Finding the economic value of irrigation water in the Nile Basin to enhance water saving
A recent study conducted by the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) estimated the economic value of irrigation water for major crops in various agricultural systems of the Nile Basin.
What is a food system without water and energy?
Explore this graphic to learn more about why the water, food, energy nexus must play a central role at the UN Food Systems Summit.
Three months of floods, or nine months of drought
An intense monsoon season in Pakistan means the country’s food system faces the challenge of both extreme floods and extended droughts.
Thinking Hydrologically
Water is running out in Central Asia. New approaches to water regulation, energy production, and agricultural education are necessary to be able to feed the region.
Can solar pumps unlock Ghana’s irrigation potential?
New IWMI research indicates over 2 million hectares potentially suitable for solar photovoltaic (PV) pumping – and proposes sustainable business models for capturing the solar market opportunity.
How market knowledge is powering Africa’s solar irrigation sector
Data-driven tools are helping solar irrigation companies target their products and services to the right people, in the right way.
Water’s role in boosting nutrition, health and food security
Developing business models that governments and the private sector take seriously, so that better use of water can lead to better nutrition, health and food security.
Learning from our mistakes: transforming water management to boost biodiversity
When designing water solutions for communities, IWMI researchers always consider the impact on biodiverse ecosystems.
Water’s Fundamental Truths: Part 2 – Why do we have to manage water as a system?
Water has to be managed as a system, and cannot be effectively managed separately from land, or from its major uses or users, of which agriculture is by far the biggest.
Water’s Fundamental Truths – for One CGIAR and Beyond
Water scarcity is growing. While water is finite, demand for it grows along with population, the water intensity of diets, and the broader water demands of the economy.
Euro News: The planet will ‘dehydrate before it starves’: Why universal access to water is crucial
Having put millions more people at risk of acute hunger, the COVID-19 pandemic has set the stage for a now-or-never year of rethinking the entire system behind food and nutrition.
How to grow nutritious food without over-extracting groundwater
It is important that our agriculture and electricity policies are geared towards the condition of groundwater resources.
Sustainability Community: Is it crunch time for the Water-Energy-Food (WEF) Nexus? 3 recommendations to move the needle
To be clear, nexus projects do exist that have put principle to practice with impressive results. In Central Asia, for example, research by the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) demonstrates that substantial savings can be achieved in water and energy if more efficient irrigation technologies are adopted.
Success despite Covid: Hope from a Water Users Association in Central Myanmar
The Covid-19 health and economic crisis, as well as recent drought, could have caused optimism to fall. But not for the members of the “Five Village Bless” Water User Association.
After the flush: How a project in Ghana is turning human waste into an economic resource
An IWMI-led project in Ghana aims to address issues with insufficient financing and lack of capacity by capturing value (‘CapVal’) from human waste in ways that support a circular economy.
Modernizing wastewater treatment in Sri Lanka
Working across South Asia to identify applied technologies and business models to sustain water and sanitation systems.
Experts: new thinking and approaches needed to scale up farmer-led irrigation
Scaling up farmer-led irrigation will require not only holistic approaches but also strong partnerships between implementing partners.
Simulating trade-offs in the water-energy-food nexus
In the Omo-Turkana and Zambezi basins in Africa, complex relationships emerge from the balances struck among hydropower generation, irrigated agriculture, water quality and environmental flows.
Unpacking the water-energy-environment-food nexus: working across systems.
The increasing demand for water, energy and food, and the interdependence of these systems could lead to potential human conflict in the future.
Water-energy-food nexus solutions for southern Africa
The project builds on important progress achieved earlier this year. In February, DAFNE held its first stakeholder workshop in Lusaka, Zambia.
ICID.org: Five years after the Bonn Nexus Conference – Implications for Irrigation and drainage
The water–food–energy nexus offers an unprecedented opportunity for change in agricultural water management.
Indian water policy initiative receives World Water Day global award
Key insights into groundwater 'directly tackle the challenges' facing India’s water future
Message from Jeremy Bird on World Food Day 2013
Water plays a vital role in sustainable food systems, IWMI's Director General reminds.
Feeding everyone: A case for water governance reform
Water scarcity can be combated, but it needs politicians and policy makers to develop some enthusiasm for reforming the water sector.
Cisionwire.com: New version of SEI’s water planning software links easily to energy tool for nexus analyses, adds IWMI environmental flow assessment module
The latest enhancements to the Water Evaluation and Planning (WEAP) system, used by thousands of governments, researchers and nonprofits in 170 countries, were showcased...
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