Majority of the populace in the Upper West Region of Ghana are small-scale farmers who depend mainly on rain-fed agriculture. However, rainfall pattern is uni-modal (April – September) and variable thus making agriculture quite challenging. This has resulted in poverty and food insecurity with…
Le Burkina Faso, pays soudano-sahe?lien, est caracte?rise? par une irre?gularite? pluviome?trique. Dans sa partie sahe?lienne, la production agricole est faible. Cela oblige les populations a? s'orienter vers des strate?gies d'adaptation comme la production marai?che?re autour des…
Replicating successful agricultural water management interventions in new locations requires consideration of economic, biophysical, institutional, and cultural data. The TAGMI tool offers one way to consider such factors, when targeting agricultural water management interventions.
Innovation platforms provide spaces for a wide range of stakeholders to exchange knowledge, learn, and develop joint initiatives to solve agricultural development challenges. Successful innovation can only happen when stakeholders have a sustained interest in working together to acquire new…
Trade-offs between agricultural intensification and the health status of aquatic ecosystems have to be thoroughly considered in order to ensure the sustainability of these socio-eco-agro-ecosystems.
Successful integrated water resources management depends on interactions between multiple actors at different scales, which is often beyond everyday considerations. The companion modeling-approach is a good framework to highlight interactions between actors and allows for a collective decision-…
High-quality scientific research, grounded in regular engagement with stakeholders, will improve the uptake of research results and lead to outcomes.
Face aux de?fis de l’e?radication de la pauvrete? et la gestion de l’environnement, l’Etat burkinabe? a adopte? depuis 1998, les principes de la Gestion Inte?gre?e des Ressources en Eau (GIRE). La strate?gie pour atteindre cet objectif se traduit notamment par la mise en place au niveau local de…
In developing countries, where many basins are ungauged or poorly gauged, small reservoirs could be used as hydrometric stations for estimating runoff of small watersheds upstream of the dams. Thus, hydrological monitoring of dam is essential in water resources management by predicting where…