Financing a farmer-led revolution in Africa
Farmer-led irrigation offers one of sub-Saharan Africa’s brightest prospects for defeating chronic hunger and making good on the promise of a more sustainable and resilient future.
IWMI at COP24
Researchers from IWMI played active roles at COP24, the 24th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, held at Katowice, Poland.
Ramsar Convention COP13
Sri Lanka wins international recognition for valuable but threatened urban wetlands.
Banking on nature
Projects that harness nature-based structures in places like Kenya and Sri Lanka are showing green infrastructure can be a valuable tool in helping vulnerable communities.
How to pay for watershed rehabilitation
New study addresses the question of how to finance future investment in watershed rehabilitation.
Committed to soil and water conservation
Understanding Ethiopia’s past experience to guide future investments
World Environment Day
Our rivers are barometers of environmental neglect – it’s time to clean them up
Rice and Reason: Planning for System Complexity in the Indus Basin
The summary of this scenario development workshop and a Vision for the Indus Basin will be shared as part of the IBKF3 at the end of the event.
The road to climate resilience
Enabling rural communities to draw up action plans aimed at enhancing resilience to climate-related hazards through sustainable management of natural resources.
How to keep Africa’s solar irrigation boom from going bust
IWMI researchers underline both the promise and perils of Africa's emerging boom in solar-powered irrigation in a Devex opinion article.
At the World Water Forum 2018
The vital importance of the concept for effective water governance is the key message of a side event being held at the 8th World Water Forum.
World Water Day and more: Giving nature its due
The theme for World Water Day 2018 is 'Nature for Water' – exploring nature-based solutions to the water challenges we face in the 21st century.
International Women’s Day
Florianne Clement, a social scientist at IWMI, explains how development projects can detect and influence the "critical consciousness" that compels and enables women to rise above the prejudice and discrimination around them.
Life with grandmother crocodile
The changing benefits of ecosystem services for rural communities in northern Ghana.
Anatomy of an irrigation scheme
The search for better ways to connect smallholder farmers, government and agribusiness.
Water for Food International Forum
Creating fertile ground for innovation in agricultural water management.
High time to fast-forward arsenic reduction in Bangladesh
IWMI researchers suggest how in a Devex opinion article.
Get on nature’s good side
A New Year's resolution to recognize the benefits of water-related ecosystem services
When the climate change news is good and bad
The authors of a new study about climate change impacts in Kenya have both good news and bad for the country’s vital Tana River Basin.
Game-changing water solutions
Realizing the huge potential to bolster water security in the Middle East and North Africa.
A bright future for solar-powered irrigation?
What’s not to like about the idea of using solar-powered pumps to irrigate crops in developing countries?
Water governance and collective action
A new book provides an overview of challenges in collective action via case studies from Africa, South and Southeast Asia and Latin America.