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.
Andes • Ganges • Limpopo • Mekong • Nile • Volta
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
Andes • Ganges • Limpopo • Mekong • Nile • Volta
Linkages of Project activities
Andes • Ganges • Limpopo • Mekong • Nile • Volta
V2 Project sites in Burkina Faso & Ghana
Andes • Ganges • Limpopo • Mekong • Nile • Volta
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
Andes • Ganges • Limpopo • Mekong • Nile • Volta
MerciThank You