In this episode of Let’s Talk Trees, World Agroforestry (ICRAF) bioenergy research scientist Mary Njenga, and Associate Director for Gender Initiatives at Pennsylvania State University Ruth Mendum discuss their experiences working with such communities in Uganda, Kenya and Ethiopia.
IWMI’s Santosh Nepal shared insights about the Bhotekoshi floods, urging authorities that future infrastructure cannot be designed only around conventional flood estimates and must account for changing hazards and cascading disasters. The post Experts call for new Himalayan Risk Strategy after Bhotekoshi floods first appeared on International Water Management Institute (IWMI). [...]
For millions of farmers, late rainfall, a failed rainy season or devastating flood can determine whether a harvest becomes food and income—or debt and loss. The post Africa won’t transform food systems without investing in water first appeared on International Water Management Institute (IWMI). [...]
At UNCCD COP17, IWMI presented a strategy for a financing framework to shift drought finance from crisis response to resilient investments. The post IWMI’s Drought Action Catalyst to help countries close drought financing gap first appeared on International Water Management Institute (IWMI). [...]
Second in a three-part series, IWMI’s Chaturangi Wickramaratne argues that “rights of nature” offers the strongest foundation for wetland governance. The post Rights of nature or human rights? first appeared on International Water Management Institute (IWMI). [...]
Over the past five years, India’s agricultural solar program, PM-KUSUM, has installed over 2.5 million solar pumps, making them affordable for smallholder farmers through subsidies. As the government prepares PM-KUSUM 2.0, the challenge is to advance the clean energy transition without continuing to over-exploit groundwater. The post If solar irrigation is over-drawing groundwater, you’re doing it wrong first appeared on International Water Management Institute (IWMI). [...]