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Simon Cook, former Director of the CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems, talks about water for wealth and food security.

An interview with WLE program manager, Emma Greatrix.

The only woman to have received the Nobel Prize in Economics- Elinor Ostrom, passed away on June 12. She is popularly known for her work in natural resource management and common pool resources.

Andrew Noble explains the fundamental elements that make up the WLE program and what an ecosystem based approach really means.

ICRAF, in partnership with MTT and the University of Nairobi have started a new project. This collaboration will establish a soil micronutrient surveillance system for sub-Saharan Africa and develop new diagnostic analytical methods. 

The first meeting of the Water Land and Ecosystems Resource Recovery & Reuse (RRR) research theme took place on 25-26 April, 2012, in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

The Ethiopian government’s Agricultural Transformation Agency has just launched the Soil Health and Fertility Ethiopian Soil Information System based on the soil health surveillance methods developed by the Africa Soil Information Service, which is hosted by the CGIAR. 

An IWMI short film, Underground Taming of Floods for Irrigation (UTFI), is a backlisted video winner in a film competition about how to prevent flooding.

IFPRI held a workshop in Washington, DC for their project "Agricultural development, ecosystems and their services: Insights from Agent-Based Modelling in the Indus, Mekong and Niger Basins."

WLE and GRiSP held a two day workshop in Dhaka, Bangladesh to kick start the Polder Community Water Management project, to much fanfare.

The CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems celebrates International Women's Day 2015 and highlights some gender responsive research.

Identifying and removing barriers for women and youth to access irrigated land in the White Volta basin has the potential to give them a "head start."