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1 Coolidge, P.; Daines, D. R.; Hargreaves, G. H.; Miller, D. W. 1981. Irrigation projects document review. Logan, UT, USA: Utah State University. 5 vols. (Water management synthesis report no.1)
Water management ; Irrigation programs ; Project appraisal / Middle East / South Asia / East Asia / Central America / South America / Africa
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 631.7 G000 COO Record No: H067)
Includes the Executive Summary and four appendices. Appendix A: The Indian subcontinent. Appendix B: East Asia. Appendix C: Near East and Africa. Appendix D: Central and South America.
2 UN. ECLAC. 1990. Latin America and the Caribbean: Inventory of water resources and their use: Vol.1 - Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean. viii, 175p.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: P 2789 Record No: H012815)
3 Sullivan, G. M.; Huke, S. M.; Fox, J. M. (Eds.) 1992. Financial and economic analyses of agroforestry systems: Proceedings of a Workshop held in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, July 1991. Paia, HI, USA: Nitrogen Fixing Tree Association. xix, 312p.
Agroforestry ; Agricultural economics ; Economic analysis ; Methodology ; Data collection ; Land use ; Farming ; Maize ; Case studies ; Eucalyptus / Nigeria / Senegal / West Africa / Kenya / Costa Rica / Central America / Haiti / American Oceania / Central Java / Ecuador / India
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 630.2745 G000 SUL Record No: H013338)
4 Scherr, S. J. 1999. Soil degradation: a threat to developing-country food security by 2020? Washington, DC, USA: IFPRI. vii, 63p. (Food, Agriculture, and the Environment Discussion Paper 27)
Soil degradation ; Land use ; Food security ; Evaluation ; Developing countries ; Agricultural economics ; Irrigated farming ; Farmers ; Poverty ; Land development ; Policy ; Research priorities / South Asia / South East Asia / Mexico / Central America
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 631.4 G000 SCH Record No: H024229)
5 Maes, W. H.; Trabucco, Antonio; Achten, W. M. J.; Muys, B. 2009. Climatic growing conditions of Jatropha curcas L. Biomass and Bioenergy, 33:1481-1485. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biombioe.2009.06.001]
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The massive investment in new jatropha plantations worldwide is not sufficiently based on a profound scientific knowledge of its ecology. In this article, we define the climatic conditions in its area of natural distribution by combining the locations of herbarium specimens with corresponding climatic information, and compare these conditions with those in 83 jatropha plantations worldwide. Most specimens (87%) were found in tropical savannah and monsoon climates (Am, Aw) and in temperate climates without dry season and with hot summer (Cfa), while very few were found in semi-arid (BS) and none in arid climates (BW). Ninety-five percent of the specimens grew in areas with a mean annual rainfall above 944 mm year1 and an average minimum temperature of the coldest month (Tmin) above 10.5 C. The mean annual temperature range was 19.3–27.2 C. The climatic conditions at the plantations were different from those of the natural distribution specimens for all studied climatic variables, except average maximum temperature in the warmest month. Roughly 40% of the plantations were situated in regions with a drier climate than in 95% of the area of the herbarium specimens, and 28% of the plantations were situated in areas with Tmin below 10.5 C. The observed precipitation preferences indicate that jatropha is not common in regions with arid and semi-arid climates. Plantations in arid and semi-arid areas hold the risk of low productivity or irrigation requirement. Plantations in regions with frost risk hold the risk of damage due to frost.
6 Vermeulen, S. J.; Challinor, A. J.; Thornton, P. K.; Campbell, B. M.; Eriyagama, Nishadi; Vervoort, J; Kinyangi, J.; Jarvis, A.; Laderach, P.; Ramirez-Villegas, J.; Nicklin, K. J.; Hawkins, E.; Smith, D. R. 2013. Addressing uncertainty in adaptation planning for agriculture. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 110(21): 8357-8362.
Climate change ; Adaptation ; Uncertainty ; Agriculture ; Food security ; Developing countries ; Coffee ; Models ; Case studies ; Stakeholders ; Decision making ; Greenhouse gases / Sri Lanka / East Africa / Central America
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We present a framework for prioritizing adaptation approaches at a range of timeframes. The framework is illustrated by four case studies from developing countries, each with associated characterisation of uncertainty. Two cases, on near-term adaptation planning in Sri Lanka and on stakeholder scenario exercises in East Africa, show how the relative utility of ‘capacity’ versus ‘impact’ approaches to adaptation planning differ with level of uncertainty and associated lead time. A further two cases demonstrate that it is possible to identify uncertainties that are relevant to decision-making in specific timeframes and circumstances. The case on coffee in Latin America identifies altitudinal thresholds at which incremental versus transformative adaptation pathways are robust options. The final case uses three crop-climate simulation studies to demonstrate how uncertainty can be characterised at different time horizons to discriminate where robust adaptation options are possible. We find that ‘impact’ approaches, which use predictive models, are increasingly useful over longer lead times and at higher levels of greenhouse gas emissions. We also find that extreme events are important in determining predictability across a broad range of timescales. The results demonstrate the potential for robust knowledge and actions in the face of uncertainty.
