unpacking green growth - experiences from cpwf
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Presentation by CPWF Director Alain Vidal on CPWF experiences in Green Growth. Looking at how we boost production, balance the need for sharing benefits, and basis as the key role of ecosystem servicesTRANSCRIPT
Green growth: the need for unpacking the concept
Alain Vidal, CPWF Director
International High Level Dialogue: Bridging Land- and Water Management for enabling agribusiness development and Green Economic Growth
24 April 2012 – Wageningen – the Netherlands
Unpacking…
From river basin management to river basin development
Basis – the key role of ecosystem services
Boost – the potential for local innovation platforms
Balance – the need for sharing the benefits
Niger
Water, food and poverty analyzed in 10 basins
1.5 billion people
50% of the poorest < 1€/j
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Water availability (km3/cap)
Bangladesh
Bolivia
Brazil
Burkina Faso
China
Colombia
Egypt, Arab Rep.
Ethiopia
India
Thailand
Vietnam
World
Poverty: Is it the resources scarcity?
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Water availability (km3/cap)
Bangladesh
Bolivia
Brazil
Burkina Faso
China
Colombia
Egypt, Arab Rep.
Ethiopia
India
Thailand
Vietnam
World
…even in very dry areas ?
But water productivity remains very low over most areas
WP (estimated potential)
VoltaLimpopo
Nile
Niger
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Mekong
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Burkina Faso
Bangladesh
Bolivia
Brazil
India
Ethiopia
Ethiopia and Burkina Faso in agricultural phase of development
India and Bangladesh transitioning to higher value activities
Bolivia emerging slowly after decades of low
Brazil strong growth in the 60’s and in recent years to emerge as an industrial economy
General direction
From river basin management to river basin development
Gross National Income
Agriculture
contribution to GDP
(%)
Most African basins here
Changing economies
Gross National Income
Agriculture
contribution to GDP
(%) ....Problems...
Gross National Income
Agriculture
contribution to GDP
(%) ... Solutions
Basics need
Meeting urgent demand growth Emerging need for
sustainability
Increasing Role forInstitutions Providing basics
Protecting existing supportInvest in agricultural basics
Big invest in agric.Resource-sharing & protection
Developing pathways out of farming
Benefit-sharing (trading)Demand management
Supply-chain management
Basis The key role of ecosystem services
River basins provide a diversity of ecosystem services
Provisioning, cultural, regulatory, supporting
Most of these are understood individually, to a degree
As they develop, societies exploit these ES
Appropriate, invest, exchange, ruin…
…development is influenced by ESs …development modifies ESs
This represents opportunities and risks
Mekong: Hydropower and livelihoods
40 million people in the Mekong depend on fisheries for at least part of the year
Yet the entire region is looking to hydropower as Laos
Techniques, land and water uses exist that can increase benefits available to riparian communities and to dam builders
Fish-rice systems
Artificial wetlands
From Stone, 2011
BoostThe potential for local innovation platforms
Established around local specific production and marketing systems, ideallymerged into largercommercialization networks
Promote technologies improving production athousehold level, making products more marketable
Implement strategies improving market efficiency and reduce transaction costs along the value chain
Allow more money to flow to the producer an incentivefor improved farming practices
Limpopo: Rainwater management, innovation platforms and value chains
Strengthen agricultural value chains where market-related failures contribute to poverty
Greater alignment of production with marketrequirements
Appropriate technologies must fit existing livelihood systems and include socially acceptable incentives
Balance : The need for sharing the benefits
Move beyond sharing waters
Consider socially and economicallymost beneficial land and water uses
Successful experiences in the Andes(trust funds), financing ecosystemsrestoration and livelihoodsimprovement
Unpacking green growth?A few guiding messages
Basis: Despite challenges in many river basins, overall the planet has enough water (and land?) to meet the full range of people’s and ecosystems’ needs for the foreseeable future, but equity will only be achieved through judicious and creative management
Boost and Balance: Wise use of our L&W resources for strengthening (rural) livelihoods and ecosystem services requires simultaneously using them more productively and sharing L&W and their benefits more equitably
Institutions: Higher L&W productivity and greater social equity can be obtained only through a radical in change of policies and institutional arrangements in both developed and developing nations
