A synthesis of a survey of CGIAR’s projects on restoration is being published to aide urgently needed research to design, develop and upscale successful restoration approaches.
Small reservoirs are a lifeline to smallholders and livestock herders and facing multiple threats. Research suggests that the answers may lie in a smarter and more holistic approach.
The WLE FG5 team aims to use text mining as an effective means of drawing attention to progress as well as identifying critical gaps, as in the case of gender based issues.
New electronic tool that accurately and transparently measures water discharge into farmers plots facilitate judicious use of water in water stressed Uzbekistan.
Using smart business models, restoring degraded ecosystems through exclosures -- areas that are excluded from woodcutting, grazing and agricultural activities -- can be turned into a win-win.
We are in desperate need of more integrated approaches that recognize our interdependent place in the natural world. Strengthening interdisciplinary and intercultural collaboration will encourage a paradigm-shift towards integration, as will the sharing of knowledge between people with different worldviews.
A radical and more equitable approach is necessary to keep up with the changing agricultural needs while tackling full blown climate, coronavirus and other crises.
In the "land of five rivers", groundwater depletion has been catching up fast - as it has been doing over all states of India, and it urgently calls for a broader and more viable approach driven by the food-energy-water nexus.
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