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National, Regional and Global Partnerships for Supporting Rural Livelihoods
Kristofer DodgeWLI Manager, ICARDA
[email protected] 11, 2014
Middle East Water and Livelihoods Initiative (WLI)Improving rural livelihoods through sustainable water and land-use
management
Research for Development Partnership
Overview
Water scarcity limits economic development Expectations for Coordination Meeting
2014 WLI Summary of Progress
“Benchmark” Approach
Understanding WLI’s rural communities
Water Scarcity in MENA
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Goal
To improve rural livelihoods and promote rural resilient communities in the MENA region by harnessing local, regional and international expertise.
Objectives
• Develop and pilot-test integrated water, land-use, and livelihoods strategies in selected benchmarks that represent the major agro-ecosystems for scaling-out
• Enhance the national human capacity
• Engage stakeholders in a policy dialogue
• Adoption of water saving and productive options and practices
Expectations of the 6th Annual Coordination Meeting
Goal for this Meeting
Plan 2015 Activities that map directly to WLI goals of increasing capacity of rural communities to deal with water scarcity.
Objectives
• Develop clear 2015 workplans with stated outputs and indicators that correspond to available budget.
• Identify training needs to complete tasks of workplans.
• Communicate, as a group, the limitations of developing and scaling technologies of the WLI.
• Commit to timely reporting of project progress and M&E data.
• Develop a strategy for leveraging donors with WLI resources.
WLI Capacity Building
Hosted ten regional and national trainings and sponsored three post-doc placements
with USDA-ARS in 2014
WLI Capacity Building
• Tunisia-National Stakeholder Workshop, Béni Khédache (December 13, 2013)
• Introductory Workshop on “Soil and Water Assessment Tool – Watershed Modeling Using SWAT” January 5-6, Amman, Jordan, funded by CRP-DS, ADA, WLE and WLI
• On-the-job training on WEAP modeling of Orontes River Basin, Beirut, Lebanon, April 16-17, funded by USAID
• Catalyzing Change through the Impact Pathway and Theories of Change; WLI Socio-Economic Thematic Group, Amman (April 16-17, 2014)
• Water Harvesting and Watershed Rehabilitation Training Course in Jenin, Tammun, and Al-Dahriyya. (5-15 May)
WLI Capacity Building
• Training on integrated management of salt-affected soils in Egypt, (21-23 June)
• Regional Training Workshop on Cost Benefit Analysis and Economics of Natural Resources Management (Amman, 24-25 June)
• Training on recycling agricultural wastes to improve farmer livelihoods in Nile Delta, Cairo, Egypt, (24-26, June)
• Aquacrop Training in Partnership with FAO; WLI Modeling Thematic Group, Cairo (24-28 August)
• Training course on operation, evaluation and maintenance of on-farm irrigation and drainage systems under saline conditions, Cairo, Egypt, (24-28 August)
WLI Capacity Building
Tunisian Post Docs Sent to USDA-ARS• Individual training for six-month focused on the Decision
Support System for Agrotechnology Transfer (DSSAT) model at ARS Forage and Vegetable Production Lab in Prosser, Washington, USA from March 1- Aug 30,
• Individual training for six-month focused on field studies of irrigated crop production and modeling at the ARS Wind Erosion and Water Conservation Research Laboratory in Bushland, Texas, USA from June 13- November 1, funded by the WLI
• Hydrology and Remote Sensing Lab, Beltsville, Maryland (in partnership with NASA on MENA WISP Project)
Publications and Presentations
• Muhaimeed, A., A. Al-Falahi, E. Al-Aini, E., A. Taha (2014) Developing Land Suitability maps for Some Crops in Abu-Ghraib Using Remote Sensing and GIS. International Geoscience and Geomatics Conference. Istanbul.
• Jabbar B., A.Alfalahi, E. Al-Ani, K. Saliem (2014) Integration of soil microbiological data with GIS maps and development of final land suitability maps. Baghdad
• Al-Mahasneh, L. (2014) Adapting SWAT Model to Assess the Impact of Water Harvesting Interventions on Runoff and Soil Erosion in an Arid Environment; A Case from Jordan. Master’s Thesis, University of Jordan
• Telleria, R., S. Akroush (2014) Farmers’ Perceptions of Water Policies: A case study from the Jordanian Badia. Amman (In Preparation)
• Nagaz, K. (2014) Potatoes response to irrigation regimes using saline water, Tunis. (Submitted)
Publications and Presentations
• El Mokh, F. (2014) AquaCrop simulations of full and deficit irrigation of corn in a semi-arid environment, Bushland (In Preparation)
• Annabi, M. (2014) Estimating climate change, CO2 and technology development effects on wheat yield in Tunisia. Prosser (In Preparation)
• Annabi, M. (2014) Estimating the effect of the future climate change on durum wheat productivity in northern Tunisia and the potential benefits of conservation agricultural. Prosser (In Preparation, Submitted to Agricultural System Journal)
• Temani N. (2014) influence of climate on citrus production and quality in northern Tunisia. Tunis (In Preparation)
• Sghaier, N. (2014) Future climate effects on wheat in northern Tunisia. Beltsville. (In Preparation)
Publications and Presentations
• M’hamed. (2014) Conservation agriculture as alternative to improve WUE of barley in semi-arid region of Tunisia. Tunis, (In Preparation)
• W. Ghazouani, F. Molle, A. Swelam, E. Rap, A. Abdo (2014) Understanding Farmers’ Adaptation to Water Scarcity: A Case Study from the Western Nile Delta, Egypt, IWMI Research Report 160, Cairo.
• Dodge, K., F. Ziadat (2014) Catalyzing, Distilling and Disseminating Agro-Ecological Knowledge at the Water-Energy-Food Nexus in the Global Drylands. Conference Paper The Water-Food-Energy-Nexus in Drylands: bridging science and policy 12-13 June, 2014- Rabat, Morocco. (In Preparation)
Approaches
• Ecosystem-based research for development
• Benchmarking and out-scaling
• Improving water productivity
Ecosystem Based
Rainfed systems300-500 mm annualRangelands
systems100 – 300 annual
Irrigated systems
Low and nonuniform rainwaterDry spellsLow yieldsGW depletion
Supplemental irrigation
Degraded rangelandsDesertificationRainwater mostly lost in evaporation
Water harvesting
Low WP SalinizationMarginal waterImprove WPSustainable use of marginal water
Willingness to Adopt and Cost Benefit Analysis of Implimenting
• Gender mainstreaming
• Dissemination and adoption
Gender: Building capacity & promoting alternative income generating opportunities to improve rural livelihoods
Palestine: Training women in cheese making and packaging Jordan:Equipping women groups with essential entrepreneurial skillsLebanon:Increase water productivity of eggplants, improve processing and marketing of preservesSyria:Enabling women small scale farmers to grow medicinal high value cash crops using drip irrigation
Adopting Proven WLI Technologies
Asses researchers’ perceptions and farmers’ willingness to adopt WLI proven technologies
Identify potential challenges and opportunities for adoption
Devise appropriate dissemination strategies
Country Technology /NRM Strategy
Partnering Institution
Egypt Raised bed ARC
Iraq Sub-surface irrigation under protected Ag
OaAR/MoA
Jordan Marabs NCARE
Lebanon Conservation Ag
LARI
Palestine Silage making
NARC
Tunisia Deficit irrigation for citrus crops
INAT
Thank You