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3 March 2016
The Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves explicitly prioritizes women’s empowerment in its mission statement. It implements a robust gender capacity building program to ensure cooking sector enterprises prioritize and understand how to integrate gender throughout their business models.
22 January 2016
Multiple challenges such as limited recognition impede women’s participation in the agriculture sector. More can be achieved in irrigation when women farmers are encouraged to participate and reach their full potential in light of changing economic and social patterns, increasing populations, and…
22 January 2016
This document presents a broadened perspective of governance in irrigation. It discusses these three key aspects: (i) lessons learned and opportunities to strengthen institutional, policy, and legal frameworks to improve performance; (ii) changing rural dynamics and the feminization of agriculture…
21 January 2016
This document presents efforts to quantify the links between energy and agriculture. It discusses how to implement suitable innovative technologies and approaches for improved water and energy productivity. It also explains in more detail, the impediments and opportunities on scaling-up and…
21 January 2016
Financing is more than just finding the money for investment and operations of the irrigation and drainage sector. It can be a powerful agent of reform provided a sustainable financing system is in place. This document suggests conditions for creating greater financial sustainability of Asia’s…
21 January 2016
Asia faces the daunting prospect of continuously having to cope with population growth, urbanization, and water insecurity, among other serious issues. Innovation and new technology across multiple sectors are vital to scaling up different approaches in meeting various challenges from the region.
21 January 2016
Poor management operation and maintenance affects the water-energy-food nexus. An unsuccessful public irrigation management is the result of an unreliable and insufficient approach. A huge potential exists for the private sector to participate in and contribute to addressing the challenges of…
21 January 2016
The struggle for more efficient irrigation financing remains a challenge both in the public and private sectors. Stakeholders need to work together to find sustainable solutions for long-term gains toward improved financing that will deliver the desired results.
21 January 2016
India is on the threshold of a solar revolution. Solar-powered irrigation pumps can either be a challenge or solution to the groundwater crisis in the country, depending on how it is promoted among farmers. This presentation explores the rise of solar energy and its potential to transform India’s…
21 January 2016
Producing more food using less water is possible with the use of modern and innovative technology. This video focuses on how remote sensing and satellite technology can be used to improve crop water productivity and irrigation systems planning.