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Large-scale land acquisitions in West Africa: the ignored water dimensions

Land grabbing is a topic of hot debate among scientists and development professionals.  We received a comment on Fred Pearce’s land grabbing post that rightly points to what might be an even greater...

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Making our research relevant to the people that matter in the Volta and Niger...

By Alain Vidal and Amanda Harding This post was originally published on the Challenge Program on Water and Food Director’s Blog. After months of planning, the CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and...

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Climate change is no joke for Ghana

This post is one of a series on presentations by CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystem‘s researchers at the recent Water in the Anthropocene conference in Bonn, looking at aspects of the...

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How can WLE add value to what is happening in the real world?

Expectations were high for the WLE Design Workshop held in Accra between 28th and 30th May. Perhaps too high. Was it realistic to map out the priority water, land and ecosystems issues for both the...

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Maximizing Africa’s potential to feed Africa

“Will 2013 be pinpointed as the year in which Africa’s ‘Green Revolution’ finally took root?” asks Carolyn Fry in her blog post earlier this year.  Let’s hope so.  In the wake of the 10-year...

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Youth engaging youth in agriculture

Africa has the youngest population in the world; over 200 million people are between ages 15 and 24 and the African Economic Outlooks expects this number to double by 2045. It is easy to see why youth...

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A changing climate: Are the Volta River countries ready?

Threading its way from the semi-arid scrub of the Sahel, through the lush tropical farmlands of Southern Ghana, the Volta River supports the livelihoods of millions of West Africans. It underpins much...

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Water, conflicts and power

Taming conflict through research and engagement By Sara Drexler Throughout the river basins of the world, water management issues have been caused or exacerbated by instances of destructive conflict....

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Sustainable aid: local interventions target landscapes to improve livelihoods

This blog is part of the Agriculture and Ecosystems Blog’s month-long series on Ecosystem Services. It is common practice for developing countries to receive donor aid in order to meet existent...

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Not all dams are equal (but some are more equal than others)

This blog is part of the Agriculture and Ecosystems Blog’s month-long series on Ecosystem Services. Dams are points in the landscape at which hydrological ecosystem services are realized or ‘harvested’...

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Wrestling with small pumps

This post reviews Agricultural Water Management Journal Special Section: Investing in small, private irrigation to increase production and enhance livelihoods.  Articles are OPEN ACCESS until January...

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Classic case of research-to-policy disconnect?  

By Tariro Saruchera and Jonathan Lautze This blog post was originally published as part of the ‘Talking Science’ Blog Competition. Cast your vote here. Is water cooperation included in the Sustainable...

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Business NOT as usual

This is the first of a series of articles related to the establishment of the WLE Focal Regions. The WLE Focal Region experiment begins “Bureaucracy destroys initiative. There is little that...

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Working backwards to move forward

This is the second blog post in our Focal Region Roll-out Series. Read the first here. From outcomes to outputs at the WLE Writeshops “Unity is strength… when there is teamwork and collaboration,...

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