Water, Land and Ecosystems - Middle Africa

Community Movement for Rehabilitating Drying Springs of Yewol Mountain Watersheds at the heads of the Nile basin

Amanda — Sun, 29 Sep 2019 04:52:00 +0000

Yewol watershed in South Wollo Zone, Amhara Regional State, Ethiopia is a drought-prone sub-district with occasional storms and rapidly changing climate. Farmers have recently abandoned the short rains, which used to produce about 30% of the food, due to unreliable and unpredictable rains. This project is designed to capitalize on the ongoing watershed initiative, which established multiple watershed management interventions and has created an institutional alliance between Wollo University, Amhara Agricultural Research Institute and the local governments.

Contact Person

Amede, Tilahun <T.amede@cgiar.org>

Lead Center

International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)

Donors

CGIAR

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)

Partners

Government of Ethiopia, ICRISAT - International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics

Completed

Start/End dateJanuary 01, 2017 — December 31, 2019

Research ThemeLand and Water Solutions

Cluster

2.1 ALWM Solutions for Resilient Smallholder Livelihood and Landscape Systems

Regions

Eastern Africa, Middle Africa, Southern Africa, Western Africa

Countries

Ethiopia

Topics:

Land Water

Agricultural Land and Water Management (ALWM) investment models for livelihood benefits

Amanda — Tue, 30 Jan 2018 09:10:00 +0000

Consolidates research/engagement across several initiatives, on profitability, feasibility, sustainability of AWLM for smallholder farming. Informs investors on where/how/when AWM technologies can work. The ALWM project funding under WLE continues to support identified gaps in farmer led irrigation projects and strongly builds on the ongoing work under the extension phase of Innovation Laboratory for Small Scale Irrigation (ILSSI), the IWMI-TATA Partnership (ITP), the recently funded project by SDC and Technologies for African Agricultural Transformation (TAAT) and the recently acquired GIZ project in India. The work under WLE aims at providing guidelines and tools for the private and public sector to sustainably out/upscale water lifting technologies and water solution packages as a bundle.

In 2020 and 2021 IWMI will use the scaling pathway for FLI under ILSSI with private sector and adapt these to identify scaling opportunities for suitable AWM solutions (irrigation and SWC) through public-private partnerships in 2 other African countries. Special emphasis will be given to ensuring that the scaling pathways is inclusive of women and youth. IWMI under WLE will initiate a solar review in 2020 to be completed in 2021 drawing on a review in Africa and Asia. The information available to establish a geodatabase on FLI for Ethiopia and Ghana was insufficient in 2019. In 2020 the scope is adapted by identifying changes in FLI irrigation using RS. Ministries, donors, private sector entities have requested access to the spatial information to guide investments in farmer-led irrigation.

Contact Person

Schmitter, Petra <p.schmitter@cgiar.org>

Lead Center

International Water Management Institute (IWMI)

Donors

International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)

Texas A&M University

Sir Ratan Tata & Allied Trust (SRTT)

Sir Dorabji Tata & Allied Trust (SDTT)

Global Affairs Canada

International Fertilizer Development Center (IFDC)

Swiss Agency for Development Cooperation (SDC)

Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR)

Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU)

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Partners

AMU - Arba Minch University, BDU - Bahir Dar University, FAO - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, IFPRI - International Food Policy Research Institute, ILRI - International Livestock Research Institute, IWMI - International Water Management Institute, MoFA - Ministry of Food and Agriculture (Ghana), Texas A&M University

Completed

Start/End dateJanuary 01, 2017 — December 31, 2021

Cluster

2.1 ALWM Solutions for Resilient Smallholder Livelihood and Landscape Systems

Regions

Eastern Africa, Middle Africa, Southern Africa, Western Africa

Countries

Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, India, Mali, Niger, Rwanda, Tanzania

Alternative Pathways to improve electricity access and Energy Roadmaps Development and Energy access in the Eastern Nile - water and food implications

Amanda — Wed, 29 Nov 2017 06:34:00 +0000

Assess implications for food and water security from alternative energy development pathways. This project combines a project in Ethiopia and one in Pakistan to improve energy development.

The second part of this project involves developing a regional energy model for the Eastern Nile that incorporates energy export and import and assess related water and food implications to support the Nile Basin Initiative that is looking for alternatives to contentious water sharing challenges. The impact on greenhouse gas emissions will be assessed.