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Alain Vidal (CGIAR Consortium) & Nicoline de Haan (CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems- WLE)

Stockholm World Water Week, September 4, 2014

Investing in equitable and sustainable solutions for a post-2015 world

The SDGs:

Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition,

and promote sustainable agriculture Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water

and sanitation for all Goal 7. Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and

modern energy for all Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries

What do we know about poverty?

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What do we know about poverty?

Links with • Food security and agriculture but not in a linear way

What we have learned through the Challenge Program on Water and Food (CPWF)• Multi-dimensional aspect of poverty - power dynamics and

political systems that systematically undermine the ability of the poor to maintain their entitlements, and their rights to access (Leach & Mears)

Food security and access

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Food security vs. productivity in Ghana and Burkina Faso

Source: World Bank, FAO

Farmers and technology

Markets and policies

Better livelihoods

Water and energy - common pool resource- mediated by institutions or

by technology- finite and deteriorating- demand for energy in

agriculture is increasing

Improved production through high yielding variety and management

Improve commodity markets/value chains and develop better policies

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What do we mean by the missing middle?

Access to the missing middle

Access• Why is access important?• Why is it relevant?

Areas to consider:• Change needed in societal structures• Ensuring productivity and equity • Answering who is investing?• From control to service (van Koppen) • Finite and deteriorating - ecosystems

Entry points

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Entry points for action on access

Meaningful participation• Participatory irrigation management and rolling up responsibility• 30% women in WUA• Needs from the users• Thriving institutions

Addressing structural constraints• Land tenure• Access to credit • Capacity development

Entry points for action on access

Build institutions that are able to deal with trade-offs• Accept the presence of multiple uses of water and energy• Think in terms of the nexus: water – food – energy• Not win-win – quality of process becomes important• Meaningful participation • Local solutions - provisional

Indicators?

In development – ideas:

Already working on:• Access to resources• Meaningful decision making

Productivity or water use efficiency is not adequate

Capacity to manage common pool resources at individual and institutional levels

Nexus connectivity indicator? e.g. the variation between the weights decision-makers would put on water, food and energy in investment and management decisions

The role of information

UNITING AGRICULTURE AND NATURE FOR POVERTY REDUCTION

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