The following article was originally published on India Water Portal. As Amol Singh Yadav, a folk artist hailing from Dasania village in the Bundelkhand region of Madhya Pradesh, stood up to sing his song about the Atal Bhujal Yojana (ABY), one could imagine how ambitious and potentially transformative the ABY scheme is for the management of groundwater at the community
Policies in the food, land, and water sectors are intricately connected, as they interact and mutually influence each other at the operational level, ultimately shaping their overall effectiveness. Policies within one sector can encounter obstacles from divergent policies in other sectors. Therefore, it is important to coordinate and ensure that related policies share common goals, while also identifying any potential
By Upali A. Amarasinghe, Madhusha Perera, Alok Sikka, Rabindra K. Panda, Arjamadutta Sarangi, Jonathan Lautze, and Surajit Ghosh With increasing water scarcity, assessment metrics like water productivity (WP) and water footprints (WFP) will receive greater attention as tools to inform policy dialogues and guide practical decisions. However, these indicators often omit critical nuances such as spatial and temporal variation. A
Water management is still key in the setting where water resources are abundant, like Laos. Water management for irrigated agriculture was discussed to enhance irrigation efficiencies in the first stakeholder forum of the year 2024 on 20 March 2024 in Vientiane Capital, Laos. The results of the irrigation sub-sector review conducted in 2018/19, was used as inputs for the discussion,
Read this blog in Spanish The joint effort of the Alliance of Bioversity and CIAT, in partnership with the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), has been instrumental in promoting and strengthening the integration of policy and investment tools in Colombia through the CGIAR Research Initiative on National Policies and Strategies (NPS). The second part of the course, “Policy Analysis
Read this blog in English El esfuerzo conjunto de la Alianza de Bioversity y el CIAT, en asociación con el Instituto Internacional de Investigación sobre Políticas Alimentarias (IFPRI), ha sido fundamental para promover y fortalecer la integración de herramientas de política e inversión en Colombia a través de la iniciativa de Políticas y Estrategias Nacionales (NPS). En este marco, se
In the latest webinar in the CGIAR Initiative on NEXUS Gains’ long-running series, experts investigated the complex connections between the WEFE nexus and One Health. “One Health advocates that human, environmental, and animal health are closely interlinked and that interventions should actively consider these interlinkages to achieve larger impacts,” explained Dr. Vartika Singh, a Senior Research Analyst at the International
Discover the challenges and solutions for sustainable development in landlocked Laos with Policy Pathways’ penultimate episode. Landlocked Laos The penultimate episode of Policy Pathways brings you to landlocked Laos; a country surrounded by large economic powers and replenished by the mighty Mekong River. Laos is home to over 80 different ethnic groups who make up a population of roughly 7 million people. Many of these people rely heavily on agriculture