The Upper East Regional Women in Agriculture Development Officer, Mary Kogana Paula has called on traditional rulers, family heads and society to give women the opportunity to have access to land for agricultural purposes in Ghana.
Hydropower has enormous importance in the world of clean energy, accounting for more than 85% of global renewable electricity generation in 2015. However, this sector often competes with irrigation, which has similar global importance; irrigated agriculture produces 40% of our food. A new paper, based on a WLE project with IFPRI and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), looks at this competition.
Agricultural landscapes are the most important solution space for addressing Sustainable Development Goals on environment and food security. The ESR framework can help tackle the complexity of these landscapes so that the right research and interventions can be designed and carried out.
In the Mekong Delta, intensive farming practices have taken their toll on fish and aquatic populations. Farmers are working with researchers to try and reverse this worrying trend.
A a new tool, still under development, will 'triangulate' available plant traits linked to ecosystem processes to guide restoration efforts while facilitating to practitioners’ and other relevant stakeholders' selection of locally adapted species for restoring ecosystem services.
Water wars have been announced by media and policy analysts over the last twenty years and the Nile has always been one of the rivers spotted as “up for grab”. However, in spite of these prophecies what we have been mostly witnessing is a process of difficult, uneven, slow, sometimes contradictory but still peaceful negotiation among the riparian countries.
Water has been in the news in Tamil Nadu, from devastating floods in 2015 to a severe drought because of weak northeast monsoons in 2016. In view of the severity of the event, the Tamil Nadu government has declared all of its 32 districts as drought-affected and reported increasing agrarian stress.
Responding to a demand from local decision makers, researchers have developed a water allocation model that can shed light on current and future water availability in the Ruaha watershed in Tanzania.
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