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The CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE) Led by IWM
The CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE) aims to address global food security challenges exacerbated by climate change, demographic shifts, and economic factors. It advocates for a paradigm shift in agriculture to enhance productivity sustainably while preserving ecosystems, promoting beneficial practices such as conservation agriculture and integrated water management. The program emphasizes restoring degraded lands, enhancing smallholder farming resilience, and fostering inclusive approaches that support gender equity and community involvement.
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- 1. The CGIAR ResearchProgram on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE) Led by IWMI
- 2. The challenges facingour global food production systems Food security . . . Exploitation of resources . . .
- 3. The challenges change .. . climatic, demographic, economic
- 4. We have exceededthree of the nine Planetary boundaries – danger of greater risks and uncertainty emerging Agriculture is the dominant contributing factor and the solution
- 5. How do wetransform agriculture to meet human prosperity and global sustainability? The Challenge: We need to increase productivity in a sustainable manner that ensures the provision of ecosystems services with limited if any further lateral expansion of lands under crops and pastures. This will ensure that we stay within the safe operating space.
- 6. How do wetransform agriculture to meet human prosperity and global sustainability? How will this be achieved? Through a ‘paradigm shift’ that recognises that agricultural production systems are “a wholly owned subsidiary of the ecosystems and natural capital” they are dependent upon
- 7. Benefit sharing mechanismsin the Andes Fuquene, Colombia S Annual net income: US$ 2,183/ha Annual net income: US$ 1,870/ha Conservation agriculture and paramo restoration supported by revolving fund Revolving fund credit: +180 farmers /year Potato cropping, grazing pressure, degradation of paramo
- 8. Another example here? • From rainfed SRP (termites, goats, or ?) • (See next slide the goats example that could refer back to our CPWF side event)
- 9. A virtuous circlethat triggers change to a more resilient state S SRecurrent droughts, increasing climate variability, poor connection to markets Local markets Producers self-esteem Improved rangeland production replacing US$15 / goat of stock feed value Improved livestock: US$ 50 per goat Goat mortality down to 10% Rainfed maize cropping: US$16/ha Livestock: US$10 per goat
- 10. Our vision: A worldin which agriculture thrives within vibrant ecosystems, where communities have higher incomes, improved food security and the ability to continuously improve their lives
- 11. The Game Changersfor Sub-Saharan Africa…….. • What if smallholder farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa were able to grow crops all year round? • What if we could prevent degradation and restore degraded lands? • What if wastes and used water could have a second life in agriculture? • What if excess water during floods could be stored in natural and man made systems and used during droughts?
- 12. 4. Variability management 3. Addressing degradation 1.Eastern Gangetic Plains 2. Business models
- 13. . . .with targeted interventions in 6 - 7 focal regions.
- 14. Integrated Examples ofWLE work in Africa
- 15. What if wecould prevent degradation and restore degraded lands?
- 16. Now is anexciting time for renewed coordinated efforts towards a ‘land degradation neutral (or better!) world’ More than 95 million has of arable land, or 75% of the total in SSA has degraded or highly degraded soil and farmers lose eight million tons of soil nutrients each year, estimated to be worth $4 billion... Land Degradation is a Classic ‘Wicked Problem”
- 17. 1. Advances inresearch Social Science CIRAD IWMI, CPWF, CIAT, WRI Inclusion of the people’s voice within the scientific research framework at many scales Wet season Dry season
- 18. 1. Advances inresearch Soil Science RS/GIS CIAT, ICRAF, CU, ISRIC, Purdue, FAO- GSP, countries in sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America Diagnosing, assessing and mapping Erosionprevalence Soil pH Volta Basin Soil Carbon Digital Soil Map
- 19. 1. Advances inresearch Ecosystem Services Trade-off Analysis Environmental Economics IFPRI, Bioversity, CIAT, IWMI, CPWF, ELD Costs of Action vs. Cost of Inaction InVEST Framework Supply Demand
- 20. 2. Alignment ofglobal initiatives • Rio+20 ‘The future we want’ Land Degradation Neutral’ • UN Sustainable Development Goals • FAO’s Global Soil Partnership 3. Drivers of change as opportunities • Public and Private Investment, CAADP and GrowAfrica • Urbanization, feminization of agriculture • Increased price of food • Investments in hydropower and mining
- 21. Study Landscapes inFocal Regions +/-10 Study Landscapes Tanzania, Malawi, Kenya, Ethiopia, Ghana, Burkina Faso, Niger, Lao PDR, Cambodia, Myanmar, Nicaragua, El Salvador Building on CPWF and other Programs Working with FTA CCAFS Humidtropics Dryland Systems