7 Wouters, P. 2013. International law – facilitating transboundary water cooperation. Stockholm, Sweden: Global Water Partnership, Technical Committee (TEC). 87p. (GWP TEC Background Papers 17)
International waters ; Water management ; Cooperation ; Water law ; Surface water ; Groundwater ; Economic aspects ; Social aspects ; Environmental effects ; Watercourses ; Case studies ; River basins / Africa / Asia / South America / Central America / Europe / Zambezi River / Niger River / Mekong River / Danube River / Drin River
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H045905)
http://www.gwp.org/Global/ToolBox/Publications/Background%20papers/17%20International%20Law%20-%20Facilitating%20Transboundary%20Water%20Cooperation%20(2013)%20English.pdf
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Surface and underground water do not respect political boundaries. This means that states must cooperate to manage water. (GWP Strategy 2009-2013) Transboundary water resources contribute to the economic, social, and environmental well-being of communities around the globe. Despite their inter-connectivity (national, sectoral), challenges remain in efforts to integrate the management of water resources that are shared across national and administrative borders. As a meta-framework for international relations, international water law provides an identifiable corpus of rules of treaty and customary law that determine the legality of State actions with respect to water resources that cross national boundaries. International water law provides a platform for identifying and integrating the relevant legal, scientific, and policy issues and aspects pertaining to the utilization of transboundary watercourses (such as traditional reference to “all relevant factors and circumstances” in determining equitable use). At an operational level, international law offers a range of tools and mechanisms for implementation through concrete rules containing specific rights and duties as well as procedures that can be invoked in managing transboundary watercourses or resolving interstate conflicts. The GWP network includes a significant number of transboundary watercourses, many of which are covered by functioning treaties. However, some of these agreements are incomplete, or fail to cover the entire basin, or still fail to materialise. Despite the existence of identifiable rules of customary law, cooperation appears to be best facilitated where there are agreements in place. This paper reviews current best practice and suggests that the opportunities for effective transboundary cooperation are enhanced where the following five core elements are addressed in transboundary water treaties– scope; substantive rules; procedural rules; institutional mechanisms; and dispute settlement. Where transboundary watercourse States agree on how these matters will be dealt with in their international water-related relations, the potential for effective cooperation is increased; this is further enhanced where the institutional mechanism that is established (i.e. River Basin Organisation; Meeting of the Parties, and so forth) is fully functional. International law, through its very raison d’etre and functional application, aspires to facilitate transboundary cooperation so as to assist in achieving water security and the laudable goal of water for all.
8 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). 2007. Integrating science and technology into development policies: an international perspective. Paris, France: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). 288p.
Development policy ; Sustainable development ; Sciences ; Technology ; Institutions ; Policy ; Water resources ; Water management ; Water scarcity ; River basins ; Capacity building ; Energy resources ; Case studies / Africa / Germany / Vietnam / Australia / Brazil / Central America / Austria / Mali
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 330.96 G000 ORG Record No: H046008)
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9 Global Water Partnership (GWP). 2013. Proceedings of the Central American and Dominican Republic Forum on Water and Food Security: The Water and Food Production Nexus, San Jose, Costa Rica, 9 August, 2012. Honduras, Central America: Global Water Partnership (GWP), Central America. 40p.
