The main challenge for WLE is develop a body of evidence that ecosystem based approaches are economically viable and sustainable on wide scale. In 2013, I believe we took major steps in the right direction.
The CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food (CPWF) formally concluded in December 2013. Over the course of 12 years, CPWF conducted more than 120 research projects across 10 river basins in partnership with more than 400 organizations.
The county capital of Wajir in northeast Kenya lacks clean drinking water and has no suitable source of water nearby. That's why the Kenyan government plans to tap into an important groundwater body, the Merti aquifer.
In the development of hydropower schemes, local populations are sometimes displaced or relocated in order to make room for dam infrastructure and reservoirs.
Sophisticated mapping tools and land restoration cost analyses in efforts to improve ecosystem health in Kenya, which faces complex problems such as uncontrolled open-pit mining.
Land degradation is a widespread issue in Ethiopia. The Meja watershed in the Jeldu region is one such example, having experienced the confluence of extreme environmental degradation and marked changes in cultural and religious practices over the past decades.
