Alain Vidal, Director of the CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food reflects on his trip to Cali, Colombia. Vidal addresses this question in relation to WLE: “Are we disabled by lock-ins to paradigms and mindsets which narrow,
Peter McCornick, Deputy Director General at IWMI, outlines key issues he hopes to see addressed at the The Economist Conference “Feeding the World: Asia’s prospect of plenty” on September 27th in Hong Kong.
As the focus and directions of the CRPs are now taking shape, we propose to convene a hands-on, practical, participatory meeting to focus on the operational ‘architecture’ (and the wiring and plumbing) of knowledge and information sharing and uptak…
Making management decisions about landscapes has always been challenging. It is very hard to predict how a complex system will respond when changes are made in the way that a resource is used or conserved. Unforeseen consequences can have calamitous re…
We should never stop remembering the terrible data. More than two million people, especially among children less than 5 years old, die annually from diarrheal diseases. Some among these kids were meant to become engineers, highly prominent scientists, …