Water resources ; Water management ; Water governance ; Water security ; Food security ; Food production ; Food policy ; Nutrition ; Climate change ; Aquaculture ; Irrigation ; Drainage / Costa Rica / Central America / Dominican Republic / Mexico
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H046011)
http://www.gwp.org/Global/Activities/Central%20America/GWPCAM%20Proceedings%20Forum%20FNS%202012.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H046011.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H046011.pdf
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10 Clayton, Terry; Victor, Michael. 2014. From research outputs to development outcomes: selected stories. In Harrington, Larry W.; Fisher, M. J. (Eds.). Water scarcity, livelihoods and food security: research and innovation for development. Oxon, UK: Routledge - Earthscan. pp.178-199. (Earthscan Studies in Water Resource Management)
Research policy ; Investment ; Environmental services ; Community development ; Resource management ; Sustainability ; Living standards ; Public health ; Models ; Floodplains ; River basins ; Water governance ; Multiple use ; Farmers ; Fisheries / Central America / South Africa / Ghana / India / Colombia / Bangladesh / Zimbabwe / Cambodia / Nepal / GaMampa wetland / Limpopo River Basin / Niger River Basin / Andean Watershed / Mekong Basin / Ganges Basin / West Bengal
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 333.91 G000 HAR, e-copy SF Record No: H046788)
11 Alam, Mohammad Faiz; Pavelic, Paul. 2020. Underground Transfer of Floods for Irrigation (UTFI): exploring potential at the global scale. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). 58p. (IWMI Research Report 176) [doi: https://doi.org/10.5337/2020.204]
Flood irrigation ; River basins ; Groundwater recharge ; Aquifers ; Water storage ; Water supply ; Water demand ; Drought ; Economic analysis ; Cost benefit analysis ; Benefit-cost ratio ; Flood control ; Disaster risk reduction ; Mitigation ; Ecosystem services ; Watershed management ; Water resources ; Water management ; Surface water ; Water availability ; Climate change ; Water security ; Food security ; Policies ; Stakeholders ; Groundwater irrigation ; Infrastructure ; Wells ; Pumps ; Crop production ; Land use ; Rain ; Monsoon climate ; Socioeconomic environment ; Urban areas ; Rural areas ; Models / South Asia / South East Asia / Central Asia / South America / North America / Central America / Europe / Africa South of Sahara / North Africa / India / Ethiopia / Thailand / Uttar Pradesh / Awash Basin / Ramganga Basin / Chao Phraya Basin / Ganges River Basin
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI Record No: H050008)
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This report presents a spatial analysis conducted at global scale to identify areas of high suitability for implementing the Underground Transfer of Floods for Irrigation (UTFI) approach. The study used multiple global spatial datasets, and the related data were arranged under three categories – water supply, water demand and water storage – to assess global UTFI suitability. Among the river basins with high suitability, the Awash in Ethiopia, Ramganga in India (one of the major tributaries of the Ganges River Basin) and Chao Phraya in Thailand were selected for the economic analysis in this study. The results from this study are intended to provide a first step towards identifying the broad areas (at the river basin or country scale) where more detailed investigation would be worthwhile to ascertain the technical and economic feasibility of UTFI, with greater confidence.
12 Fan, X.; Miao, C.; Duan, Q.; Shen, C.; Wu, Y. 2021. Future climate change hotspots under different 21st century warming scenarios. Earth’s Future, 9(6):e2021EF002027. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2021EF002027]
Climate change ; Forecasting ; Global warming ; Extreme weather events ; Precipitation ; Temperature ; Emission ; Models ; Uncertainty ; Indicators / Central Africa / West Africa / Southern Africa / Central America / Arctic Region / Indonesia / Tibetan Plateau / Amazon
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H050397)
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1029/2021EF002027
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H050397.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H050397.pdf
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Identifying climate change hotspot regions is critical for planning effective mitigation and adaptation activities. We use standard Euclidean distance (SED) to calculate integrated changes in precipitation and temperature means, interannual variability, and extremes between different future warming levels and a baseline period (1995–2014) using the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP6) climate model ensemble. We find consistent hotspots in the Amazon, central and western Africa, Indonesia and the Tibetan Plateau at warming levels of 1.5 °C, 2 °C and 3 °C for all scenarios explored; the Arctic, Central America and southern Africa emerge as hotspots at 4 °C warming and at the end of the 21st century under two Shared Socioeconomic Pathways scenarios, SSP3-7.0 and SSP5-8.5. CMIP6 models show higher SED values than CMIP5, suggesting stronger aggregated effects of climate change under the new scenarios. Hotspot time of emergence (TOE) is further investigated; TOE is defined as the year when the climate change signal first exceeds the noise of natural variability in 21st century projections. The results indicate that TOEs for warming would occur over all primary hotspots, with the earliest occurring in the Arctic and Indonesia. For precipitation, TOEs occur before 2100 in the Arctic, the Tibetan Plateau and Central America. Results using a geographical detector model show that patterns of SED are shaped by extreme hot and dry occurrences at low-to-medium warming, while precipitation and temperature means and extreme precipitation occurrences are the dominant influences under the high emission scenario and at high warming levels.
