Developing rainfed crop-livestock value chains through Innovation Platforms: experiences with rural communities in the Volta Basin

Some, H. 2013. Developing rainfed crop-livestock value chains through Innovation Platforms: experiences with rural communities in the Volta Basin. CPWF Volta Brief. Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso: CPWF.

Multi-actor system as an Innovation Platform (IP)

The Challenge Program on Water and Food in the Volta basin aims “to strengthen integrated management of rainwater and small reservoirs so that they can be used equitably for multiple uses.” One way by which to accomplish this is to increase crop and livestock productivity through Rainwater Management Strategies (RMS) and improve water productivity at the farm level.