Collection of 12 short policy briefs arising from collaborative work between CGIAR, UNDP’s Drylands Development Center and the International Land Coalition.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchFebruary, 2006Africa
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchNovember, 2014Myanmar
Forestry Water Management, Landscape Approach and Land Management in Kachin State, northern Myanmar.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchJuly, 2010China, Asia
The Yellow River Basin (YRB) Focal Project set out to study water poverty, water
availability and access, water productivity, and water and related institutions in the
Yellow River basin to develop and rank a series of high-priority interventions aimed at
increasing water and food security for the poor, while maintaining environmental
sustainability. The YBFP identified complex relations between water and poverty in the
YRB; identified streamflow declines in the basin despite predicted higher rainfall;
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Library ResourceMarch, 2015Ethiopia, Tanzania, Uganda, Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2009
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2010India, Asia
This paper applies the principles of water-use accounts, developed in the first of the
series, to the Indus River basin in South Asia. The Indus Basin covers 3 countries, rises
in the Tibetan plateau in the vicinity of Lake Mansarovar in China. Irrigated agriculture
in the Basin is extensive with the construction of dams, barrages, and link canals to
distribute water, with modern engineering to support irrigation starting as early as the
mid 1800s.
Net runoff is about 10% of total precipitation. Irrigated agriculture covers 20% of
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2010Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, South-Eastern Asia
This paper applies the principles of water-use accounts, developed in the first of the series, to the Mekong River basin in Southeast Asia. The Mekong Basin covers six
countries, the River rises in China, but there are substantial downstream tributaries
from Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam, and from a small area in Myanmar. A
unique feature is the reverse flow from the Mekong to the Tonle Sap via the Tonle Sap
River at the height of the wet season flow and its ebb as the river levels fall.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2010Brazil, South America
This paper applies the principles of water-use accounts, developed in the first of the
series, to the São Francisco basin in South America. The São Francisco Basin lies wholly
within Brazil. There are several major dams and wetlands in the Basin.
Net runoff is about 16% of total precipitation. Grassland is the most extensive land use,
covering 59% of the Basin and uses 48% of the water. Rainfed agriculture covers 23%
of the basin, but uses 14% of the water in the Basin. Forest and woodland cover 16% of
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2010China, Asia
This paper applies the principles of water-use accounts, developed in the first of the
series, to the Yellow River basin in China. The Yellow River rises in the Bayan Har
Mountains in Qinghai Province in western China, and empties into the Bohai Sea. A
unique feature of the river is the large amount of silt it carries.
Net runoff is about 14% of total precipitation. Forest and woodland cover 9% of the
basin and use about 15% of the precipitation. Grassland covers much of the upper part
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2013Asia, Eastern Asia, China, South-Eastern Asia, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, VietnamWorldFish is working with partners in the Mekong Region to support a new alliance of regional and local partners that will contribute towards sustainable wetlands management that benefit the poor. This project supports the Wetlands Alliance, an extensive network of organizations —government, civil and NGOs— actively engaged in developing innovative solutions to poverty alleviation. The Alliance helps local partners to build the capacity they need to work effectively with communities that they are supporting.
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