Comprehensive Assessment of Water Management in Agriculture
CA Info Bulletin No. 6 - 18 October 2005 -
The CA assesses current knowledge and experience
to identify the most effective investment and management decisions in water
management for agriculture for reducing poverty and enhancing food and
environmental security.
Apologies for Cross-Postings
The Assessment
The Assessment is coming into shape.
First drafts of
thirteen of the eighteen chapters of the assessment were produced through a consultative
process, critiqued by 8 to 10 reviewers, and debated with all the chapter teams
at a recent workshop. Messages are taking shape for the summary for decision
makers. Writing teams have ample material to prepare an improved second draft,
due on the 15th of December for wide review.
The draft
chapters are on key questions of water management in agriculture: rainfed
agriculture, irrigation, groundwater, marginal quality water, fisheries,
livestock, rice, land degradation, river basins, water productivity,
poverty, policies & institutions and ecosystems.
Looking at water management in
agriculture with different lenses.
To
cross-fertilize ideas and to broaden the specialist perspective, all the
chapters were scrutinized through other lenses by expert working groups
specializing in gender, health, climate change, civil society’s role and
outreach. Representative of these working group were at the recent synthesis
workshop in Habarana to work with specialist chapter teams.
An updated timeline for the
preparation of the Assessment Book.
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Nov 2005 to April 2006: chapter finalization with internal
reviews across chapters, scientific review and wide consultations and reviews
with chapter networks
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April 2006 – editing
and publishing
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Through July
2006 – editing, layout,
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August 2006– delivery of the Summary for Decision
Makers (SDM) in
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Aug – Sep 2006 – publishing
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Sept/Oct 2006 – delivery of assessment at a launch
(to be organized)
You can participate in developing
chapters through online discussions or by reviewing the chapters. Please visit the CA website to find out more.
If you want to participate in the next review process, please email: comp.assessment@cgiar.org.
See the Book
outline with its chapters.
Workshops
Putting the pieces of the puzzle
together: the Habarana Workshop, Sri Lanka
The Assessment
is prepared through a participatory and consultative process with the teams and
with a large network of experts. In order to reach good integration across
chapters, the coordinating lead author of each chapter met for the second time from
26 to
The workshop’s main
objectives were to: harmonize
content across chapters; integrate cross-cutting issues including gender,
health, etc. into various chapters; respond to and incorporate reviewers’
comments in the assessment; develop scenarios and the scenario chapter further;
and develop the summary for decision makers (SDM).
The workshop, held over five days,
consisted of 50 experts involved in the CA. Forty chapter authors, representing
each chapter writing team, participated in the workshop. The workshop allowed
maximum interaction across chapters, between authors and reviewers (a team of five);
between authors and the writing editor (Bruce Ross-Larson); as well as between
authors and the experts on cross-cutting issues and chapters for the CA as a
whole (poverty, policy/institutions, ecosystems, gender, health, climate change,
future scenarios).
For more on the workshop and the report;
or contact the CA Secretariat (comp.assessment@cgiar.org)to receive the
report.
CA
at Conferences
CA will organize sessions or be represented at the following events:
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8
to
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5
to
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January
2006, International symposium on the sustainable use of groundwater (USGWAS) of the Interacademy Panel on International
Issues (some key messages of the groundwater chapter)
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16-22 March 2006- World Water Forum – CA session in
the water/food/environment beacon (Session to be confirmed).
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20 to
CA chapters, ideas and messages
were presented at various events to obtain feedback.
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On
the rice chapter at the PAWEES 2005 International Conference on Management of
Paddy and Water Environment for Sustainable Rice Production, 7–8 September
2005, Kyoto, Japan.
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On
irrigation, water productivity and future options at a special CA session
during the 19th
CA
Publications
IWMI
Research Report 93, 2005 : Adoption and Impacts of
Microirrigation Technologies Empirical Results from Selected Localities of
CA
Research Report 8, 2005: Meta-Analysis to Assess Impact of Watershed Program
and People's Participation Joshi, P.K., A.K. Jha, S.P. Wani, Laxmi Joshi and
R.L. Shiyan Download
CA Discussion Paper 1, 2005: The
Effects of Agricultural Irrigation on Wetland Ecosystems in Developing
Countries: A Literature Review, Hector Galbraith, Priyanie Amerasinghe
and Annette Huber-Lee
CA
publications can be downloaded from Publications,
including the Blue Paper, Investing
in Water for Food, Ecosystems and Livelihoods, Stockholm 2004 and the Book,
Water
Productivity in Agriculture: Limits and Opportunities for Improvement
About
the Comprehensive Assessment
The
Comprehensive Assessment of Water Management in Agriculture critically
evaluates the benefits, costs, and impacts of the past 50 years of water
development, the water management challenges communities are facing today, and
solutions people have developed. The results will enable better
investment and management decisions in water and agriculture in the near future
and over the next 50 years. The assessment comprises of a broad
partnership of practitioners.
To know more about the
Comprehensive Assessment ;
To
know more about the Synthesis phase of the CA
To share
your news - Contact: comp.assessment@cgiar.org
(subject-news)