Challenge Program on Water Challenge Program on Water and Foodand Food

Indo-Gangetic Basin Coordinating UnitICAR Research Complex for Eastern RegionWALMI Complex, Phulwari Sharif P.O.Patna 801 505, Bihar

Challenge Programs - Challenge Programs - OriginOrigin

2000 CGIAR restructuring• Improved impact

• Improved integration

• Emergence of CP idea

2002 Start of Inception Phase

CPs Water and Food Biofortification

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A g ro -e cosys te m s U p p er ca tch m e n ts A q u atic eco syste m s

In teg ra te d rive r b as in m an a ge m e nt

G lo ba l a nd na tio na l po lic ies a nd ins titu tio ns

Research Themes

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OBJECTIVES

Increase productivity of water for food and livelihoods - environmentally sustainable and socially acceptable

– Global diversion of water for agriculture kept at 2000 levels– Increase food production– Meet UN 2015 targets for reducing malnutrition and poverty

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Asia Africa CWANA LAC

Yellow River

Limpopo Sao Francisco

Mekong Volta Karkheh (Iran)

Andean basin(s)

Indo-Gangetic

Nile  

RIVER BASINS

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STRUCTURE AND FUNDING

– Consortium: CGIAR (5); NARES (7);

ARIs (4); NGOs (3)

Initial 5 years US$ 50 - 125mPotential 15 years ca US$ 200m +

Indo-Gangetic Basin – An OverviewIndo-Gangetic Basin – An Overview225.2 mha basin area225.2 mha basin area

747 million population747 million population 114 Mha cropped area 114 Mha cropped area

91.4% water use in 91.4% water use in agricultureagriculture

Percent population Percent population below poverty line-below poverty line-

30.5 30.5

High Potential – Low Productivity

Progress of CPWFProgress of CPWF Approved in Nov 2002 and entered in inception phase Fully functional from Jan 2004 First call – 50 projects approved At present 30 projects already started in different basins Out of this 9 projects for IGB More news available in www.waterforfood.org Next call expected in the middle of 2006 New research strategy – start Basin focal projects in 4

small basins immediately – spread across continents and ecological conditions

Objectives of Basin Focal projectsObjectives of Basin Focal projects Improve understanding of the nature and extent of water poverty and

vulnerability and the underlying causes of poverty and opportunities for poverty reduction

Improve understanding of issues, processes, opportunities and challenges associated with sustainable increase in agricultural water productivity for poverty reduction and enhanced food, health and environmental securities

Develop an integrated framework for assessing constraints and opportunities and identifying appropriate interventions for –

- the poor to enhance agricultural water productivity- The poor to benefit from improvements in water access, employment and

lower food cost- Enhancing health and environmental securities through increases in

agricultural water productivity

Focal projects – a key means of comparing and contrasting the situation in different basins – maximum of USD 800 K – 18-24 months duration

The data produced in each basin and the methodologies agreed to produce them will be intellectual capital (global public goods) offered by the CPWF

Help to prioritize researchable issues in each basin for the second call Initially BFPs will function for Mekong, Karkheh, Volta and S. Francisco

basins from August 2005 Lead Institutions CSIRO, IWMI, IRD, UC Davis Other partners for this BFPs will decided by lead institution and the

coordination project Other basins – IGB – next year – mid 2006 The methodological framework developed under GECAFS may provide a

good support for IGB basin focal project

Small grants (max of USD 75 K) – innovative methods and demonstrations of end user impact – call is in the initial stage

IFS-CPWF call already available in the website – USD 12 K – for young scientists of different basins for innovative new ideas – period 12-18 months duration

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