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Item Insights into the importance of ecosystem services to human well-being in reservoir landscapes(Journal Article, 2019-10) Jones, S.K.; Boundaogo, M.; DeClerck, Fabrice A.J.; Estrada-Carmona, Natalia; Mirumachi, N.; Mulligan, M.Smallholder farmers in West Africa use multiple ecosystem services (ES) in their day-to-day lives. The contribution that these services make to human well-being (HWB), and therefore to development outcomes, is not well understood. We analyse smallholder farmer perceptions of ES, ecosystem disservices (ED), and their HWB importance around community-managed reservoirs in four semi-arid landscapes in West Africa, using participatory mapping, focus groups and face-to-face surveys. Farmers identified what nature-based benefits (ES) and problems (ED) they perceived across each landscape and rated the importance of each service and disservice for their HWB. Our results indicate that ES make an important contribution to HWB in our study sites. More than 80% of farmers rated benefits from plant-based foods, domestic and agricultural water supplies, biofuel, medicinal plants, and fertile soil, and problems associated with human disease vectors, as of high or very high importance for HWB. Multiple ES were identified as contributing to each dimension of HWB, and ED as detracting from health and material well-being. Perceptions of the importance of several ES and ED varied significantly with socio-economic group, highlighting the need for careful consideration of trade-offs between HWB outcomes and stakeholders in ecosystem management decisions to support sustainable development.Item Assessing ecosystem-based farm management practices in the Kassena-Nankana area: a Study of government and community managed irrigation schemes.(Report, 2017) Agula, C.The contribution of irrigation farming to food security, nutrition, employment and poverty alleviation cannot be overemphasized in the savannah zone of Ghana of which Kassena-Nankana area is part. The main objective of the study was to assess the use of ecosystem-based farm management practices (EBFMPs) in government and community managed irrigation schemes within the Kassena-Nankana area and how these EBFMPs affect farmers’ livelihood. The study used data collected from 300 irrigating households (150 each for government managed irrigation scheme (GIS) and community managed irrigation schemes (CIS)). Farmers’ willingness to pay for EBFMPs sustainability was elicited by the contingent valuation method (CVM). The Poisson and negative binomial models, which were employed to determine the factors that influence farmers’ intensity of using EBFMPs indicated that age, distance of irrigated farm from home, farmers’ perception of soil fertility, farmers’ knowledge of EBFMPs, number of extension visits and the type of irrigation scheme were statistically significant. The t-test (mean comparison) also concluded that farmers under CIS significantly have higher mean willingness to pay (WTP) amount than those under the GIS. It was also revealed by a treatment effect model (regression adjustment) that a decision to use high number of EBFMPs causes an improvement on farmers’ average livelihood status score (ALSS), which is significant at 1%. The study concluded that there was low adoption of EBFMPs by farmers in the study area. However, those under CIS employed more EBFMPs than those under GIS. The study therefore recommends that policy implementers and development partners should revise their “yield emphasis” and intensify their extension activities to educate farmers on the use of EBFMPs. Again, the study recommends that more programs and projects should be tailored on sustainable production systems since those have greater positive impact on farmers’ livelihoods.Item Mapping actors along value chains: integrating visual network research and participatory statistics into value chain analysis(Book, 2017) Stein, C.; Barron, JennieThis report outlines a participatory approach for mapping actors along value chains. The methodology provides novel ideas on how to combine value chain analysis with participatory statistics and visual network research approaches, to generate valuable insights about complex value chains together with local stakeholders in a cost effective way. A framework is introduced, which provides a canvas for mapping actors onto different analytical dimensions relevant in value chain analysis. After outlining some of the conceptual foundations and the methodological approach, a sequence of steps for mapping actors and their relationships is described. The experience from a case study is used to illustrate the steps involved. The case study is on fodder value chains in the Sahelian agro-ecological zone of Burkina Faso, but the mapping approach can be adapted to a range of contexts.Item TAI Project - WP4 Workshops report(Report, 2017) Antona, M.; Daré, W.; Jankowski, F.; Labeyrie, V.; Kizito, FredItem Targeting agricultural innovations and ecosystem services in the Volta Basin(Report, 2017) CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and EcosystemsItem Rapport de l’Atelier de la plateforme multi-acteurs WP4 Tenkodogo du projet: Targeting Agricultural innovation and Ecosystem Services Management in the Northern Volta Basin(Report, 2017) Boundaogo, M.; Olivier, H.A.B.Item First WP4 Workshop report in Zebilla(Report, 2017) Antona, M.; Daré, W.; Jankowski, F.Item Mapping ecosystem services in the Volta basin using Co$ting nature ES assessment model(Report, 2017) Mulligan, Mark; Soesbergen, Arnout vanItem Mapping reservoirs in the Volta basin(Report, 2017) Mulligan, Mark; Smedley, David; Jones, Sarah K.; Soesbergen, Arnout vanItem Enabling decision-making for agricultural