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The Comprehensive Assessment of Water Management in Agriculture critically evaluates the benefits, costs, and impacts of the past 50 years of water development, the water management challenges communities are facing today, and solutions people have developed. The results will enable better investment and management decisions in water and agriculture in the near future and over the next 50 years. The assessment is produced by a broad partnership of practitioners, researchers and policy makers. |
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The Assessment
The CA synthesis book has entered its final step. A few remaining chapters are in last review by their respective review editors. The rest are in the final stage and edited by the science editor. The summary for decision makers will be available at the World Water Week in Stockholm in August 2006 and the book in the final part of 2006. If you are interested in being informed of the book launching, email us. See the updated Book outline.
To contribute to the scenario chapter under review, a new Online Discussion was launched on the 2 June on “bio-energy: future implications for water management in agriculture”. Please register if you are interested casyn-scenarios@cgiar.org.
Global art competition: more than 160 pieces of art from around the world to illustrate water for food and water for Life
The CA, SIWI, RAMSAR, CBD, FAO, FANCA, Challenge Program on Water and Food organised a Global art competition to illustrate 18 key messages on water for food & for life from the 13 March to the 1 June 2006. We received 42 adult art pieces in the adult category and 122 pieces in the childrens' category. The selection process is ongoing. Read more on the competition in English, Spanish, French.
More information available: Newsroom
More news - CA Info Brief July 2006
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CA material will be presented at upcoming meetings and conferences. Check the newsroom for details.
- 20-26 August 2006, Stockolm Water week, a special session “From Assessment to Research and Actions: The Comprehensive Assessment of Water Management in Agriculture, and the CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food” on Thursday, 24 August 2006. [for more on the session - for more on the conference].
- 4-7 September 2006, 9th International River symposium, 'Managing rivers with climate change and expanding populations', next year, the tenth symposium on the 3-6 September 2007 will be on Environmental Flows, For further updates visit: www.riversymposium.com
- 18 – 22 September 2006, 2nd Regional Workshop on Agricultural Water Management (AWM) in Eastern and Southern Africa "Water for the Millennium Development Goal on Poverty and Hunger", Maputo, Mozambique. (Contact:
Prof. Nuhu Hatibu).
- 9-13 October 2006, 26 th IRRC at International Rice Congress (IRC 2006), New Delhi, India, More details on the Congress can be obtained from the website at http://www.icar.org.in/irc2006 or http://irri.org/irc2006.
- 12-17 November 2006, International Forum on Water and Food, organized by the Challenge Program on Water and Food (CPWF), Vientiane, Lao PDR, and hosted by the Mekong River Commission (MRC), Download the entire background document on this Forum and call for abstracts [PDF 124Kb]
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Water Figures, May 2006 Issue 2
This issue of Water Figures (IWMI newsletter) devotes much space to the Comprehensive Assessment
of Water Management in Agriculture (CA) and the imminent launch of its findings after five years of intensive research and consultation.
Download PDF(1.1 MB)
CA brochure, Influencing What Happens Next, draft version May 2005.
It presents the CA, its process, results and suggest next steps. Read the brochure [PDF 4.5 MB]
CA Research Report No. 11, 2006
Prospects for productive use of saline water in West Asia and North Africa. Stenhouse, J. and J. W. Kijne (PDF 1.6MB)
IWMI-Policy Brief, 19, Choosing Appropriate Response to Groundwater Depletion
Download PDF(427 KB) based on CA research published in IWMI research report " Policies drain the North China Plain: agricultural Policy and groundwater depletion in launcheng County, 1949-2000, IWMI research Report 71.
Minimum agenda on gender mainstreaming in water management, version presented at the WWF4. (English, French, Spanish)
CA publications can be downloaded from Publications, including the CA research reports 1-11, CA publications in partners' series, and the Blue Paper: Investing in Water for Food, Ecosystems and Livelihoods, Stockholm 2004 (PDF 556 KB) and the book, Water Productivity in Agriculture: Limits and Opportunities for Improvement (HTML Book Outline and Chapters).
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