This project aims to increase agricultural productivity, incomes, and sustainable management of

land and water by small farmers in the rural Sierra region of Peru. Although results demonstrate

the effectiveness of increased productivity and commercialization of high value agricultural

commodities, this type of activity may be limited to certain parts of the watershed with access to

irrigation and startup capital. Interventions promoting commercialization, such as those of

Soil erosion is a major problem in the Yellow River Basin: the river is one of the most

sediment-laden in the world. Although there is a rainfall gradient from 750 mm in southern

Shandong, to 200mm per year in northern Ningxia, most of the rainfed cropping area is in

regions with more than 400 mm per year – it is here that the project concentrated.

Conservation agriculture (featuring reduced or zero tillage, mulch retention, crop rotations

and cover crops) offers a possible solution to problems of soil erosion and low crop

The CPWF Project PN50 “Enhancing multi-scale water governance” was a flagship activity

of the Mekong Program on Water, Environment Resilience (M-POWER). The goal of

helping improve livelihood security, human and ecosystem health in the Mekong Region

through democratizing water governance was pursued through critical research and

direct engagement with stakeholders involved in managing floods, irrigation,

hydropower, watersheds, fisheries and urban water works at various scales. We

This project seeks to define the interplay between market access, crop and livestock technologies, and investment risks in water- and market-scarce environments that leads to technology adoption by farm families, enabling them to enhance food security and incomes through more efficient water use.

Water efficient farm enterprises and climate risk management

Food and Water Security under Global Change: Developing Adaptive Capacity

with a Focus on Rural Africa

The project “Food and Water Security under Global Change: Developing Adaptive

Capacity with a Focus on Rural Africa” aimed to provide farmers, policymakers,

and other stakeholders in Ethiopia and South Africa with tools to make better

adaptive decisions in the face of climate-related risk. The project combined

household surveys and stakeholder forums, which examined local perceptions of

Assessing available land and water resources for irrigation is important for planning their use. This study was initiated with the objective of assessing the water and land resources potential of river catchments in Dale Woreda of Sidama Zone for irrigation development and generating geo-referenced map of these resources by using Geographic Information System. Watershed delineation, identification of potential irrigable land, and estimation of irrigation water requirement and surface water resources of river catchments were the steps followed to assess this irrigation potential.

In 2005, irrigated vegetables were identified as one of the marketable commodities by the stakeholders participating in the IPMS project. At the time, most vegetables were grown in gravity fed traditional and modern irrigation schemes getting water from two micro dams constructed by the Cubans during the previous government.

This project is about scaling up to the catchment level the results obtained from optimizing the management of individual reservoirs. As such, it draws on results from MKs 1 and 2. It seeks to understand at the catchment scale the cumulative upstream and downstream consequences of management decisions taken for multiple reservoirs. It includes the study of land degradation and reservoir siltation processes.

This project is about showing whether RMSs are effective. It will seek to quantify the consequences of improved RMS for community livelihoods, resource productivity, land quality, and downstream water quality and siltation. It will specifically measure the downstream, cross-scale consequences of successful innovation in the Ethiopian highlands.

This project will develop methods to anticipate ex ante the likely consequences of introducing improved RMS as well as monitoring and measuring these consequences ex post. Finally, it will introduce methods for adaptive management.

The Livelihood Resilience project evolved around the hypothesis that better integrated

management can improve the livelihoods of poor farming communities and increase the

environmental integrity and water productivity of upstream watersheds in dry areas. This

hypothesis was tested by researchers from different Iranian research and executive organizations

and farming communities in two benchmark research watersheds in upper Karkheh River Basin in

Iran, under the guidance of the ICARDA scientists. Participatory technology development, water,