Water, Land and Ecosystems - A Natural Resources Management CGIAR Research Program

A Natural Resources Management CGIAR Research Program (CRP5)

Water, Land and Ecosystems

A CGIAR Partnership CGIAR Centers, FAO Research, development, knowledge partners

CRP5 Addresses Interrelated Global Challenges

• Water Scarcity • Land Degradation • Loss of Ecosystem

Services GOAL:

sustainably improve livelihoods, reduce poverty, and ensure food security using research-based solutions to water scarcity, land degradation, and loss of ecosystem services.

Natural Resources Management – why is it different/difficult?

• Responds to a changing set of drivers outside of water or land sector

• Ecosystem services difficult to value

• Non-market economy

• Cross scale interactions

• Issues of ownership of land & water are complex

• Intuitional arrangements not always conducive to NRM

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Information

Focus on 8 problem sets

X cutting: Governance Gender Poverty New Generation

Drivers: Energy Subsidies Diets …

COMPLEXITY OF

SOLUTIONS

CRP 5 SPACE

LARGE BASIN

SMALL BASIN/ LANDSCAPE

SCALE WATERSHED

FARM

FIELD

TRANSBOUNDARY TO GLOBAL AGREEMENT LEVEL

NATIONAL POLICY ISSUES

WATER ALLOCATION SOIL CONSORVATION

LOCAL MGMT PRACTICESE

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

CRP5 Works Across Scales

Where CGIAR presently works on NRM

Each location has a different problem set and impact pathway

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Information, analysis, research based solutions

Engage in impact pathway

Policy , practices, institutions, processes, capacity

X cutting: Governance Gender Poverty New Generation

GWP Role

Multiple Paths to Impact • Focus on clients - farmer and community

perspectives; different needs of women, men, youth

• Regional integration – to solve local problems

• Focal countries – for policy and investment support

• Partnership networks

• Global and regional engagement

• Facilitating capacity building

CRP5 Partnership for Research and Impact

Universities Research Institute

CGIAR Centers

Implementers Investors Farmers

Fundamental Research Research for Development Impact

National Research systems

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+ FAO

GWP

What’s new • Alignment of CG Centers work

• Better engagement with partners for impact

• Integration – science, scale, partners

• fosters innovation – bringing something new to market

Developing the Proposal

On line consultations, plus design and writer’s workshop in Colombo involving CGIAR and partners – about 500 people involved

Date Location Host

28-30 June Colombo, Sri Lanka IWMI

8 July Tashkent, Uzbekistan IWMI

28 July Nairobi, Kenya ILRI and CIAT

2 August Lima, Peru CONDESAN and CIP

2 August Delhi, India ICRISAT

3 August Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso AGRA and IWMI

6 August Bangkok, Thailand FAO

8 August Aleppo, Syria ICARDA

9 August Cali, Columbia CIAT and CONDESAN

10 August Lusaka, Zambia NEPAD and IWMI

IMPACT PARTNERS

CRP 5 SPACE

LARGE BASIN

SMALL BASIN/ LANDSCAPE

SCALE WATERSHED

FARM

FIELD

TRANSBOUNDARY TO GLOBAL AGREEMENT LEVEL

NATIONAL POLICY ISSUES

CRP 6 SPACE

CRP 2 SPACE

CRP 7 SPACE

CRP 1, 3, 4 SPACE

FARMER COMMUNITY

NGO

STATE DEVPM’T PLANNERS

IMPLEMENTORS

NATIONAL POLICY

INVESTORS

REGIONAL BODIES GLOBAL CONVENTIONS

Impact -200 million livelihoods improved in 20 years

Potential Beneficiaries

Irrigation – 200M, lower food prices, landless labor, more income, better environment

Rainfed- 500M smallholders in Asia & Africa, more income, better food security

Pastoral – 180M pastoralists – less vulnerability from secure land and water access

Groundwater – 250M, reduced vulnerability to overdraft, better use in high potential areas

Resource Recovery– 20 to 50M peri urban farmers, better health, productivity income gains; 1 B consumers

Budget

• Combined work of CGIAR Centers totals about $78 million in this area

• FAO - $10M per year

• Startup – need funding for information systems, M&E, gender & poverty, regional integration, administration

• Over time – coherent project portfolio

• Strategy – an increasing proportion of additional funding is for supporting partnerships