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Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in Latin America and the Caribbean

Reports & Research
Policy Papers & Briefs
September, 2008
Dominican Republic, Mexico, Chile, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Argentina, Colombia, Brazil, Latin America and the Caribbean
Urban Tenure
agriculture
farmers
urbanization
This study on Latin America is based on a sample of eight countries, comprising the big four economies of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Mexico; Colombia and Ecuador, two of the poorest South American tropical countries; the Dominican Republic, the largest Caribbean economy; and Nicaragua, the poorest country in Central America. Together, in 2000-04, these countries accounted for 78 percent of the region's population, 80 percent of the region's agricultural value added, and 84 percent of the total gross domestic product (GDP) of Latin America.
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A summing up: Synthesis 2007: Changing the way we manage water for food, livelihoods, health and the environment

Reports & Research
December, 2008
Bangladesh, 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
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
water management
rangelands
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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A2: On assessing and anticipating the consequences of introducing benefit-sharing mechanisms

July, 2009
Bolivia, Chad, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, South America
water management
This project is about showing whether BSM are effective. It seeks to quantify the consequences of BSM-driven changes in land and water management for livelihoods in upstream rural communities, and for water supplies for downstream water consumers. It will develop methods to anticipate ex ante the likely consequences of introducing BSM as well as monitoring and measuring these consequences ex post.
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AN 4: Andes coordination project

Reports & Research
May, 2010
Bolivia, Chad, Chile, Colombia, Peru, South America
water management
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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Analysis of successful water management experiences in Andea region basins

Conference Papers & Reports
November, 2011
Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, South America
water management
This study shows that to achieve successful water management in the Andean region, certain conditions must be in place. These conditions are: participation of all involved actors; dialogue and agreement; transparency; access to adequate and timely

information; having a bas in approach; articulation of conservation and productive processes; capacity building and local leader

ship strengthening.
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Analysis of successful water management experiences in Andean Region basins

Conference Papers & Reports
November, 2011
Chad, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, South America
water management
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Beyond the Market. Recognizing those who take care of water

Policy Papers & Briefs
November, 2011
Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela, South America
From the start of the 1990s, the issue of Environmental Services has attracted the attention of conservationists, development organizations and donors, who have been interested in seeking and supporting new strategies for financing conservati on and, additionally, in some cases, for diversifying the income of rural communities.By the logic of the market, the principal proposal is the Payment for Ecosystem Services: “a voluntary transaction for an environmental service, in which at least one buyer and one seller participate; the environmental service is well-defined; and the provider of the
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Comunicaciones en el Andes BDC

December, 2012
Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, Bolivia, South America
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CPWF Andes challenges and opportunities

November, 2013
Chile, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, South America
climate change
The printable flyer provides a short overview of the challenges and opportunites found in the Andes basin development challenge on water and food.
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CPWF Andes key messages Photos and posters

December, 2012
Chile, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, South America
natural resources management
water management