A Partner of

CPWF Volta Basin Project “Integrated Management of Rainwater for Crop-Livestock

agro-ecosystems” (V2): Brief Overview

ARI

Andes • Ganges • Limpopo • Mekong • Nile • Volta

Project Overall Goal & Objective

• Overall GoalIncrease crop and livestock productivity through best fit Rainwater Management Strategies (RMS), and to improve water productivity at farm level.

• V2 Specific ObjectiveIdentify, evaluate, adapt, and disseminate best-fit integrated rainwater management strategies, targeted to different biophysical and socio-economic domains.

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V2 Project outputs1. Baseline characterization and inventory of RMS – review of secondary data, baseline surveys, policy and institutional analysis, value chain analysis, inventory workshops

2. Targeted recommendations for different actors and contexts of best integrated RM – participatory action research, multidisciplinary assessments of effects of selected RMS, modeling.

3. Tools, framework for integrated analysis – testing and adapting frameworks, training, guidelines

4. Dissemination and communication of project outputs – rainwater management innovation platforms and learning alliances with multiple actors, project workshops, project briefs, use of existing and new communication tools

5. Capacity building – training students, farmers and learning by rainwater management practitioners through innovation platforms

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Linkages of Project activities

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V2 Project sites in Burkina Faso & Ghana

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V2 Presentations1. Agricultural water management and livelihoods in the crop-

livestock systems of the Volta Basin – Sabine Douxchamps

2. Farm-level best-fit rainwater management strategies and soil improvement methods for seed and biomass yield in a maize-soy bean intercrop – Emmanuel Panyan

3. Impact of innovation platforms on marketing relationships – Zewdie Mariami

4. Performance of Innovation Platforms in Crop-Livestock Agro-Ecosystems in the Volta River Basin in Burkina Faso – Kees Swaans

5. Impact of V2 Innovation Platforms on Improvement of Crop and Livestock Production in Four Villages of Yatenga Province, Northern Burkina Faso – Gabriel Teno

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MerciThank You