Data: World Bank Case for Sustainable Intensification through Irrigation: More food whilst maintaining ecosystems

Irrigation & Positive Ecosystem Services Mitigate droughts and floods Stabilize river flows Reduce silt loads Recharge aquifers Reduce Erosion

Irrigation & Negative Ecosystem Services Loss of environmental flows Destruction of natural habitats & wet lands Waterborne diseases - Malaria Water logging & Salinisation Groundwater mining

Activity Clusters in Irrigated Systems SRP Enhancing Success of Irrigation in SSA Revitalizing public irrigation systems Water Management in Eastern Gangetic Basin Managing salt–water balance in Indus and Central Asian irrigation systems Photo: Tom Van Cakenberghe/IWMI

Enhancing Success of Irrigation in Sub Saharan Africa Research Needs Assessment Workshop held in Addis (Feb 04-06, 2013) Objective: Identify technical, policy and institutional research needs to enhance success of irrigated Agriculture in SSA. Participants –Countries: Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania and Zambia. –WLE partners: Africa Rice, FAO, ICRAF, ICRISAT, IFPRI, IWMI –AROs: CSIRO, UNL, UEA, KCL, Regional Universities –Africa Union, CADP, FARA, –Private Sector: Illovo. Nine Research Concepts identified. Each are being developed into concept notes The first to develop a framework for evaluation is funded with W1W2 funding.

Concepts Identified Southern Africa –Success and failure of public smallholder schemes –Smallholder agribusiness partnership –Private irrigation —appropriate technologies and financing West Africa –PPP –Technical issues –Enabling environment East Africa –Water use for sustainable use with u/s, d/s linkages –Value chain Analysis

Public Canal Irrigation Systems E-Discussion in Jul/September 2012 A half a day workshop in Dec 2012 Thrust Areas: Irrigation System Bureaucracy, Change Management, Capacity Building, Performance Cost Recovery for O&M – Phase 1 funded with W1W2 Irrigation System Performance Drivers Changes to SLOs Adequacy, Equity and Reliability of Water for ET. WLE Partners: FAO in Asia

Salinity Discussion paper being developed Focus on Managing Salinity –Farm Level interventions – ICARDA –Regional Interventions – IWMI Likely to be of new institutional models to minimize negative externalities Business models to bring saline areas back into production Minimizing areas and drainage volumes – SBC, SEB

Water Management in EGP Availability: –The Ganges Water Machine –How to test the hypothesis and what are the policy implications? Access: –Assessing potential and challenges of groundwater irrigation in EGP –Managing the energy-irrigation nexus Achievement –Quantifying Variation in productivity –Identifying reasons for variation in productivity –What are the policy implication? Workshop in May 2013

How to make CRP a reality? Leveraging W3 projects Most projects are single center oriented. Mechanism to talk to other centers unclear. How will WG’s interact with SRPs Limitations to scaling out