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  1. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    December, 2018
    Laos, Bangladesh, Vietnam, China, Myanmar, Cambodia, India, Thailand

    The residents of the Ganges and Mekong River deltas face serious challenges from rising sea levels, saltwater intrusion, pollution from upstream sources, growing populations, and infrastructure that no longer works as planned. In both deltas, scientists working for nearly two decades with communities, local governments and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) have demonstrated the potential to overcome these challenges and substantially improve people’s livelihoods.

  2. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    July, 2010
    China, Asia

    The Yellow River Basin (YRB) Focal Project set out to study water poverty, water

    availability and access, water productivity, and water and related institutions in the

    Yellow River basin to develop and rank a series of high-priority interventions aimed at

    increasing water and food security for the poor, while maintaining environmental

    sustainability. The YBFP identified complex relations between water and poverty in the

    YRB; identified streamflow declines in the basin despite predicted higher rainfall;

  3. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2010
    China, Asia

    This paper applies the principles of water-use accounts, developed in the first of the

    series, to the Yellow River basin in China. The Yellow River rises in the Bayan Har

    Mountains in Qinghai Province in western China, and empties into the Bohai Sea. A

    unique feature of the river is the large amount of silt it carries.

    Net runoff is about 14% of total precipitation. Forest and woodland cover 9% of the

    basin and use about 15% of the precipitation. Grassland covers much of the upper part

  4. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2013
    Asia, Eastern Asia, China, South-Eastern Asia, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam
    WorldFish is working with partners in the Mekong Region to support a new alliance of regional and local partners that will contribute towards sustainable wetlands management that benefit the poor. This project supports the Wetlands Alliance, an extensive network of organizations —government, civil and NGOs— actively engaged in developing innovative solutions to poverty alleviation. The Alliance helps local partners to build the capacity they need to work effectively with communities that they are supporting.
  5. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    April, 2010
    China, Asia

    Supported by the CPWF, this two-year project titled “Valuing the role of living aquatic

    resources to rural livelihoods in multiple-use, seasonally-inundated wetlands in the

    Yellow River Basin of China, for improved governance” focused on linking the use of

    wetlands resources by local communities and value of wetlands ecosystem services with

    management implications for the riverine and coastal wetlands in Henan and Shandong

    provinces. A study on this Chinese situation of pursuing a rapid development agenda

  6. Library Resource
    October, 2013
    Cambodia, China, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, South-Eastern Asia

    Hydropower development: a defining issue

    There are few other places in the world, perhaps none, with such intensive dams development as the Mekong Basin.

    The major tensions in the Mekong revolve around dams and other infrastructure development and the shift from economies based on agriculture and primary production to manufacturing, industry and services.

  7. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    January, 2015
    Rwanda, Ethiopia, India, Kenya, Mongolia, Senegal, Tanzania, Western Africa, Africa, Asia, Central Asia, Eastern Africa, Southern Asia

    This report explores evidence and insights from five case studies that have made significant recent progress in addressing the challenge of insuring poor smallholder farmers and pastoralists in the developing world. In India, national index insurance programmes have reached over 30 million farmers through a mandatory link with agricultural credit and strong government support. In East Africa (Kenya, Rwanda and Tanzania), the Agriculture and Climate Risk Enterprise (ACRE) has recently scaled to reach nearly 200,000 farmers, bundling index insurance with agricultural credit and farm inputs.

  8. Library Resource
    Conference Papers & Reports
    January, 2013
    Cambodia, China, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam, Asia

    This provides an overview of the second Mekong Hydropower Forum held in Hanoi, November 13-15, 2013.

  9. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2010
    Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Chad, Chile, China, Colombia, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Honduras, India, Iran, Kenya, Laos, Malawi, Mexico, Nepal, Niger, Nigeria, Pakistan, Peru, South Africa, Sudan, Thailand, Vietnam, Zimbabwe, Southern Africa, South America, Western Africa, Middle Africa, Eastern Africa, Central America, Western Asia, Northern Africa, Southern Asia, South-Eastern Asia

    IN response to an on-line survey, 76 project leaders and staff gave CPWF Phase 1 a

    generally favorable review. Respondents came from 68 CPWF projects in 45 countries on

    three continents. The survey sought to help learn what went well in Phase 1, what did not

    go so well and can be improved in Phase 2.

    Nearly three-quarters of respondents felt that they had achieved different research results,

    outcomes and impacts as a result of participation in the CPWF than otherwise possible from

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