wle investment plan

The CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE)An investment opportunity for 2013–15 • Led by IWMI

The challenges Food security . . .

The challenges Food security . . . resources . . .

The challenges change . . . climatic, demographic, economic

The critical issue facing humanity:

• The world is already short of water, land is being degraded and we are losing ‘ecosystem services’

• Can we feed 9 billion people in 2050 and produce 70% more food . . . without destroying the environment?

Yes we can, but only while

• Managing water, land and ecosystems so human beings and the environment prosper

• Increasing agricultural production and alleviating poverty while protecting nature

Big problems demand innovative solutions . . .

The CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE): reuniting agriculture and nature for poverty reduction

WLE is greater than the sum of its parts:

• Eleven CGIAR centers

• Hundreds of local partners

• Examples in the Volta basin include the Volta Basin Authority, CIRAD, SEI, iDE and many others

$1 of CGIAR research

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$1 of CGIAR research

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$9 worth of additional food produced in developing countries

Our 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

WLE’s three main goals are to improve

• Food security and the livelihoods of farmers

• The sharing of benefits and risks among users of ecosystem services

• Institutional arrangements across sectors

Over a decade and a half, WLE will contribute to

• Improving food security of 15 million smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa

• Enhancing food security and income for about 20 million people in the Eastern Gangetic Plains

• Minimizing health risks from wastewater and excreta-based fertilizer for tens of millions of consumers in Africa and Asia

• Reducing poverty in river basins like the Mekong, Indus, Andes and Volta by improving water allocation

WLE is truly global . . .

. . . with targeted interventions in 10 river basin regions

WLE global activities . . .

Focusing on how the poor benefit from ecosystems, and how to balance nature with growth

WLE global activities . . .

Engagement with government and non-government agencies to achieve development impact

WLE global activities . . .

Mainstreaming gender, poverty and institutional factors

WLE finance by numbers:

• $246m (three-year budget to 2014)

• $500m (planned investment in next 5 years)

• $40m (CGIAR centers’ 2012 contributions)

The Water, Land and Ecosystem Program

Interventions minimizing trade-offs across basins and landscapes

Cross-cuttingtopics

Regional interventions for impact Global insight

1. Irrigated farming systems

1. Irrigated farming systems

Profitable and sustainable irrigation systems for smallholders in up to 6 countries in the Nile, Volta and Limpopo river basins

2. Rainfed farming systems

2. Rainfed farming systems

Degraded lands are brought back into production

3. Resource recovery and reuse

3. Resource recovery and reuse

Waste and wastewater turned into a business opportunity for peri-urban agriculture

4. River basins

4. River basins

Access to irrigation water during drought is improved and seasonal flooding mitigated in the Gangetic Plains

5. Information and decision-making

5. Information and decision-making

Agricultural interventions and investments rely on solid information in forecasting economic, environmental and social impacts

Water, Land and Ecosystems . . .

•Integrates across sectors, disciplines and scales

•11 strategic partners and hundreds of local partners

•Addresses the needs of different stakeholders

•Moves research results to impacts on the ground

•Engages in policy processes at all levels

•Influences decision-making with evidence

•Understands how decisions affect gender and poverty

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