Basin Development Challenges - Stakeholder Consultation Workshop Report - Volta River Basin

Report from consultation workshop conducted on November 25-26, i.e. before the beginning of CPWF phase 2.The overall objective of this workshop was to consult key stakeholders knowledgeable about the proposed Volta BDC on how research can best contribute to tackling the BDC. In the Volta, the proposed BDC was “Rainwater management and small reservoirs in Northern Ghana and Burkina Faso”. A brief description of the proposed BDC, taken from the CPWF’s 2010 – 2013 Medium Term Plan, was sent to orientate the participants before the workshop (see Annex 1). Participants were invited to the workshop to provide advice on how research can best contribute to the BDC, thus helping the CPWF Management Team design the BDC research program (Step 3 in Table 1). The specific objectives are shown in Figure 1 together with the process that was followed to achieve them. The process used elements of Participatory Impact Pathway Analysis (PIPA)1 and incorporated lessons learned in conducting similar consultations in other basins

Synthesis 2006

The purpose of this report is to summarize and synthesize activities and achievements of the CPWF through the end of 2006. The CPWF is a CGIAR Challenge Program designed to take on the global challenge of water scarcity and food security. It takes the form of an international, multi-institutional research-for-development initiative that brings together scientists, development specialists, and river basin communities in Africa, Asia and Latin America. It seeks to create and disseminate international public goods (IPGs) helpful in achieving food security, reducing poverty, improving livelihoods, reducing agriculture–related pollution, and enhancing environmental security. This Challenge Program is a three-phase, 15-year endeavor. Several years have passed since the start of Phase 1 (2003-2008) which began with an inception phase in 2003 and was followed by full CPWF launch in January 2004. Research projects began field operations in mid-2004. This synthesis report, then, only describes work carried out in the first two and a half years of the Program. During this time, CPWF has conducted its research on water and food in nine benchmark basins, organized around five different themes. This work is being implemented through “first call projects”, “basin focal projects”, “small grant projects” and “synthesis research”. This present report is one example of the latter. CPWF projects have made considerable progress in developing innovative technologies, policies and institutions to address water and food issues. Some projects focused on improving agricultural water productivity. Others focused on developing mechanisms to inform multi-stakeholder dialogue and negotiation, or explored ways to value water used to produce ecosystem services. Advances were also made in understanding water-foodpoverty links, and their regional and global policy context

A new perspective on the impacts of irrigation on fisheries with emphasis on rice-based farming systems

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A new perspective on the impacts of irrigation on fisheries with emphasis on rice-based farming systems

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Fish Capture and Culture in Agro-Ecosystems: A New Concept for Old Practice?

Modern fisheries management is strongly based on ecosystem theory. Ecosystem management involves direct manipulation of the habitat and population as well as human activity in order to optimize sustainable returns to humans. The ecosystems approach is widely viewed as a new concept in management of fisheries and aquaculture. Ecosystems based management has however a long history of practice in rain fed and flood prone agro-ecosystems in China and Southeast Asia. Inland fisheries and aquaculture are inseparable components of these systems. We argue that aquatic resource management problems cannot be addressed without due consideration of their socio-economic and agro-ecological context. We conclude that conventional ecosystem based management does not sufficiently capture the complex linkages between inland fisheries and aquaculture, and wider services provided by the ecosystems of which they are part. Inland fisheries and aquaculture management instead should be based on agro-ecosystems management concepts in order to better capture their social and economic objectives within the context of overall ecosystem service provision