Comprehensive Assessment
of Water Management in Agriculture
CA Info Brief No. 10
- 24 April 2006 -
The
CA assesses current knowledge and experience to identify the most effective
investment and management decisions in water management for agriculture for
reducing poverty and enhancing food and environmental security.
Apologies for Cross-Postings
News
on the assessment synthesis
The
comprehensive assessment synthesis book has entered its final step. Key
messages are being summarized in an independent section: the CA Summary for
Decision Makers. This section will be available as an individual document at
the August Stockholm Water Week.
Please
share with your partners and get involved! URGENT
Participate in the Global Art competition to illustrate messages
on water for food and Life of the CA. Deadline extended to 15 May 2006
The CA, SIWI, RAMSAR, CBD, FAO, FANCA, Challenge Program on Water
and Food and IUCN invite you to take part in the global art competition to
illustrate 18 key messages on water for food & for Life.
Who:
The competition is open to anyone - no age limit. Share this invitation
with people around you, schools, NGOs, local artists, etc.
What:
One piece of art will be selected to represent each of the key messages
of the CA (one piece per message). A
US$100 prize will be awarded to each winner and US$500 will be awarded to the
best art piece across all categories.
Where: Send a digital picture of your artwork
with an information
note on the work to comp.assessment@cgiar.org. The selection will be done on the basis of
these pictures and we will contact you after.
If you cannot take a picture, send your artwork to one of the submission
locations available in various countries thanks to the CA competition partners and inform us of this. http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/assessment/Newsroom/artcompetition-eng-locations.htm
More on the competition –
http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/Assessment/Newsroom/artcompetition-english_000.htm
Participez
a la compétition mondiale d'art pour illustrer des messages sur l'eau,
agriculture et la vie (CA). Avant le 15 Mai 2006.
Plus sur la
compétition (en Français) –
http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/assessment/Newsroom/artcompetition-french.htm
Participan a la competencia mundial de
arte: recurriendo al arte para representar CA mensajes sobre agua y agricultura
y la vida. Antes del 15 de Mayo 2006.
Mas sobre la competencia (en Español) - http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/assessment/Newsroom/artcompetition-spanish.htm
CA
new publications
CA Research
Report No.10, 2006.
Cities Versus Agriculture: Revisiting
Intersectoral Water Transfers, Potential Gains and Conflicts. Molle, F. and J.
Berkoff. [PDF
714 KB]
CA Research Report No. 9,
2005. Historical
Transformations of the Lower Jordan River Basin: Changes in Water Use and
Projections (1950 – 2025). Courcier, R., J.P. Venot and François Molle. [PDF
4.45 MB]
CA Research Report 8, 2005. Meta-Analysis to Assess
Impact of Watershed Program and People's Participation Joshi, P.K., A.K. Jha,
S.P. Wani, Laxmi Joshi and R.L. Shiyan [PDF1.430MB]
Beyond More Crop Per Drop, 2006. A
document and web site have been produced for the 4th World Water Forum to
provide ‘KEY MESSAGES’ which reflect valuable information, insight and
opportunity for action within the framework of the water-food-environment
nexus. (This is a joint report of
the Ca, IWMI, SIWI, SEI, Ramsar, PWEE, INWEPF, ICID, CPWF,
IUCN). Visit the site
& [PDF1.86MB]
Minimum Agenda on gender
mainstreaming in water management, Version presented at the WWF4, in March 2006 in
Mexico. (English,
French,
Spanish)
Other publications can be
downloaded from Publications,
including the CA
research reports 1 to 10, CA
publications in partners series, the Blue Paper:
Investing in Water for Food, Ecosystems and Livelihoods, Stockholm 2004 [PDF
634 KB] and the book, Water Productivity in Agriculture: Limits and
Opportunities for Improvement [Book
index HTML]
News from a CA
Partner
CA
at conferences
Interesting
opportunities for the CA in coming months are:
Ø
13-19
May: IFAP 37th World Farmers’
Congress and 60th Anniversary Celebrations, Seoul, South Korea. Theme:
60 years of empowering farmers – for diversity, for sustainability, for health,
for peace. For more: http://www.ifap.org
Ø 20-26 August: Stockholm Water Week (More information
about the sessions in which the CA will be participating will be available
soon).
Getting
feedback on CA findings
On 6-8 March: The CA Rice chapter is debated at IRRI in Los Banos,
Philippines
IRRI hosted the
WWF/PCARRD-organized (with FAO, PhilRice, ICRISAT) workshop “International Dialogue on Rice and Water: Exploring
Options for Food Security and Sustainable Environment”. It gathered 50 experts,
half of which are international experts and the other half of which are from
the Philippines. The workshop was an
ideal opportunity to critically review the findings of the CA chapter on Rice.
Contact: Bas Bouman, IRRI.
On 20 March: CA session at
the World Water Forum 4 in Mexico
The CA organized a session entitled “Assessing
livelihood and environmental synergies and trade-offs for water management in
agriculture” at the Fourth
World Water Forum (Session
FT4.37). The CA session challenged
current ways of thinking about management of water in agriculture. CA messages were also discussed in at least
10 other different sessions thanks to authors and partners. To read more about the CA at the WWF4 and the
session, see the summary
report. Contact: Domitille Vallee, CA secretariat.
On 19-21
March: draft “minimum agenda for effective
gender mainstreaming in water management” shared at the WWF4 for feedback
The CA joined with
Both ENDS and the Gender and Water Alliance to find out why engendered policies
and available guidelines still do not result in gender mainstreaming in
practice. This short-term project
supported by Novib enhances gender expert participation in the CA synthesis
process. A final report on gender in
water management in agriculture is in preparation. To comment on the minimum agenda presented at
the WWF4 , contact Joke Muylwijk, GWA.
On 20-31
March: Eighth Ordinary Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the
Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD),
CBD is one of the co-sponsors of the CA and refers
to it in document on Biological Diversity of Inland Water Ecosystems (document
No. UNEP/CBD/COP/8/INF/15).
For more: http://www.biodiv.org/doc/meetings/cop/cop-08/information/cop-08-inf-15-en.pdf