Title: GECAFS IGB Basin Focal Project Grant Meeting1
1GECAFS IGB Basin Focal Project Grant Meeting-1
- Kathmandu, Nepal
- 13-15 December 2005
2Meeting Objectives
- Final review of five selected case study sites in
the Indo-Gangetic Basin - Review food system descriptions for five IGB
sites - Develop mutual understanding of how food systems
might be vulnerable to GEC - Outline draft BFP report for Feb 2006
- Develop workplans for BFP grant through July 2006
3Overview of GECAFS BFP grant
- Challenge Program for Water and Food
- Basin Focal Projects designed to (i) provide an
integrated framework for assessing the
relationships among water and poverty at a basin
scale - (ii) help develop appropriate interventions to
alleviate poverty and vulnerability to
water-related stress or problems.
4BFP grant GECAFS Objectives
- Improve understanding of vulnerability of food
systems to the stresses induced by GEC - Document food systems and analyze interactions w/
water stress and management - Develop methodology for basin-scale analysis
based on five diverse case studies
5BFP grant outputs
- 1.1 Literature review (delayed)
- 1.2 conceptual framework in progress
- 2.1 five case studies in progress
- 3.1 analysis of diversity across regional sites
in progress - Two regional workshops December 2005, June 2005
6BFP grant - deliverables
- October 2006 site descriptions GECAFS
participation in BFP method meeting in China - November 2005 (delayed) Literature review
- February 2006 mid-term report
- August 2006 final report
7Diversity within and across a basin GECAFS
approach
- Distinctions among west and east
- Used Rice-Wheat consortium differentiations as a
first cut - Chose five zones across the region
- Food Systems characterization studies will
further differentiate as well as give insight
into cross-region linkages
8BFP grant Objective 3
- Understand relationships of water and food
systems at multiple scales and integrate across
sample sites - Trends in vulnerability
- Connections among the five sites and importance
to food systems.
9IGP General Characteristics
- Western Region (1, 2 3)
- high productivity food surplus
- high investment in infrastructure
- major use of fertilisers and ground-water for
irrigation - in-migration of labour
- Eastern Region (4 5)
- low productivity food deficit
- poor infrastructure and low inputs of fertilizer
and water - high risk of flooding
- out-migration of labour
10GECAFS Research Sites in the IGP
Ludihana, Central Punjab, India wheat and rice
predominate, slow to stagnant productivity
growth, groundwater dependent, lots of
investment, high income levels, functional policy
support.
Ruhani Basin, Terai of Nepal rice preferred,
transition zone, seasonal flooding,
out-migration, sharecropping dominates,
urbanization increasing.
Gujarat, Punjab, Pakistan wheat dominates,
food self-sufficient, mixed irrigation, high
level of infrastructure, moderate income,
policies function somewhat.
Greater Faridpur, Bangladesh rice dominates,
flooding and concern over salt water intrusion,
low income levels, government institutions fail.
Vaisahali District, Bihar, India rice
preferred, low infrastructure investment,
flooding, low income levels, out migration,
little government policy support.
11Variables to document across the basin (at all
sites)
- General Area, land use statistics, population,
urban/ rural - Demographics Income, education, employment (?),
migration of labour - Agriculture irrigation (source, area),
productivity of major crops, input use - Food surplus or food deficit
- Infrastructure roads, electricity, drinking
water facilities, telecommunications, storage
facilities - Map showing topography, rivers, irrigation
structure
12Specific by site
- Food system
- Water issues
- Flooding
- Drought
- Groundwater/ surface water
- Policy background
13For tomorrow
- Please bring a copy of your food system matrix
(we can print it for you if necessary)