Third International Forum on Water and Food

Overview

Amanda Harding

The Big Question

Is Agriculture and NRM R4D relevant and pertinent to addressing current and future water and food challenges?

From a Project PerspectiveFrom a Basin/regional Perspective From an African perspective…From a Global perspective

The IFWF3 objectives … and how

Objectives:1. Ensure cross-basin learning

across key common areas2. Take stock of the opportunities

and challenges and anticipated significant results with a view to further improvements across all basins, and potential scaling up and out

3. Further strengthen confidence, vision and identity across the CPWF community

How: Use Topic Working Groups –

common areas as entry point for exchanges

Capitalize integrated basin-based research

Assess progress for each of the BDC’s

Highlight past, emerging or present significant results

Anticipate key emerging messages (project to basin, Africa to global)

Six basins and their specific BDC’sAndes increase

productivity & reduce conflicts

selected basins benefit-sharing mechanisms

Ganges increase resilience coastal areas Integrated Agri- & Aquaculture systems

Limpopo increase productivity & reduce poverty

rainwater and small infrastructures

improving management

Mekong reduce poverty large reservoirs optimizing water use

Nile strenghten rural livelihoods

rainwater landscape approach

Volta increase productivity & reduce poverty

rainwater and small reservoirs

improving management

Opportunities to Contribute, e.g. Volta BDCOpening-day success stories

Inspiring 5 mn introductions

G-Eau and partners 1

Basin messages & TWGs sessions

selected presentations + open list of short talks

Gh: WRI + SARIBf: 2iE + INERA

4

Share fair & exchange events

material for unformal discussions

All US$ 14,000

IFWF3: Agenda

2-pager template for the IFWF3 Please fill the boxes as described below.

Authors & Project number Forum session (Opening, Basin, TWG)

Key message (1-2 sentences): Short abstract (< 150 words) Preliminary highlights

> 3/4 per project

< July 15th 2011

Submit to IFWF3 Organising Committee by 15 July 2011

www.waterandfood.org/ifwf3

Amanda Hardingsipan@wanadoo.fr