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Library ResourceOctober, 2015India
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchMarch, 2010India, Asia
CPWF-IWMI “Basin Focal Project for the Indus-Gangetic Basin” is an initiative by the CPWF, to
identify steps to be taken towards integrated management of the IGB’s water and land resources
to improve productivity and ensure future sustainability of all production and ecosystems in the
basin. The project was developed with the objective of conducting basin-wide analysis of the
conditions, constraints and opportunities for improving agricultural water productivity and
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchAugust, 2009India, Asia
“The Strategic Analysis of India’s National River Linking Project”: In 2005, the
International Water Management Institute (IWMI) and the Challenge Program on Water
and Food (CPWF) started a three-year research study on “Strategic Analysis of India’s River Linking Project”. The primary focus of the IWMI-CPWF project is to provide the public and the policy planners with a balanced analysis of the social benefits and costs ofthe National River Linking Project (NRLP).
The project consists of research in three phases. Phase I analyzed India’s water future
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Library ResourceOctober, 2015India, Southern Asia
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Library ResourceDecember, 2014India, Sri Lanka, South-Eastern Asia
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchJanuary, 2015Rwanda, Ethiopia, India, Kenya, Mongolia, Senegal, Tanzania, Western Africa, Africa, Asia, Central Asia, Eastern Africa, Southern Asia
This report explores evidence and insights from five case studies that have made significant recent progress in addressing the challenge of insuring poor smallholder farmers and pastoralists in the developing world. In India, national index insurance programmes have reached over 30 million farmers through a mandatory link with agricultural credit and strong government support. In East Africa (Kenya, Rwanda and Tanzania), the Agriculture and Climate Risk Enterprise (ACRE) has recently scaled to reach nearly 200,000 farmers, bundling index insurance with agricultural credit and farm inputs.
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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 & ReportsApril, 2012Bangladesh, India, Southern Asia
Phase II of the CGIAR Challenge Program for Water and Food (CPWF) is a multi-institutional and inter-disciplinary research for development initiative focused on increasing the resilience of social and ecological systems through better water management for food production.Phase II in the Ganges Basin began in 2011 and is scheduled to end in 2014.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2013India, Southern Asia, Asia
Employs participatory approach to rehabilitate common property resources by developing biodiesel plantations through 1) consortium approach among govt. line departments, NGOs, CBOs, and ICRISAT; and 2) collective action
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2016India
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