Alain VIDAL, CPWF Director

The CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food

Where it is, where it is going, why it is different

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Re-greening the Uganda “Cattle Corridor”

Community corralling of cattle for 2 weeks

permits pasture establishment

Local organizations invest in up-scaling of pasture regeneration

Termites destroy any attempt to reseed degraded pasture

Global food crisis: a poverty “countdown”3 billion poor below US$2.5/day2 billion suffer from malnutrition1 billion suffer from hunger 75% of them are rural poor Alleviating hunger means reducing

rural poverty

Reducing rural poverty Increase the income of the rural poor to

enable food security and investment into productivity Ensure they can cope with short-term and

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The resilience challengeFood production communities and ecosystems should be able to cope with local and global changes (climate, economy, demography, migrations…), ie become more resilient Achieved through improved water

productivity (more food with less water) together with empowerment, equity, market access, health and ecosystemservices

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Mobilize triggers for change between alternate resilient states

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SWater depletion, grazing pressure, loss of soil organic matter

Manure applied through night corralling provides a preferred diet for the termites

Wet Season:Dry matter 4.5 T/ha9 species / m²

Wet Season:Dry matter 0 T/ha0 species / m²

CPWF aims to increase the resilience of social and ecological systems through better water management for food production

Through its broad partnerships, it conducts research that leads to impact on the poor and to policy change

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CPWF Phase 2(2009-2014)

Focusing on achievable impacts in 6 river basins

Focusing the CPWF strategyFocusing on science content found most promising and with development impact within the 15 year CPWF time frame, and contributing to emerging CGIAR CRPs (CRP5 Land, Water & Ecosystems)Addressing 1-2 development challenges in specific parts of each basin 1 basin development program = USD 5-6 million investment into 4-5 linked projects

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Six basin development challengesAndes – Benefit-sharing mechanismsMekong – Dams and livelihoodsNile – Rainwater management in EthiopiaVolta – Small reservoirs, rainwater and livelihoodsLimpopo – Small reservoirs, rainwater and livelihoodsGanges – Floods and salt in the Delta

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Operationalizing Phase 2 - BDCs

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Proposals approvedStart May 2011

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Operationalizing Phase 2 - Program

How we work

Guided by core principles: working in partnership adaptive management capacity development gender and interdisciplinary integration accountability

Linking research to impact through compelling basin development challenges and ‘outcome pathways’ Seeking insight across projects and basins

In other words…Projects contribute to achieving the BDC - hence should adhere to core principlesBasin focus but mechanisms in place to ensure cross basin learning - TWGsOur whole Program Team in place to make integrated process workAbility to scale up, replicate, influence and contribute to policy change

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Topic Working GroupsThe example of resilience

What are Topic Working Groups?Communities of practice that address specific, well-defined issues of water and food in several CPWF basinsAims Facilitate cross-basin learning through various interactive

ways, including virtual communication Help build capacity of basin teams through sharing of

experiences and mentoring Facilitate cross-basin research Produce topic-specific syntheses and other generic outputs

Status of TWGsTWG on Multiple Use Systems - stand-by JP Met in Feb 2010 - Lead: Vacant

TWG on Resilience – operational Alain Launched in March 2011 - Lead: Line Gordon and Elin Enfors, SEI/SRC

TWG on Global DriversAmanda To be launched soon - Lead: Simon Cook, former BFP coordinator

TWG on Learning to Innovate (Basin Leaders) Funke Launched during BLs workshop, Vientiane, Jan 2011 - Lead: Boru

Douthwaite, Innovation and Impact Director

Other TWGs under discussion Spatial Analysis Modeling Research to Policy (Africa) Benefit-sharing Mechanisms Rainwater Management

Resilience ?

Ability to maintain functioning despite stress, shocks or disturbance

Reflects ability of system to self-organize; build capacity for learning and adaptation

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Resilience Analysis: looking at our BDCs with a “resilience lens”

Describing the system Structure – scales, boundaries, governance/institutions Values/importance - goods and services, threats and shocks Historical profile – events and responses

System dynamics Specified resilience

Resilience of specific parts Thresholds, feedbacks Slow and fast drivers

General resilience – system coping capacity Adaptive cycles

Options for intervention

Restoring ecosystem services in the Andes

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Annual net income:2,183/ha

Annual net income:US$ 1,870/ha

Conservation agriculture and paramo restoration supported by revolving fund

Farmers‘ insufficient gain and risk aversion: only 11% converted

Revolving fund credit: +180 farmers /year

Potato cropping, grazing pressure, degradation of paramo

Thank youa.vidal@cgiar.org

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