Land, Water and Livelihoods - Improving Livelihoods for the Rural Poor

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Theme Two research focuses on high-potential interventions that conserve resources and increase land and water productivity for better livelihoods, health and equity.
This covers a range of water management options in different socio-ecological settings.

Food security remains elusive for more than one billion people worldwide. Despite the benefits of the Green Revolution, declines in household food production are a reality for about 60 percent of the rural population in tropical and sub-tropical countries.  Poor land and water management practices and policies have contributed to accelerating the degradation of agricultural lands.

Research in Land, Water and Livelihoods examines opportunities for high-potential interventions across the hydrologic cycle which includes green and blue water; surface water and groundwater; water quantity and quality—and rainfed-irrigation. The goal is to improve water and land productivity to benefit the rural poor.  The broad range of land and water management solutions includes elements of groundwater management, institutional and policy analysis as well as health impact assessments.

FOCAL POINTS

• Intensifying low productivity systems
  
  
• Multiple use catchments and systems
  
  
• Rehabilitation of degraded land

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