Challenge Program on Water and Food

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Challenge Program on Water and Food

• Theme 3
• Aquatic Ecosystems and Fisheries

2
The Challenge

• Enhancing food security and livelihoods by
• maintaining aquatic ecosystems and
• optimizing fisheries

3

• Resources Rivers/streams, Reservoirs, Small
  water bodies, Ponds, Estuaries/Lagoons, Wetlands,
  Rice fields
• Services Fish Production, Biodiversity,
  Ecological services,

4
Researchable issues

• Policies, Institutions and Governance
•  Valuation of Ecosystem Goods and Services
• Environmental Water Requirements
• Improving Water Productivity

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Policies, Institutions and Governance

• Tools and methodologies for the design and
  management of governance systems for aquatic
  ecosystems and fisheries (co-management
  approaches)
• Information systems that will support the
  development and application of such governance
  systems (decentralized databases, research
  networks)
• Local capacity to develop, manage and support
  such governance systems (Community groups)

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Valuation of Ecosystem Goods and Services

• Economic assessment of goods and services
  provided by aquatic ecosystems (value of riverine
  ecosystem)
• Tools and methodologies for generating such
  information rapidly (tool box and guidelines for
  economic assessment)
• Improved understanding of factors determining
  access to aquatic resources and how these can be
  managed (Assessment of stakeholder
  access/relative value)
• Cost of degradation and recovery

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Environmental Water Requirements

• Improved methodologies for assessment of
  environmental water requirements of major aquatic
  ecosystems (river flow- ecosystem modeling tools)
• Improved understanding of the specific water
  requirements of coastal ecosystems (Assessments
  of estuarine water requirements)
• Tools for assessing the water requirements of
  riverine fisheries (Fishery production models)

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Improving Water
Productivity

• Weight or value/unit quantity of water?
• How livelihood and food security can be enhanced
  by integrating production and harvest of plants
  and animals?
• Sustained production from capture fisheries and
  enhancement increased production from
  aquaculture,
• Improved fish productivity at farm, community and
  basin levels

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Number of Projects approved - 16
Projects with Theme 3 contents-4
Community-based fish culture in irrigation
systems and seasonal floodplains  
Integrating fish and other aquatic resources into
other water uses. Methodology for measuring water
productivity. Fisheries enhancement  
60
30
1
Wetland-based livelihhods in thr Limpopo basin
TC Theme content B Number of basins
covered
10
Number of Projects approved - 50 Projects
with Theme 3 contents- 9
Integrated land-water management and fish yield
sustainability  
Integrated management of land and water
resources Decision support tools for sustainable
fisheries management Fisheries enhancement  
40
Improved planning of large dam operationusing
DSS to optimize livelihood benefits, health
environment
20
1
TC Theme content B Number of basins
covered
11
Number of projects selected
16Projects with Theme 3 contents
4
12
Number of projects selected
50 Projects with Theme
3 contents 9