This reports summarizes and synthesizes activities and achievements of the CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food (CPWF) through the end of 2007. The CPWF is an intiative of the CGIAR designed to take on the global challenge of water scarcity and food security.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2008Bangladesh, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Chad, Chile, China, Colombia, Ecuador, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Honduras, India, Iran, Kenya, Laos, Mali, Mozambique, Nepal, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Peru, South Africa, Sudan, Thailand, Togo, Uganda, Vietnam, Zimbabwe, Western Africa, Middle Africa, Africa, Asia, Central America, South America, Western Asia, Southern Asia, South-Eastern Asia, Southern Africa
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchMay, 2010Bolivia, Chad, Chile, Colombia, Peru, South America
The Basin Leader leads this project team which is responsible for coherence of the overall BDC research program by ensuring BDC research remains problem- opportunity- and impact-focused. For the duration of the project, the Basin Leader will work for the CPWF, through a secondment arrangement to be negotiated with CONDESAN. The Basin Leader will report to both the CPWF Research and Innovation & Impact Directors, and will be supervised by the appropriate CPWF Director among them
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2005Chile, South America
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Library ResourceConference Papers & ReportsNovember, 2011Chad, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, South America
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2009Peru, South America
The CPWF Basin Focal Project for the Andes system of basins worked with a range of local
stakeholders to develop a better understanding of the mechanisms for improving the
productivity of water in the Andes. We considered productivity in broad terms as the
productivity of energy (HEP), food and fiber (agriculture) and livelihoods (industry, transport
and benefit sharing such as Payments for Environmental Services schemes (PES)).
In addition to the compiled data bases and analyses on poverty and institutions, one of the
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2007Bolivia, South America
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2006Kenya, Uganda, Peru, Sudan, Ecuador, Bolivia, India, Ethiopia, Colombia, Asia, Africa, South America, Southern Asia
There are many options for enhancing food production from fish in managed aquatic systems.The most appropriate technology, however, will vary from place to place, and the conditions under which one technology is prefered over another are still not well defined.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2011Colombia, South America
A central challenge for effective watershed
management is improving the welfare of residents who
live in upper catchments while providing adequate
environmental goods and services to people and
areas downstream. A CPWF project, Sustaining
Collective Action Linking Economic and Ecological
Scales in Upper Watersheds (SCALES), addressed
this challenge in three sites.1 This document is an
evaluation of a project activity that intended to
enhance collective action in one site: the Coello
watershed of Colombia.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksNovember, 2013Senegal, Mauritania, Mali, Burkina Faso, Algeria, Niger, Nigeria, Chad, Sudan, South Sudan, Eritrea, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Ethiopia, Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Belize, Cape Verde, Comoros, Bahamas, Barbados, Benin, Botswana, Burundi, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Cook Islands, Côte d'Ivoire, Cuba, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Fiji, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Grenada, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Equatorial Guinea, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Kenya, Kiribati, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Marshall Islands, Mauritius, Micronesia, Mozambique, Namibia, Nauru, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Solomon Islands, Samoa, Sao Tome and Principe, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Suriname, Eswatini, Tanzania, Timor-Leste, Togo, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tuvalu, Uganda, Vanuatu, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Africa, Eastern Africa, Southern Asia, South-Eastern Asia, Western Africa, Middle Africa
To ensure a food-secure future, farming must become climate resilient. Around the world, governments and communities are adopting innovations that are improving the lives of millions while reducing agriculture’s climate footprint. These successful examples show the many ways climate-smart agriculture can take shape, and should serve as inspiration for future policies and investments.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2007Bolivia, South America
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