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  1. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    August, 2009
    Ethiopia, Eastern Africa

    Agricultural production in Ethiopia is characterised by subsistence orientation, low productivity, low level of technology and inputs, lack of infrastructures and market institutions, and extremely vulnerable to rainfall variability. It has a rapidly increasing population currently close to 74 million and yet about 39 percent of the population lives on absolute poverty of less than a $1 a day poverty line while close to 80 percent falls below US $2 a day poverty line.

  2. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    August, 2009
    Colombia, South America

    The Sustaining inclusive Collective Action that Links across Economic and Ecological Scales in upper watersheds (Scales) project fits mainly in People and Water in Catchments Theme (Theme

    2) of the CPWF. Its goal is to contribute to poverty alleviation in the upper watersheds of the

    tropics through improved collective action for watershed resource management within and across

    social-spatial scales. Scales worked though an integrated program of collaborative action

    research, development, and capacity building in key catchments of the Nile and Andes basins, as

  3. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    August, 2009
    India, Asia

    “The Strategic Analysis of India’s National River Linking Project”: In 2005, the

    International Water Management Institute (IWMI) and the Challenge Program on Water

    and Food (CPWF) started a three-year research study on “Strategic Analysis of India’s River Linking Project”. The primary focus of the IWMI-CPWF project is to provide the public and the policy planners with a balanced analysis of the social benefits and costs ofthe National River Linking Project (NRLP).

    The project consists of research in three phases. Phase I analyzed India’s water future

  4. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    August, 2009
    Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam, South-Eastern Asia

    The Mekong Basin Focal Project aims were to assess water use, water productivity and

    water poverty in the basin, and analyse the opportunities and risks of change in water

    management that influences water poverty.

    The main issue facing the Lower Mekong is not water availability (except for seasonally in

    certain areas such as northeast Thailand) but the impact of changed flows (which may

    result from dam or irrigation development or climate change) on ecology, fish production,

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