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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2013Southern Africa, Western Africa, Eastern Africa
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchMarch, 2010South Africa, Southern Africa
This report is a synthesis of research implemented for the project on Wetlands-based livelihoods in the Limpopo basin: balancing social welfare and environmental security. The research was motivated by the dependency of many people on wetlands for their livelihoods. It was therefore founded on the basis that the potential of wetlands to contribute to livelihoods is closely related to their ability to maintain ecosytem functions (such as regulating river flows), which is a consequence of their unique hydrological characteristics.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchJanuary, 2010Burkina Faso, Ghana, Mozambique, South Africa, South-Eastern Asia, Africa
Most African countries underwent water legislation reform since the 1990s, through
which existing plural legal systems were changed into nation-wide permit systems, in
which the state acts as custodian of the nation’s water resources. Although globally
heralded as the best way to manage water resources within the broader context of
Integrated Water Resource Management, this project examines the problematic
implications of the new laws for the majority of the rural and peri-urban poor. Since time
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Library ResourceConference Papers & ReportsDecember, 2008Zimbabwe, Africa, Southern Africa
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Library ResourceConference Papers & ReportsNovember, 2011Southern Africa, Africa
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchJuly, 2009Colombia, India, Laos, Niger, Asia, South-Eastern Asia, Southern Africa, South America
The CPWF-supported project ‘Models for implementing multiple-use water supply
systems for enhanced land and water productivity, rural livelihoods and gender equity’
(‘CPWF-MUS’) innovated, tested, and documented homestead-scale and communityscale
models for Multiple Use water Services in 30 rural and peri-urban sites in 8
countries: the Andes (Bolivia and Colombia), Indus-Ganges (India, Nepal), Limpopo
(South Africa and Zimbabwe), Mekong (Thailand) and Nile (Ethiopia). Learning alliances
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchMarch, 2010Zimbabwe, Southern Africa
The Challenge of Integrated Water Resource Management for Improved Rural Livelihoods:
Managing Risk, Mitigating Drought and Improving Water Productivity in the Water Scarce Limpopo
Basin: Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) is a systems approach to water
management, based on the principle of managing the full water cycle. It is required, not only to
balance water for food and nature, but also to unlock paths to sustainable development. A global
hotspot area in terms of water for food and improved livelihoods is in the poverty stricken rural
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Library ResourceConference Papers & ReportsNovember, 2011Africa, Southern Africa
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2011Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Ghana, India, Kenya, Laos, South Africa, Thailand, Vietnam, Africa, Asia, South-Eastern Asia
This working paper reviews the experiences of the Challenge Program on Water and Food (CPWF) with 14 “small
grants for impact” that were contracted in early 2006 and operated for periods of 12 to 18 months. For a total
investment of under US$1 million – less than the equivalent of a typical 3-5 year CPWF research for development
project in Phase 1, the small grant projects made significant contributions to identifying water and food technology
for specific end users (thus showing the potential of CPWF research in general); to better understanding of
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Library ResourceConference Papers & ReportsDecember, 2013Ghana, Kenya, South Africa, Sudan, Sub-Saharan Africa, Africa
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