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Mekong.waterandfood.org: Water Wars over Mekong Dams an Unlikely Future
Basins At Risk was initiated in 2002 by researchers at Oregon State University. One of the main project outputs was the International Water Events...
Farmingfirst.org: We can grow enough food, but will it cost us...
Colin Chartres, Director General of the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) focused on three concrete examples of how agricultural water use could be sustainably...
Smallholder Farmers Need Improved Stake in Nile’s Development
There is enough water in the Nile basin to support development, but small farmers are at risk of being marginalised, says new book.
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A Familiar Fight Gets Tougher
(Punta del Este, 31 October 2012) A major overhaul of water management strategies in developing countries will be needed to enable the world's poorest...
‘Real farmers are not part of the Cauvery agitation’ – Rediff.com
In this interview, Professor S Janakrajan of the Madras Institute of development Studies, talks about how the Cauvery Family was born, and how the...
Allafrica.com: Nigeria: Bracing Up for Food Crisis After the Floods –...
Although Adesina disagrees with Mailafia, saying: "the team that came for a meeting with me today, I brought them from the International Water Management...
CCAFS.cgiar.org: Global flood hotspots being identified
A research project established jointly by the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) and International Water Management Institute (IWMI)...
Aditi Mukherji receives Norman Borlaug Award
Dr. Aditi Mukherji was formally presented with the Norman Borlaug Award for Field Research and Application on October 17, 2012, in Des Moines, Iowa.
Mukherji...
Gatescambridge.wordpress.com: The second Green Revolution
Just over a month ago, Ambassador Kenneth Quinn, the Chairman of the World Food Prize called me to say that I had won the...
Globalfoodforthought.typepad.com: Commentary – A five-pronged strategy to revitalizing Asia’s public irrigation...
This commentary is part of a series organized by The Chicago Council's Global Agricultural Development Initiative and the World Food Prize to examine the...