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CPWF Annual Report 2009

Reports & Research
December, 2010
Eritrea, Peru, Bangladesh, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil, Burkina Faso, China, Colombia, Ecuador, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, Honduras, India, Iran, Kenya, Laos, Mali, Mozambique, Nepal, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, South Africa, Sudan, Thailand, Togo, Uganda, Vietnam, Zimbabwe, Western Africa, Southern Asia, South-Eastern Asia, Middle Africa, Central Asia, Eastern Africa, Central America, South America, Western Asia, Northern Africa, Southern Africa
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
water management
rangelands
The CPWF was designed to be different. Developed in response to a call for change in a previous round of Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) system

reform, the CPWF was intended to foster cross-CGIAR cooperation and find ways to bring in new partners. Over time the CPWF has successfully broadened the CGIAR’s sources of

innovative research on water and food. Through its broad partnerships, the program conducts research that leads to positive impact on the poor and to policy change. The CPWF does this by
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Food and water security under global change: Developing adaptive capacity with a focus on rural Africa

Reports & Research
April, 2010
Ethiopia, South Africa, Middle Africa
farming systems
water 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
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L1: Targeting and scaling out

August, 2010
Botswana, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Southern Africa
Despite hosting some of the most developed sub Saharan countries, a majority of rural smallholder farmers in the Limpopo basin still live in poverty. The challenge of low and highly variable rainfall together with inadequate technology transfers, inadequate policy and investment context all act to disable successful transitions out of poverty. The CPWF Phase I identified several opportunities to manage rainfall in more efficient and productive manners at field to basin scales.
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L2: Reworked Project proposal-Small-scale Water Infrastructure

August, 2010
South Africa, Zimbabwe, Southern Africa
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
water management
rangelands
The Limpopo Basin is prone to frequent droughts and short season rainfall making agricultural production a very risky enterprise. The need assist to farmers and rural communities to optimize the utilization of low rainwater and existing SWI to boost agricultural productivity, standard of living and reduce poverty.
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L3: On Farm systems and risk management

April, 2010
South Africa, Zimbabwe, Southern Africa
water management
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
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L5: Learning for innovation and adaptive management: Coordination Project Project Lead Organization: FANRPAN

August, 2010
South Africa, Zimbabwe, Southern Africa
water management
The Coordination and Change project of the Limpopo Basin Development Challenge (L5) is designed to help the four BDC projects conduct quality, coherent, and problem oriented research to contribute to beneficial change in the basin. L5 will develop and implement a communication and knowledge management strategy to facilitate integration of the major activities; capture, store and distribute relevant data; and identify and address capacity building needs—both within the BDC team—and among key external stakeholders.
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Learning from Phase I: A Survey of Project Leaders and Staff

Reports & Research
December, 2010
Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Chad, Chile, China, Colombia, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Honduras, India, Iran, Kenya, Laos, Malawi, Mexico, Nepal, Niger, Nigeria, Pakistan, Peru, South Africa, Sudan, Thailand, Vietnam, Zimbabwe, Southern Africa, South America, Western Africa, Middle Africa, Eastern Africa, Central America, Western Asia, Northern Africa, Southern Asia, South-Eastern Asia
water management
IN response to an on-line survey, 76 project leaders and staff gave CPWF Phase 1 a

generally favorable review. Respondents came from 68 CPWF projects in 45 countries on

three continents. The survey sought to help learn what went well in Phase 1, what did not

go so well and can be improved in Phase 2.

Nearly three-quarters of respondents felt that they had achieved different research results,

outcomes and impacts as a result of participation in the CPWF than otherwise possible from
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Trade-offs between livelihoods and wetland ecosystem services: An integrated dynamic model of Ga-Mampa wetland South Africa

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2010
South Africa, Africa, Southern Africa
land cover
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Water rights in informal economies in the Limpopo and Volta basins

Reports & Research
January, 2010
Burkina Faso, Ghana, Mozambique, South Africa, South-Eastern Asia, Africa
water management
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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Water use accounts in CPWF basins: Simple water use accounting of the Limpopo Basin

Reports & Research
December, 2010
Botswana, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Africa
water management