganges Coastal Zone Conference
21-23 October 2014, Dhaka, Bangladesh
http://waterandfood.org/ganges-conference/
1) The study evaluated the feasibility of growing three rice crops per year in the coastal zones of Bangladesh where fresh water is available year-round.
2) The study tested different establishment dates for aus and aman rice varieties as well as sowing dates for boro rice. It found that growing three rice crops per year is possible and can yield 13.4 to 17.2 tons per hectare per year.
3) The study recommends further evaluating the system over a range of weather conditions and developing ecologically friendly management practices to address potential increases in pests and diseases from triple rice cropping.
By M. Harunur Rashid, Faruk Hossain, Deb Kumar Nath, Parimal Chandra Sarker, AKM Ferdous, Timothy Russel
Revitalizing the Ganges Coastal Zone Conference
21-23 October 2014, Dhaka, Bangladesh
http://waterandfood.org/ganges-conference/
By Camelia Dewan, Marie-Charlotte Buisson and Aditi Mukherji
Revitalizing the Ganges Coastal Zone Conference
21-23 October 2014, Dhaka, Bangladesh
http://waterandfood.org/ganges-conference/
The document discusses using innovation platforms to improve goat markets and farming systems in Zimbabwe. Key points:
- Innovation platforms bring together farmers, traders, processors, researchers and others to identify challenges and opportunities to improve goat production and marketing.
- Objectives are to improve market efficiency, reduce transaction costs, promote productivity-increasing technologies, and build local innovation capacity.
- Results included dramatically reduced goat mortality rates (from 25% to under 10%), higher prices for farmers, and investments in improved feeding and health practices.
- Other actors like NGOs and the government also increased support like building sale pens and improving veterinary services. The approach transformed the system from crop-focused to more livestock-focused and
By Urs Schulthess, Timothy J. Krupnik, Zia Uddin Ahmed, Andy J. McDonald
Revitalizing the Ganges Coastal Zone Conference
21-23 October 2014, Dhaka, Bangladesh
http://waterandfood.org/ganges-conference/
By Parvesh Kr Chandna, Andy Nelson, Zahirul Khan, Moqbul Hossain, Sohel Rana, Fazlur Rashid, M. Mondal, T.P. Tuong
Revitalizing the Ganges Coastal Zone Conference
21-23 October 2014, Dhaka, Bangladesh
http://waterandfood.org/ganges-conference/
By Parvesh Kumar Chandna, Andy Nelson, Sohel Rana, Marie-Charlotte Buisson, Sam Mohanty, Nazneed Sultana, Deepak Sethi, T.P. Tuong
Revitalizing the Ganges Coastal Zone Conference
21-23 October 2014, Dhaka, Bangladesh
http://waterandfood.org/ganges-conference/
By Asad Sarwar Qureshi, Samina Yasmin, Nikar C. Howlader, Timothy J. Krupnik
Revitalizing the Ganges Coastal Zone Conference
21-23 October 2014, Dhaka, Bangladesh
http://waterandfood.org/ganges-conference/
By Dr. Md. Ataur Rahman (Wheat Research Centre, BARI)
Revitalizing the Ganges Coastal Zone Conference
21-23 October 2014, Dhaka, Bangladesh
http://waterandfood.org/ganges-conference/
By Sanjida P. Ritu, M.K. Mondal, T.P. Tuong, S.U. Talukdar, E. Humphreys
Revitalizing the Ganges Coastal Zone Conference
21-23 October 2014, Dhaka, Bangladesh
http://waterandfood.org/ganges-conference/
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Revitalizing the Ganges Coastal Zone Conference
21-23 October 2014, Dhaka, Bangladesh
http://waterandfood.org/ganges-conference/
By S.B. Saha, K.A. Kabir, M.K. Mondal, M. Karim, P.L.C. Paul, M. Phillips, E. Humphreys, T.P. Tuong
Revitalizing the Ganges Coastal Zone Conference
21-23 October 2014, Dhaka, Bangladesh
http://waterandfood.org/ganges-conference/
BRAC aims to increase agricultural and aquacultural productivity in coastal Bangladesh through several strategies. These include converting single cropping areas to double or triple cropping, introducing short-duration rice varieties, stress-tolerant crops and fish varieties, and integrating fish/prawn-rice-vegetable systems in ghers. Technologies are disseminated to over 55,000 farmers across 59 upazilas. Hybrid rice varieties yield up to 9.5 tons/hectare. Integrated ghers provide net profits from 172,558-416,975 taka/hectare. Aquaculture in floodplains involves 257 farmers utilizing 73 acres in 2013, yielding an average 795 kg/hect
By Subhra Bikash Bhattacharyya, Tapas Kumar Ghoshal, Jitendra Kumar Sundaray (Central Institute of Brackishwater Aquaculture, India)
Revitalizing the Ganges Coastal Zone Conference
21-23 October 2014, Dhaka, Bangladesh
http://waterandfood.org/ganges-conference/
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1. Green growth:
the need for unpacking the concept
Alain Vidal, CPWF Director
International High Level Dialogue:
Bridging Land- and Water Management for enabling agribusiness development and Green Economic Growth