interventions(Report, 2017) Lanzanova, D.; Luedeling, Eike; Whitney, Cory W.Item Estimating water use by crops and other vegetation in the Volta basin using WaterWorld(Report, 2017) Mulligan, Mark; Soesbergen, Arnout vanItem Assessing impacts of agriculture and dams on hydrological ES to people and dams in the Volta basin using the WaterWorld hydrological model(Report, 2017) Mulligan, Mark; Soesbergen, Arnout vanThis guide focuses on how to run a baseline analysis using the WaterWorld hydrological model (Mulligan, 2013) with a particular focus on using two WaterWorld metrics to examine the impact of agriculture on hydrological ecosystem services to people and small dams and then the impact of small dams on hydrological ecosystem services provided to people. The former is assessed using the model results-based hydrological footprint - which calculates the hydrological footprint (downstream influence) of cropland based on modelled water balance and runoff. This assesses the volume of water potentially influenced by a land cover type in relation to the total volume of water in flow. The latter is assessed using the model results-based flow footprint (WWFF) - which calculates the flow footprint (downstream influence) of small dams based on modelled water balance and runoff. The flow footprint is a special case of the hydrological footprint for in-stream features such as dams rather than on-land features such as land uses, but is calculated in the same way. The number of people affected are calculated as the first (dis-)beneficiaries of these footprints according to the spatial distribution of population in relation to the footprints. This accounts for the footprints influence on these first beneficiaries (water users, irrigators, fishers) but not for the impact of these footprints on supply chain beneficiaries through for example increased prices as a result of reduced availability.Item Ideologies. Development models and irrigated land tenure: the bagré irrigation project in Burkina faso(Case Study, 2017) Venot, Jean-Philippe; Daré, William; Kabore, Etienne; Francoise, Gerard; Tapsoba, Abdoulaye; Idani, Donatien; Carboni, SimoneThis paper discusses the history of irrigation development and related land allocation in the Bagré area in the South of Burkina Faso. It specifically analyses current processes at play as part of the recent Bagré Growth Pole Project implemented by the government of Burkina Faso with support of the World Bank. The paper stresses the efforts made to put in place a fair and equitable compensation mechanism for the people being affected by the extension of the irrigated area downstream of the Bagré dam. The practicalities and thresholds considered in the compensation scheme are partly driven by the need to free some rainfed land to allow agro-entrepreneurs to settle in the area, financially contribute to the infrastructural costs of developing irrigation, and develop intensive and profitable irrigated production systems. This leads to socially constructing land scarcity, and threatens the future viability of smallholder farming. This happens even though the expressions of interests received to date by Bagrepole from agro-entrepreneurs appear little likely to trigger the virtuous development circle hoped for.Item WLE Regional Strategy and Prioritization: Developing a Focal Region Initiative in the Volta and Niger basins(Other, 2013) CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and EcosystemsItem Report on the main activities undertaken and preliminary findings emerging from research on the CGIAR Targeting Agricultural Innovations and Ecosystem Services in the northern Volta basin (TAI) project(Report, 2016) Boundaogo, M.; Brauman, Kate A.; Chaplin-Kramer, Rebecca; Daré, W.; DeClerck, Fabrice A.J.; Fremier, Alexander K.; Gordon, L.; Katic, P.; Kizito, Fred; Lanzanova, D.; Luedeling, Eike; Johnson, J.; Jones, S.; Malmborg, K.; Mulligan, M.; Rocha, J.The CGIAR Water, Land and Ecosystems research project on Targeting Agricultural Innovations and Ecosystem Services in the northern Volta basin (TAI) is a two year project (2014-2016) led by Bioversity International in collaboration with 11 institutes: CIAT, CIRAD, International Water Management Institute (IWMI), King’s College London (KCL), SNV World Burkina Faso (SNV), Stanford University, Stockholm Resilience Centre (SRC), University of Development Studies Ghana (UDS), University of Minnesota, University of Washington, and the World Agroforestry Institute. We are working with communities across Centre-Est Burkina Faso and Upper-East Ghana to gather empirical data, test research methodologies and co-develop knowledge on solutions to ecosystem service management challenges. Results from the project are still emerging and will continue to do so into 2017 as the team finish analysing the data and writing up their findings. This report presents the main activities accomplished and preliminary headline messages from the first 18 months of the project. Final results from the project will be made available in 2017 on the WLE website.Item Evaluation of biomass enhancing practices in the Yatenga region of Burkina Faso(Thesis, 2016) Bremer, J.Item Competitive farming strategies and their effect on water provision and profitability among smallholder farms: the case of Muooni Dam site, Kenya(Book Chapter, 2015) Wambua, P. P.; Luwesi, Cush Ngonzo; Bader, E. O.; Doke, D.A.; Akombo, R.A.; Mikwa, J.F.Item Volta Basin Development Challenge. Abstracts of Final Science Workshop.(Conference Proceedings, 2013) Olufunke, Cofie; Mahamoudou, SawadogoItem Volta Basin Development Challenge: management of rainwater and small reservoir for multiple uses.Final Science Workshop Report(Conference Proceedings, 2013-09-17) Olufunke, Cofie