8th AfriGEO Symposium 2024
The AfriGEO symposium 2024 "Earth Intelligence for Africa" will provide a platform for experts to discuss the aspects of integration, co-design, user engagement, partnership and capacity development in Africa.
Digital Innovations for Water Secure Africa (DIWASA)
Digital Innovations for Water Secure Africa (DIWASA) - Phase 2
Tackling the risks of extreme events (PALM-TREES)
Pan-African and Transdisciplinary Lens on the Margins: Tackling the Risks of Extreme Events (PALM-TREES)
CGIAR Initiative: Ukama Ustawi
Ukama Ustawi: Diversification for Resilient Agribusiness Ecosystems in East and Southern Africa
CGIAR Initiative: Resilient cities
Resilient Cities Through Sustainable Urban and Peri-urban Agrifood Systems
Inclusive and sustainable agri-food system transformation
Foresight & Metrics to Accelerate Inclusive and Sustainable Agrifood System Transformation
CGIAR Initiative: Digital innovation
Harnessing Digital Technologies for Timely Decision-Making Across Food, Water and Land Systems
Quality management toolkit for irrigation
Development of a toolkit to support and guide processing QM to implement irrigation projects and its users manual and train professionals
Gender-responsive innovations for resilient refugee and host community settlements
Gender-responsive innovations for soil rehabilitation, alternative fuel and agriculture for resilient refugee and host community settlements in East Africa
CGIAR Initiative: Nature-Positive Solutions
Nature-positive Solutions for Shifting Agrifood Systems to More Resilient and Sustainable Pathways
IWMI at CGIAR Science Week
We are happy to share that the new dates for the inaugural CGIAR Science Week have been announced for April 7-12, 2025, at the UN Campus in Nairobi, Kenya.
News
Floods in Kenya underscore urgent need for anticipatory action in disaster situations
Holistic, integrated planning across sectors is vital to ensure disaster response is timely and effective.
Africa Fertilizer and Soil Health Summit 2024
The Summit will bring together all relevant stakeholders to highlight the crucial role of fertilizer and soil health in stimulating sustainable pro-poor productivity growth in African agriculture.
Features
Greening gray infrastructure: uncovering the complexity of Nature-based Solutions
Nature-based Solutions (NbS) are a hot topic in environment and landscape planning networks. But are they a silver bullet for solving the climate crisis?
Blogs
Waste or resource?
How a circular water and food economy is affecting the nutrition, health and livelihoods of refugee and host communities in East Africa.
Podcasts
Episode 3: Kenya’s Policy Pathways
This week on Policy Pathways we are exploring how policy coherence can help Kenya to advance its sustainable development plans!
Podcasts
Episode 1: Introducing… Policy Pathways
Researchers introduce the series and explain what a 'policy pathway' is.
News
New podcast explores policy coherence and system transformation in food, land and water
Policy Pathways, produced by IWMI, examines policies for sustainable development and climate resilience in six countries.
Convention on Biological Diversity: SBSTTA-26
The 26th meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice (SBSTTA-26) takes place in Nairobi, Kenya.
Convention on Biological Diversity: Subsidiary Body on Implementation
The fourth meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Implementation will take place in Nairobi, Kenya.
In the media
How to harvest water from clouds of fog
IWMI's Deputy Director General, Rachael McDonnell, spoke to NPR's Goats and Soda about fog harvesting, a traditional technique that is now being expanded.
Blogs
Building refugee resilience in East Africa through reusing resources
This World Population Day, we explore how refugees can develop resilience with water.
In the media
The impact of large and small dams on malaria transmission in four basins in Africa
On VOA, Jonathan Lautze discusses the impact of small and large dams on malaria transmission in four river basins in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Blogs
Challenge winner moves forward with IoT to develop world first database
A network of solar irrigation pumps equipped with sensors that connect to the Internet will potentially provide a world first database of groundwater usage in sub-Saharan Africa.
Blogs
Assigning value to nature’s bounty
Toward more inclusive water management in Kenya’s Tana River Basin
In the media
TheConversation: Food security in Africa depends on rethinking outdated water law
A new study has found that outdated, colonial-era water permit systems across Africa are unintentionally criminalising millions of small farmers who can’t obtain permits. This undermines efforts to boost farming production and meet economic growth goals.
In the media
SciDevNet: Key river basin could benefit from climate change
Increased rainfall and river flows in the next decades could make the Tana river basin in Kenya provide more opportunities for irrigation and hydropower generation, according to a report.
Blogs
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.
News
The power of rubbish
New Thrive blog post on turning the burden of sanitation services into a profit using business thinking.
In the media
Bloomberg: U.S. Startup Plans Africa Expansion With Solar Watering Kits
Only about 5 percent of African agriculture is irrigated, according to the International Water Management Institute. In Tanzania, for example, the government says it has a 6.8 trillion-shilling ($3.1 billion) irrigation funding gap.
News
Future proofing the Tana Basin
Smart planning can ensure a sustainable future for Kenya’s longest river.