10 years of research for development through engagement with the rural poor
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10 years of research for development through engagement with the rural poor Alain Vidal, Director CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food
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Presented at the Africa Agriculture Science week in Accra, Ghana on July 17th 2013, during CPWF's side event ‘Engagement platforms for food and water security: opportunities to harness innovation to improve livelihoods and resilience in Africa’
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10 years of research for development through engagement with the rural poor
Alain Vidal, DirectorCGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food
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Water, food and poverty analyzed in 10 basins
1.5 billion people50% of the poorest < 1.25US$/day
There is enough water to meet our needs, it’s how we manage it !
Sustainable intensification Beyond a focus on productivity Income and ecosystem services
Equitable sharing of benefits from water Finding balanced solutions
Institutional water management A holistic approach to avoid fragmentation among actors
Addressed through basin-focused research programs addressing a major development issue in each basin
Policy dialogues, stakeholders engagement, outcomes and impact
Research… evidence-based
to deeply understand complex and even wicked problems
development challenges of relevance to those living in a basin
and target interventions or solutions… through engagement and learning processes…
where stakeholder behavior is influenced and outcomes achieved
Engaged and informed stakeholders themselves choose to change practice because they perceive as to their own advantage
Outcomes stories
Engagement platforms…out of Africa
MEKONG
GANGES
ANDES
Mekong: Hydropower and livelihoodsTechniques, land and water uses identified that can increase benefits available to riparian communities
Fish-rice systemsArtificial wetlands in reservoirs
Add value for both dam builders and communitiesDialogue processes identifying institutional weaknesses and providing solutions
Ganges: Sustainable intensification of polders… is almost all about engagement
Lots of viable cropping systems possible with cropdiversification, fish and shrimpBut it’s all about water control !Need for political changes at national and local levels
Canal maintenance and managementShifting from rice monoculture
Rice Shrimp
Upper threshold limit of salinity - Rice
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Lower threshold limit of salinity - Shrimp
Daily water salinity
Andes: Benefit-sharing mechanisms …with an engine
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Annual net income:2,183/ha
Annual net income:US$ 1,870/ha
Conservation agriculture and paramo restoration supported by revolving fund
Farmers‘ insufficient gain and risk aversion
Revolving fund credit: +180 farmers /year
Potato cropping, grazing pressure, degradation of paramo
No impact without engagementEnhanced resilience requires engagement Combined technical and institutional
innovations prevent social-ecological systems from moving to undesired state when shocked
Social learning process leads to innovation at different levels : project, basin, and globalSelf sustaining innovation - not inventions bringing about new things - dealing differently with a problem « Africans solve African problems »
