Comprehensive Assessment
of Water Management in Agriculture
CA
- 26 May 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
CA synthesis book has entered its final step.
A few remaining chapters are in last review by their respective review
editors. The rest are in the final stage
and edited by the science editor.
A draft outreach brochure
“Influencing What Happens Next” has been prepared to present the CA, its
process, results and suggest next steps.
This brochure will be finalized for the World Water Week in
A new Online Discussion
to be launched on the 2 June on
“bio-energy: future implications for water management in agriculture”.
Please register if you are interested and did not do it yet. casyn-scenarios@cgiar.org.
CA
art competition – Still opened for some messages - URGENT
The
Global Art competition to illustrate messages on water for food and Life of the
CA is still open for some messages.
Deadline for
some messages extended to
The
CA, SIWI, RAMSAR,
How: Send
a digital picture of your artwork with an information
note on the work to comp.assessment@cgiar.org,
or 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
Results of the CA to be
presented in August 2006 at the World Water Week in Stockholm
Participate in the next CA
event - a special session at the World Water Week- a full day on
The
Session is entitled “From Assessment to Research and Actions: The Comprehensive Assessment
of Water Management in Agriculture, and the CGIAR
Challenge Program on Water and Food”. It will be a full day session to present
CA findings and how they translate them into action [for more
on the session]. This seminar will
be enriched by other focused seminars & workshops on closed basins, diets,
IWRM, transboundary basins, and droughts [for more].
CA
publications
CA brochure, Influencing What Happens Next,
Draft version May 2005. [PDF
4.5 MB]
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]
This new CA research report revisits
commonly accepted wisdom on water allocation. It examines the nature
of urban water scarcity, the relative importance of both physical and economic
scarcity, and how cities secure funds for the development of their water infrastructure
(or fail to do so). It investigates whether recurrent water shortages in cities
have anything to do with agricultural water use (or overuse); and assesses
whether significant allocation stresses warrant the view that large economic
gains can be realized through reallocation. (Printed version are available with the CA
secretariat).
Beyond
More Crop Per Drop, 2006. A
document and web site have been produced for the 4th World Water Forum (WWF4)
in March 2006 in
Minimum Agenda on gender mainstreaming
in water management,
Version presented at the WWF4. (English,
French,
Spanish)
Other
publications can be downloaded from Publications,
including the CA
research reports 1 through 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]
Past
Events
IAASTD: The
second International Assessment of Agricultural Science and Technology for
Development (IAASTD) Global Authors meeting was held from 2-5 May 2006 in
News
from CA Partners
Events
4-7
September 2006, 9th International River symposium,
'Managing
rivers with climate change and expanding populations', next
year, the tenth symposium on the 3-6 September 2007will be on Environmental
Flows, For
further updates visit: www.riversymposium.com
26-28 September 2006, 3rd
International Symposium on Integrated Water Resources Management,
9-13 October 2006, 26 th IRRC at International Rice Congress (IRC
2006), New Delhi, India, More details on the Congress can be obtained from the
website at http://www.icar.org.in/irc2006
or http://irri.org/irc2006.
12 – 17 November,
2006, International Forum on Water and Food, organized by the Challenge Program on Water and Food (CPWF), Vientiane, Lao