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Evolving Nile Basin research: From livestock-water to rainwater management...
Multi-stakeholder conversation on land and waterIn late 2011, all projects in the Nile Basin Development Challenge prepared ‘most significant change’ stories from the first phase of operations. One of...
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Multi-scale participatory mapping to answer the question: Where does which...
Maksenit (Amhara) community members playing an adapted version of the ‘Happy Strategies’ Game (photo credit: ILRI/Catherine Pfeifer) One of the sub-projects of the Nile Basin Development Challenge...
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Agricultural water management in rainfed crop-livestock systems
Sabine Douxchamps, Augustine Ayantunde and Jennie Barron at the sister Volta Basin Development Challenge just published a study of agricultural water management in rainfed crop-livestock systems of the...
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Planning the next 14 months of the Nile Basin Development Challenge
The Nile Basin Development Challenge (NBDC) is entering its final year. By December 2013, all activities funded through the Challenge Program for Water and Food (CPWF) need to be complete. A planning...
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Looking back before moving on: Catherine Pfeifer the NBDC targeting game master
Catherine Pfeifer, Post-doc at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), is going back to Switzerland in late December. For the...
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Enhancing the adaptive capacities of Ethiopian communities to deal with...
Participants of Lessons and success stories from a pilot project on climate change adaptation interventions in Kabe watershed workshop (Credit: ILRI/Zerihun Sewunet) The project ‘Enhancing communities’...
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Rhetoric versus realities: Rainwater management development processes in the...
The CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food just published a new report from the Nile Basin setting out ways to enhance rainwater management (RWM) development processes. In Ethiopia, considerable...
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Nile BDC science meeting reviews emerging research findings
Six months before its formal end as a project, the Nile Basin Development Challenge (NBDC) hosted a science meeting to share ongoing and finalised research results. 60 participants met on 9 and 10 July...
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Nile BDC shares lessons on innovation platforms at Africa Agricultural...
The NBDC sent five representatives including two local innovation platform (IP) members to a special session on ‘engagement platforms’ at the sixth Africa Agricultural Science Week (AASW) organised by...
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Regional stakeholder dialogue assesses Nile BDC research on natural resources...
On 23 and 24 July, the Nile BDC organised a regional stakeholder dialogue in Bahir Dar to share emerging findings on land and water management with partners from Ethiopia’s regions and explore how to...
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Nile Basin Development Challenge comes to a (public) close behind closed...
The Nile Basin Development Challenge (NBDC) is coming to an end in late 2013, as will all Basin challenges of the Challenge Program for Water and Food (with the exception of the Ganges basin for...
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FEAST tool helps local innovation platforms identify feed intervention...
The NBDC recently organized a capacity building workshop (8-10 May 2013) to address feed resource needs identified by local NBDC partners and beneficiaries. Innovation platforms (IP) established by the...
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Effect of current livestock feed sourcing and feeding strategies on livestock...
Inefficient management and use of water is unanimously the most single constraint of agricultural production of Ethiopia. This study was conducted to assess the effect of livestock feed sourcing and...
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Integrated termite management in degraded crop land in Diga District – A...
Termites are a major pest in the semi-arid and sub-humid tropics. They pose a serious threat to agricultural crops, forestry seedlings, rangelands and wooden structures. In Ethiopia the problem is...
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Fodder interventions by Jeldu Innovation Platform tackle natural resource...
The Nile Basin Development Challenge (NBDC) Program of the Challenge Program on Water and Food (CPWF) has been working in three woredas (districts) in Ethiopia – Jeldu, Diga and Fogera. Each of the...
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Nile BDC research and outcomes in summary
The Nile Basin As the Nile Basin Development Challenge (NBDC) comes to an end this short document from the CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food offers a summary of research conducted in the past...
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Identifying strategies to increase Livestock Water Productivity in the Blue...
A sourcebook from the CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food, entitled ‘Addressing Water, Food and Poverty Problems Together—Methods, Tools and Lessons’ presents more than 50 articles on how to...
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Integrate multiple interventions at watershed and basin scales – NBDC key...
In late 2013, the Nile Basin Development Challenge developed eight key messages. Taken together, these messages form a new paradigm that can help further transform policies and programs and better...
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Improve markets, value chains and multi-stakeholder processes to enhance...
In late 2013, the Nile Basin Development Challenge developed eight key messages. Taken together, these messages form a new paradigm that can help further transform policies and programs and better...
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