Water

Communities across the globe can build resilience to climate change by re-inventing old water storage strategies and investing in new ones, according to a new book by the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), a member of the CGIAR global partnership, which unites organizations engaged in research for a food secure future. Combining water storage and […]

It’s the ideal day to spend the coffee break mulling over the relationship between water, biodiversity, and agriculture in some of the world’s most critical life raft ecosystems – regions where poverty is high, populations are dense and highly dependent upon nature (agriculture, fisheries, logging) for livelihoods, and where ecosystem services are severely degraded. Read the full […]

Even though rice farmers in Bulacan province in the Philippines are quite concerned about the changing climate, they are even more concerned about water. Surplus in the irrigation reservoir that provides water for the area has been steadily decreasing over the past 30 years, due to droughts and increasing water demand from the nearby capital […]

Locatelli, B.; Imbach, P.; Vignola, R.; Metzger, M.J.; Hidalgo, E. J. L. 2011