13 Krauss, J. E.; Krishnan, A. 2021. Global decisions versus local realities: sustainability standards, priorities and upgrading dynamics in agricultural global production networks. Global Networks, 24p. (Online first) [doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/glob.12325]
Agricultural production ; Agricultural value chains ; Sustainability ; Standards ; Horticulture ; Cocoa industry ; Stakeholders ; Farmers ; Livelihoods ; Policies ; Certification ; Social aspects ; Economic aspects ; Environmental factors ; Case studies ; Models / Africa South of Sahara / Central America / Nicaragua / Kenya
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H050408)
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/glob.12325
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Voluntary sustainability standards (VSSs) in global production networks (GPNs) have grown significantly in prominence. Existing research largely assumed that VSSs create linear upgrading outcomes for all GPN actors and has studied VSSs from the point of adoption in the GPNs, rather than a broader range of stages in their lifecycle. To address these limitations, and building on literature around power and agency in GPNs, we develop the constellation of priorities (CoP) model to unpack the diverse and often diverging boardroom (Northern lead firm) and local (Southern supplier) priorities involved in such standards. Through in-depth fieldwork on horticulture in Kenya and cocoa in Nicaragua across the VSS lifecycle, we find significant divergences in priorities between farmer groups in both countries and lead firms in the UK and Germany. We demonstrate analytically and empirically that diverging priorities coupled with power asymmetries produced contestations, leading to simultaneous economic and environmental downgrading, and social upgrading.
14 UNESCO; UNESCO International Centre for Water Security and Sustainable Management (i-WSSM). 2021. The Role of sound groundwater resources management and governance to achieve water security. Paris, France: UNESCO; Daejeon, Republic of Korea: UNESCO International Centre for Water Security and Sustainable Management (i-WSSM). 280p. (Global Water Security Issues Series 3)
Groundwater management ; Water security ; Policy making ; Drinking water ; International waters ; Aquifers ; Stakeholders ; Seawater ; Climate change ; Freshwater ; Conflicts ; Sustainable development ; Groundwater recharge ; Water supply ; Uncertainty ; Salinity ; Water quality ; Surface water ; Decision making ; Water use ; Water rights ; Water policies ; Case studies / Spain / Chile / China / Sri Lanka / Central America / Southern Africa / Zimbabwe / Zambia / Namibia / Castilla / Leon / Copiapo / Murray-Darling Basin
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H050651)
https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000379093/PDF/379093eng.pdf.multi
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H050651.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H050651.pdf
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15 Cullmann, J.; Dilley, M. (Ed.); Egerton, P.; Grasso, V. F. (Ed.); Honore, C.; Lucio, F.; Luterbacher, J.; Nullis, C.; Power, M.; Rea, A.; Repnik, M.; Stander, J.; Idle, T. (Ed.); Msemo, N. (Ed.); Baubion, N.; Roudier, P.; Woillez, M.- N.; Gomes, A. M.; Dobardzic, S.; Pina, C. L.; Naran, B.; Richmond, M.; Harding, J.; Macasil, M. L. K.; Chaponniere, E.; Hoyer, B.; Losenno, C.; Vaananen, E.; Baugh, C.; Prudhomme, C.; Brovko, E.; Giusti, S.; Hoogeveen, J.; Maher, S.; Neretin, L.; Pek, E.; Gutierrez, A.; Ramage, S.; Venturini, S.; Intsiful, J.; Barnwal, A.; Iqbal, F.; Aich, V.; Debevec, L.; Grey, S.; Sumner, T.; Marsden, K.; Katsanakis, R.; Sengupta, R.; Bensada, A.; Olhoff, A.; Ivanova, O.; Kappelle, M.; Nield, M.; Wang, Y.; Bertule, M.; Glennie, P.; Lloyd, G. J.; Benchwick, G.; Creitaru, L.; Larroquette, B.; Stephens, E.; Properzi, F.; Schade, M.; Bogdanova, A.- M.; Kull, D.; de France, J.; Aich, V.; Alexieva, A.; Bastani, H.; Berit, A.; Berod, D.; Bode, G.; Boscolo, R.; Chernov, I.; de Coning, E.; Eggleston, S.; Ehlert, K.; Delju, A.; Douris, J.; Gallo, I.; Kim, H.; Migraine, J.- B.; Msemo, N.; Polcher, J.; Sparrow, M.; Stefanski, R.; Tripathi, R.; Vara, R. L. S.; Woolnough, S.; Zuniga, J. A.; Christiana, P.; Luo, T.; Saccoccia, L. 2021. 2021 state of climate services: water. Geneva, Switzerland: WMO. 46p. (WMO No.1278)
Water resources ; Climate change ; Information services ; Early warning systems ; Socioeconomic aspects ; Communities ; Flooding ; Water stress ; Drought ; Forecasting ; Governance ; Water supply ; Gender ; Decision making ; Disasters ; Economic losses ; Hurricanes ; Resilience ; Policies ; Hydroelectric power generation ; Meteorological stations ; Disaster risk management ; Disaster risk reduction ; Natural disasters ; Case studies / Asia / Thailand / Africa / Gambia / Europe / Slovakia / North America / Central America / Hondura / Caribbean / South America
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H050659)
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