CPWF Policy Briefs

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    How water and agriculture support livelihoods in the Volta
    (Brief, 2009) Cook, Simon E.
    The CPWF Volta Basin Focal Project project team was led by Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD, France) with collaborating scientists from the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) - Ghana, CSIR Water Research Institute - Ghana, Université de Ouagadougou, Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research-Ghana, Institut de Recherches en Sciences de la Santé (IRSS)- Ouagadougou, Institut National des Sciences de la Société (INSS) - Ouagadougou, WorldFish Centre - Egypt, and International Centre for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT).
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    Managing water through livestock in the Nile basin
    (Brief, 2009) Peden, Donald G.; Johnson, Nancy L.
    Livestock use and degrade much water in the Nile River Basin. New research suggests that integrated development and management of water and livestock resources will conserve water and increase the profitability and environmental sustainability of investments by governments, development agencies, and farmers. Practical opportunities exist to enhance food security, reduce poverty, and foster benefit sharing. Institutions responsible for water resources may benefit from partnering with the livestock sector when developing water resources.
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    People, livelihoods and Multiple-Use Water Services (MUS)
    (Brief, 2009) van Koppen, Barbara
    The CPWF’s MUS team includes researchers and implementers from the domestic and productive water sub-sectors. Partners are the International Water Management Institute, the International Water and Sanitation Centre, International Development Enterprises, and 18 national and regional farmer networks, NGOs, government agencies, and universities in eight countries in five river basins: the Andes System (Bolivia and Colombia), Indus-Ganges (India and Nepal), Limpopo (South Africa and Zimbabwe), Mekong (Thailand), and Nile basins (Ethiopia). Winrock International led an economic analysis of CP-MUS cases and other case studies. CPWF MUS piloted the MUS approach in 25 study areas.
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    Water, people and food in the Mekong River Basin
    (Brief, 2009) Cook, Simon E.
    Three factors will drive great change in the Mekong area:1) Population is expected to increase from the current 6 0million to more than 90 million in 2050. 2) The proportion of urban dwellers will rise from about 20 % to about 40 %. Economic growth is around 4.5 % per annum.3) With an annual average rainfall of over 7km3 per capita, the major issues concern not total water availability, but the impact of changed flows on ecology, fish production, access to water and food security.
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    Food and water security under global change: CPWF policy brief
    (Brief, 2009) Ringler, Claudia
    Over the coming decades, global change will have an impact on food and water security in highly significant and yet uncertain ways. There are strong indications that developing countries will bear the brunt of any adverse conditions, particularly those steeming from climate change. T his is largely because poverty levels are high, and developing-country capacity to adapt to global change is weak. Furthermore, the rural populations of developing countries—for whom agricultural production is the primary source of direct and indirect employment and income—will be most affected due agriculture’s vulnerability to global change processes. T he agricultural sector is the largest consumer of water resources, and variability in water supply has a major influence on health and welfare in poor areas. With water scarcity and extreme weather events expected to increase under climate change, water security could decline significantly in rural areas and in agriculture. Consequently, it is important to understand the impacts of global change (in terms of climate, demography, technology, and so on), on agriculture and natural resources in developing countries and to develop adaptive capacity to respond to these impacts. Moreover, there is a need to develop informed and effective adaptation measures and investment options that can be taken now to alleviate adverse impacts of global change in the future.