Transcript Challenge Program on Water and Food

Challenge Program on Water
and Food
Indo-Gangetic Basin Coordinating Unit
ICAR Research Complex for Eastern Region
WALMI Complex, Phulwari Sharif P.O.
Patna 801 505, Bihar
Challenge Programs Origin
2000 CGIAR restructuring
• Improved impact
• Improved integration
• Emergence of CP idea
2002 Start of Inception Phase
CPs Water and Food
Biofortification
CP on Water and Food
Research Themes
Global and national policies and institutions
Integrated river basin management
Agro-ecosystems
Upper catchments
Aquatic ecosystems
CP on Water and Food
OBJECTIVES
Increase productivity of water for food and livelihoods environmentally sustainable and socially acceptable
– Global diversion of water for agriculture kept at 2000 levels
– Increase food production
– Meet UN 2015 targets for reducing malnutrition and poverty
CP on Water and Food
RIVER BASINS
Asia
Africa
Yellow
River
Limpopo
Mekong
Volta
IndoGangetic
Nile
CWANA
LAC
Sao
Francisco
Karkheh
(Iran)
Andean
basin(s)
CP on Water and Food
STRUCTURE AND FUNDING
– Consortium: CGIAR (5); NARES (7);
ARIs (4); NGOs (3)
Initial 5 years US$ 50 - 125m
 Potential 15 years ca US$ 200m +
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Indo-Gangetic Basin – An Overview
225.2 mha basin area
747 million population
114 Mha cropped area
91.4% water use in
agriculture
Percent population
below poverty line30.5
High Potential – Low Productivity
Progress of CPWF
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Approved in Nov 2002 and entered in inception
phase
Fully functional from Jan 2004
First call – 50 projects approved
At present 30 projects already started in different
basins
Out of this 9 projects for IGB
More news available in www.waterforfood.org
Next call expected in the middle of 2006
New research strategy – start Basin focal projects
in 4 small basins immediately – spread across
continents and ecological conditions
Objectives of Basin Focal projects
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Improve understanding of the nature and extent of water
poverty and vulnerability and the underlying causes of
poverty and opportunities for poverty reduction
 Improve understanding of issues, processes, opportunities
and challenges associated with sustainable increase in
agricultural water productivity for poverty reduction and
enhanced food, health and environmental securities
 Develop an integrated framework for assessing constraints
and opportunities and identifying appropriate interventions
for –
- the poor to enhance agricultural water productivity
- The poor to benefit from improvements in water access,
employment and lower food cost
- Enhancing health and environmental securities through
increases in agricultural water productivity
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Focal projects – a key means of comparing and contrasting
the situation in different basins – maximum of USD 800 K
– 18-24 months duration
The data produced in each basin and the methodologies
agreed to produce them will be intellectual capital (global
public goods) offered by the CPWF
Help to prioritize researchable issues in each basin for the
second call
Initially BFPs will function for Mekong, Karkheh, Volta
and S. Francisco basins from August 2005
Lead Institutions CSIRO, IWMI, IRD, UC Davis
Other partners for this BFPs will decided by lead institution
and the coordination project
Other basins – IGB – next year – mid 2006
The methodological framework developed under GECAFS
may provide a good support for IGB basin focal project
Small grants (max of USD 75 K) –
innovative methods and demonstrations of
end user impact – call is in the initial stage
 IFS-CPWF call already available in the
website – USD 12 K – for young scientists
of different basins for innovative new ideas
– period 12-18 months duration
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