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Challenge Programme for Water and Food: Less than two years to go, and much...

Spatial Analysis and Modelling group, one of the topic working groups involving NBDC From 6 to 9 February, the secretariat of the Challenge Program for Water and Food (CPWF) organized a meeting in...

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Nile BDC project reflection meeting: Focus on alignment, integration and sunrise

NBDC Reflection and Roadmap workshop, 21-22 May 2012, ILRI Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (photo credit: ILRI/Zerihun Sewunet). On 21 and 22 May 2012, the Nile Basin Development Challenge (NBDC) team held a...

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Gender and equity in the Nile Basin Development Challenge, a welcome focus area

The Nile basin development challenge (NBDC) of the CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food (CPWF) is integrating gender into its respective projects. Within each NBDC project gender, is integrated in...

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Nile BDC institutional histories: Looking at the past, present and future of...

The Nile Basin Development Challenge (NBDC) is in its final phase and its various teams are poised to document the interesting aspects of the work completed in the past years.  These crucial...

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Four thematic working groups get their act together to inform national...

The NBDC-supported national platform on land and water management has convened two meetings (in April and in December 2011). During the second meeting, it was agreed that the national platform should...

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Third national platform on water and land management meets in Addis Ababa in...

On Monday 23 and Tuesday 24 July, the national platform for water and land management holds its third meeting. This third meeting is organized with the project ‘Sustainable tree-crop-livestock...

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Third meeting of the national platform on land and water management – where...

The national platform on land and water management held its third meeting on 23-24 July 2012 at the campus of the International Livestock Research Institute in Addis Ababa. About 70 participants...

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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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Capacity building in progress: students’ theses for and through the Nile BDC

One of the objectives of the Nile Basin Development Challenge – registered as one of the outcomes that the program hopes to achieves – is to develop the capacities of various actors, including of...

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Embedding Nile BDC messages and results in Ethiopia’s development policies...

2013 is the final year for the Nile Basin Development Challenge (NBDC). On 20 and 21 February 2013, the NBDC convened a meeting of the  National Land and Water Management Platform to review progress...

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NBDC participates in IFAD water grant sharefair

On 21 May, the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) convened a sharefair to share lessons, identify promising solutions and ultimately improve the impact of investments in water in...

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From the silo to the landscape, the ‘research for development’ experience of...

During the recent NBDC science meeting, associate consultant – and former staff member of the International Water Management Institute – Doug Merrey took stock of a number of interviews carried out to...

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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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Real change in food security through innovation platforms, where science...

The change starts from those who are affected by the problem being around the table with those who want to experiment research and deliver options for development, sitting as equal partners. (Dr....

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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 BDC lessons documented in an ‘Institutional History’

The Nile Basin Development Challenge (NBDC) was a multi-disciplinary, multi-institutional participatory “research for development” (R4D) partnership that aimed to improve the resilience of rural...

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Nile BDC sets out 8 key messages on rainwater management in Ethiopia

Ethiopia’s policies and programs on sustainable land and water management have evolved over several decades and have had important positive impacts on land management and livelihoods. These policies...

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Rhetoric versus realities – A glimpse at NBDC science

This paper (which relates to the fifth paper from the Challenge Program for Water and Food ‘Research for Development’ series) is the first in a series of three interrelated papers and focuses on...

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Communication and knowledge management in the CPWF – an interview with...

Communication and knowledge management (KM) are among the pillars of the ‘Research for Development’ (R4D) approach of the Nile Basin Development Challenge and the wider Challenge Program for Water and...

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Improving agricultural water productivity through integrated termite...

Termite infestation is symptomatic of severe land degradation in many semi-arid regions of the Nile Basin. One characteristic of land degradation is low organic matter (OM) reserves in vegetative...

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