The waterways of the Incomati Basin start in the highlands of South Africa and Eswatini, and ultimately flow to Mozambique’s Maputo Bay. Along the way, they run through a basin that is home to 2.3 million people and a wide variety of stakeholders. With the 2021 establishment of the Incomati and Maputo Watercourse Commission (INMACOM), the transboundary basin finally has
By Sumitra KC and Nisha Onta With the move from a unitary system to federal governance, Nepal is embarking on sectoral lawmaking processes. The Water Resources Bill 2024 is a pivotal piece of legislation, aimed at strengthening and improving the utilization, management, and conservation of water resources in the federal context. The bill will supersede the existing Water Resources Act
This post was originally published on the IFPRI South Asia website. Empowering Researchers in South Asia to Unlock Economic Insights About the training The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and the CGIAR Initiatives on Foresight and National Policies and Strategies, in partnership with the South Asian Network on Economic Modeling (SANEM), the Indian Council of Agricultural Research-Indian Agricultural Research Institute (ICAR-IARI), and
By Bukiwe M. Sibanda A pivotal three-day workshop on advancing integrated water storage in the Shashe Catchment, a sub-basin of the Limpopo Basin shared by Zimbabwe and Botswana, convened from 8 to 10 October 2024 in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. The event was jointly organized by Dabane, an NGO working to establish sustainable water management in semi-arid Southern Africa, and the International
By Meron Teferi Taye, Girma Yimer Ebrahim, Jonathan Lautze, Abdulkarim Seid, and Yonas Tafesse In the upper Blue Nile Basin, with its strong seasonal and often inter-annual variability of river discharge, any meaningful investment in the water–energy–food–ecosystems (WEFE) nexus needs to include water storage. Historically, though, decisions on water storage planning and management have not always drawn on a sufficient
Original article published in The Nation on 18 November 2024 To help address the water crisis in Pakistan, the International Water Management institute (IWMI) has installed the country’s first eddy covariance (EC) flux tower in Khwaja Fareed University of Engineering & Information Technology in Punjab’s Rahim Yar Khan district. The flux tower, which will inform research by the CGIAR Initiative on
The Sixteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP16) in Cali, Colombia, closed on 1 November, after 12 days of events and negotiations centered around the theme of “Peace with Nature”. Throughout the conference, the CGIAR Initiative on NEXUS Gains played an active role in highlighting the importance of water–energy–food–ecosystems (WEFE) nexus approaches.
By Giriraj Amarnath and Alok Sikka Knowledge and outputs from the International Water Management Institute (IWMI)’s two decades of research into monitoring and managing droughts are now available through a single platform. The new website “IWMI Drought Monitor”, developed with support from the CGIAR Initiative on NEXUS Gains, shares comprehensive information from the Institute’s work implementing drought-management innovations. As climate