- 22. Partnership for Outcomes LANDSCAPE NATIONAL REGIONAL GLOBAL DELIVERRESEARCH OUTCOMES – impact multiplies through partners Potential beneficiaries 10’s of thousands 0–6years3–6years6–9years • Global initiatives informed and inspired by research, support national and landscape investments • New investments made by IFAD, GIZ, GEF • Public and private • Policy, Regulation, Incentives support adoption Strategies adopted that are site specific, gender & equity sensitive FAO, GSP, UNCCD, ELD, GEF, UNEP, UNDP National Agriculture and NRM policy CAADP, IFAD, GIZ, SDC Communities, civil society, NGO’s, national extension, ARI’s, IFAD, SDC 100’s of thousands Millions
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- 24. How? Content and structure •Equity triangle • Gender integration in SRPs and gender specific Architecture: – Embedded: not just one approach – Budget - working towards full accounting – Voting member of the management committee – Growing with partners Poverty InstitutionsGender
- 25. What? Towards: • More equitableaccess to water, land and ecosystems services. • Improved decision making - inclusion in resource management Research questions: • The African farmer and her husband: Feminization of agriculture • Mother and earth: Replenishing and fostering agriculture Develop: Investable options for women
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- 27. Ecosystem Conservation as aresult of poverty alleviation
- 28. Ecosystem Conservation as meansto poverty alleviation
- 29. Principles • People arefundamental • Human and Natural systems are tightly coupled. • Ecological processes in the portfolio of options. • Multifunctionality: Complex Adaptive Systems • Resilience: shocks will occur. • Recognize we might have to modify ecosystems • Large scale: basin as maximum extent (CPR)
- 30. 0 20 40 60 80 100 1-Oct-80 1-Nov-80 1-Dec-80 1-Jan-81 1-Feb-81 1-Mar-81 1-Apr-81 1-May-81 1-Jun-81 1-Jul-81 1-Aug-81 1-Sep-81 Flow(m3s-1) Daily flow withand without floodplain Without floodplain (simulated) With floodplain (observed) Flow Regulation in the Luswishi Floodplain Understanding how ecosystems affect livelihoods M. McCartney (IMWI)
- 31. Ecosystem Services by whomand for whom? Rainfall less than 900 mmyr-1 Greater than 900 mmyr-1 F. Kizito (CIAT)
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Editor's Notes
- #5 It is clear from a global perspective that growth along current trajectories using today’s technologies is bound to fail. It would exceed planetary boundaries that ensure stability in our food production systems and lead to environmental degradation that will stop growth and even threaten major reversals of living standards through pollution, deforestation, water scarcity, famines, floods, displacement, and collapsing agricultural productivity.
- #14 Ten WLE target basins and regions are: the Andes, Limpopo, Zambezi, Volta, Niger, Nile, Indus and Ganges, Mekong, Amu Darya and Syr Darya, and Tigris and Euphrates.As the map above shows, current WLE investments are in some of the poorest regions of the world where there are pressing water-related problems. For instance, it works in sub-Saharan Africa where there are high levels of food insecurity and rainfall variability. Many of its activities in Southeast Asia focus on addressing water, food and energy-related issues, where hydropower needs to be balanced with other development needs such as agriculture and fisheries.
- #15 Business opportunities for resource recovery and reuseSafe wastewater and excreta reuse
- #17 Complex problems that shift and change over scale and time, solutions requires people to changetheir mind-sets and behavior , and as such are social and political, many create problems elsewhere require collective action
- #21 CGIAR projects and programs are a major vehicle through which these initiatives can land on the ground….
- #22 Entry points, issues and size of landscape can differSoil health, nutrient mismanagementEco-efficient intensificationEnvironment/ productivity tradeoffsSiltation and water qualityManaging biodiversityCo-managing landscapesUpstream/downstream tradeoffs
- #31 Ecosystems modify river flows: affecting the rates of transpiration and evaporation influencing how water is routed and stored in a basinSome ecosystems act like natural reservoirs and regulate flows: decrease wet season flows increase dry season flows This work is now being further developed through WLE and another UNEP project in the Volta and the Mekong. For many ecosystems there is little quantitative information on the extent to which they modify flows.This makes it difficult to incorporate natural flow regulation in planning and management of water resources. This Project: Evaluated how different ecosystems (wetlands, floodplains and forests) affect flow in the Zambezi Basin Developed a method whereby natural flow regulating impacts can be quantified and incorporated in decision-making This Project: Evaluated how different ecosystems (wetlands, floodplains and forests) affect flow in the Zambezi Basin Developed a method whereby natural flow regulating impacts can be quantified and incorporated in decision-making