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  1. Library Resource
    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

    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.

  2. Library Resource
    June, 2013
    Burkina Faso, Ghana, Western Africa

    Main message

    Farmers in Volta Basin Development Challenge project sites are generally not developing brand new practices on their own. Information about new technologies is slowly spreading from projects to the wider community, but adoption of these technologies could be strengthened by creating an enabling environment. This would mean taking into account the five determinants of adoption identified here and programming accordingly.

  3. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    August, 2013
    Burkina Faso, Ghana, Western Africa

    Within the agricultural development sector, innovation has been identified as a primary pathway to achieve economic, social and environmental goals. Innovation is traditionally defined as a linear and relatively homogenous process involving the invention of a “new” technology that is then transferred and adopted by an intended user.

  4. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2009
    Burkina Faso, Ghana, Western Africa

    The Basin Focal Project Volta (BFP Volta) was developed along three main steps:

    Assessment of present conditions of the distribution of rural poverty, of farming

    systems with their productivity and water productivity;

    Analysis of opportunities and risks, especially under the double pressure of demography

    and possible climate change, and modeling of water resources to identify sensitivity of

    water allocation to development and climate scenarios; and

    Identification of research gaps and implementation plan.

  5. Library Resource
    September, 2013
    Burkina Faso, Ghana, Western Africa

    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 Comite?s Locaux de l’Eau (CLE). Cependant, la complexite? les droits de proprie?te? sur l’eau est souvent un de?fi pour la mise en place d’activite?s pratiques.

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