24 April 2012 – Wageningen – the Netherlands
2. Unpacking…
From river basin management to river basin
development
Basis – the key role of ecosystem services
Boost – the potential for local innovation platforms
Balance – the need for sharing the benefits
3. Water, food and poverty analyzed in 10 basins
1.5 billion people
50% of the poorest < 1€/j
Niger
4. Poverty: Is it the resources scarcity?
5,000
4,000 Bangladesh
Bolivia
Brazil
3,000
GNI ($US/cap)
Burkina Faso
China
Colombia
2,000 Egypt, Arab Rep.
Ethiopia
India
1,000 Thailand
Vietnam
World
0
0.00E+00 2.00E-05 4.00E-05 6.00E-05 8.00E-05 1.00E-04
Water availability (km3/cap)
5. …even in very dry areas ?
5,000
4,000
Bangladesh
Bolivia
Brazil
3,000
GNI ($US/cap)
Burkina Faso
China
Colombia
2,000 Egypt, Arab Rep.
Ethiopia
India
1,000 Thailand
Vietnam
World
0
0.00E+00 1.00E-06 2.00E-06 3.00E-06 4.00E-06 5.00E-06
Water availability (km3/cap)
7. From river basin management
to river basin development
80
Burkina Faso
General
70 Ethiopia and direction Bangladesh
Contribution of agriculture to GDP growth (%)
Burkina Faso
Bolivia
in agricultural
60 phase of Brazil
development
India
50 Ethiopia
India and
Bangladesh
40 transitioning
to higher
value
30 activities
Brazil strong growth in the 60’s
and in recent years to emerge as
20 an industrial economy
Bolivia emerging
10 slowly after
decades of low
0
0 500 1,000 1,500 2,000 2,500 3,000 3,500 4,000 4,500
Per capita GNI (US$)
10. Agriculture
contribution to GDP
(%) ... Solutions
Basics need
Meeting urgent
demand growth Emerging need for
sustainability
Increasing Role for
Institutions Providing basics Big invest in agric.
Protecting existing support Resource-sharing & protection Benefit-sharing (trading)
Invest in agricultural basics Developing pathways out of Demand management
farming Supply-chain management
Gross National Income
11. Basis
The key role of ecosystem services
River basins provide a diversity of ecosystem services
Provisioning, cultural, regulatory, supporting
Most of these are understood individually, to a
degree
As they develop, societies exploit these ES
Appropriate, invest, exchange, ruin…
…development is influenced by ESs
…development modifies ESs
This represents opportunities and risks
12. Mekong: Hydropower and livelihoods
From Stone, 2011
40 million people in the Mekong
depend on fisheries for at least
part of the year
Yet the entire region is looking
to hydropower as Laos
Techniques, land and water uses exist
that can increase benefits available to
riparian communities and to dam
builders
Fish-rice systems
Artificial wetlands
13. Boost
The potential for local innovation platforms
Established around local
specific production and
marketing systems, ideally
merged into larger
commercialization networks
Promote technologies improving production at
household level, making products more marketable
Implement strategies improving market efficiency and
reduce transaction costs along the value chain
Allow more money to flow to the producer an incentive
for improved farming practices
14. Limpopo: Rainwater management,
innovation platforms and value chains
Strengthen agricultural value
chains where market-related
failures contribute to poverty
Greater alignment of
production with market
requirements
Appropriate technologies must
fit existing livelihood systems
and include socially acceptable
incentives
15. Balance : The need for sharing
the benefits
Move beyond sharing waters
Consider socially and economically
most beneficial land and water uses
Successful experiences in the Andes
(trust funds), financing ecosystems
restoration and livelihoods
improvement
16. Unpacking green growth?
A few guiding messages
Basis: Despite challenges in many river basins, overall the planet
has enough water (and land?) to meet the full range of people’s
and ecosystems’ needs for the foreseeable future, but equity will
only be achieved through judicious and creative management
Boost and Balance: Wise use of our L&W resources for
strengthening (rural) livelihoods and ecosystem services requires
simultaneously using them more productively and sharing L&W
and their benefits more equitably
Institutions: Higher L&W productivity and greater social equity
can be obtained only through a radical in change of policies and
institutional arrangements in both developed and developing
nations