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The CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE)Led by IWMI
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Water Land and Ecosystem Vision:A world in which agriculture thrives within vibrant ecosystems, where communities have higher incomes, improved food security and the ability to continuously improve their lives
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4. Variability management
3. Addressing degradation
1. Eastern Gangetic Plains2. Business
models
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Through targeted impact pathways in four priority focal regions and at the global level
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Photo: Tom Van Cakenberghe/IWMI
WLE Strategic Research Portfolio: Information Systems
Provides an umbrella for WLE research by:• Systematically supporting
prioritization of intervention decisions that are most likely to reduce risks and improve lives and productivity
• Designing and implementing measurement and information systems to assess and monitor agro-ecosystem health and build stakeholder capacity in their deployment
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Provides solutions to:• Reduce land degradation
in rainfed landscapes• Sustain productive
landscapes by increasing biodiversity
• Reduce risk and tackle productivity / environment challenges in farming landscapes
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kica Bahri/IW
MI
WLE Strategic Research Portfolio: Rainfed Farming Systems
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Provides solutions to bring nutrients back into production systems through:• Business opportunities for resource
recovery and reuse• Safe wastewater and excreta reuse• Efficient water and land
management in peri-urban areas• Addressing safety concerns where
polluted water is used for irrigation
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ndrea Silverm
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WLE Strategic Research Portfolio: Resource Recovery and Reuse
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Jointly with rainfed and RRR portfolios:• Identify economically viable
management opportunities to increase land and (blue) water productivity for increased incomes and food security
• Analyze pillars for an enabling environment to promote smallholder irrigation
• Evaluate private, public, and PPP models to sustain irrigation infrastructure
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WLE Strategic Research Portfolio: Irrigated Farming Systems
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Integrates future scenarios of water needs of key sector and the environment to improve water security through:• Managing water resources’
variability and re-thinking storage in basins
• Resource allocation and benefit sharing
• Water and energy for food• Water data and accounting in
basins
WLE Strategic Research Portfolio: Basins
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Equity in gender, poverty, and institutions integrated into all WLE SRPs to support:• More equitable access
to water, land and ecosystems services
• Improved decision making and enabling environment (institutional, policy, capacity) for change
• Investable options for women
WLE Cross-Cutting Theme: Gender, Poverty and Institutions
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Applies a systems perspective to:• Develop ecosystem
service-based management options
• Develop and refine a methodology for measuring ecosystem service status and delivery
WLE Cross-Cutting Theme: Ecosystem Services and Resilience
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How can you engage?• Defining the development challenges for the four focal
regions - Indus/Ganges is one of the four.• An anticipated $7 million will be available for investments
in the four focal regions in 2014 to be programmed.• Gender and innovation funds for 2014 $1 million and $2
million respectively.• This will be an open call with strict criteria that will be
funded for at least 2 years (2014 – 2015).• There is on going discussion on creating a specific
partnership fund for 2014.
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