Challenge Program for Water & Food

Ganges Basin Development Challenge

Increasing the Resilience of Agricultural and Aquaculture Systems in the Coastal Areas of the Ganges Delta
1 June 2011

Ganges Basin Development Challenge

CPWF : What we hope to Achieve Why the Ganges Basin? How we hope to achieve these results? Using Partnerships and Synergies to achieve scale: Ganges Partners The 5 CPWF Programs : G1-G5

What the Ganges BDC Hopes to Achieve? Goal

Reducing poverty, improving resilience, thru improved water governance and management & intensified and diversified agricultural and aquaculture systems in brackish water of the coastal Ganges.

Objectives
Improve resource productivity and increase the resilience of agriculture and aquaculture systems in brackish coastal areas of the Ganges.

Ganges- Basin Development Challenge

Why the Ganges Basin? Bangladesh and India rank first and second in terms of climate change risk. Poverty, Agricultural Dependence are the basis of South Asian Risk. The areas of Bangladesh and India most at risk are the costalsaline zones of Ganges Basin.

Lessons learned in our coastal saline areas have application in almost every coastal community around the world.

How we will do this?

Good Science that looks at the entire issue
Seeking Global Synergies across a range of disciplines

Communications: Takes results and spreads them nationally, regionally and globally. Partnerships with a range of stakeholders that seek to speed the process of getting results to users

How will we do this?

Complementarity Ganges BDC research program is designed to build on the achievements of other completed or on-going initiatives globally and in coastal areas of the Ganges
Phase 1- CPWF Programs PN07 - Improving productivity in salt-affected areas PN10 - Coastal resource management for improving livelihoods (CRESMIL) PN16 - Aerobic rice system PN23 - Resource management for sustainable livelihoods PN34 - Improved fisheries in tropical reservoirs PN35 - Community-based fish culture PN42 - Groundwater governance in IGB and YRB PN48 - Strategic analysis of river linking

How will we do this?

Strategy

Focus on three streams of innovation, integrate them, and then scaleup these strategies to a wider range of polder categories and land types First stream: Water management, water governance and the future of water for agriculture. (G3 and G4) Second stream: development of institutions for community-based resource management. (G3, G5) Third stream: farming systems crop management practices for salt-affected lands. (G1, G2).

How will we do this?

Scale: We work at multiple scales.

Agriculture and aquaculture technologies will be tested at the basin level and within polders at the field/farm scale (G2); Work on water governance and management will be carried out the basin level and at the community and polder scale (G3, G4); Planning and extrapolation domain identification will be conducted at the polder level (G1, G4).

How will we do this?

Scaling Up: Partnerships (G5) working with

Government- AIS NGOs Private Sector Ongoing Projects and Studies

Bangladesh CIP Cereal Systems Initiative For South Asia (CSISA) Global Agriculture Food Security (GAFSP) Master Plan for the Southern Delta

CGIAR CRPs focused on Bangladesh and India

Ganges Basin Development Challenge

Support to Bangladesh CIP Programs 1. Sustainable and diversified agriculture through integrated research 2. Improved water management and infrastructure for irrigation purposes 3. Fisheries and Aquaculture Development 4. Strengthened capacities for implementation and monitoring of NFP and CIP actions

G1. Resource profiles, Extrapolation Domains and Land-Use Plans

Establish a geo-referenced data base for the brackish water coastal zone Development of detailed land-use plans Likely outcomes : Better targeting of technologies: Better decision making for local government, private sector and extension services. Improved land-use planning use within polders.
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G2: Resilient, Intensified and Diversified Agriculture and Aquaculture Systems (India and Bangladesh)
Validate germplasm suitable for coastal agricultural cropping systems and work with others to establish seed distribution networks . Develop and disseminate productive, profitable, resilient, and diversified ricebased farming systems (including rice-aquaculture) Develop brackish-water aquatic farming systems for zones too saline for agricultural crops Produce technology and policy recommendations

Likely Outcomes: Increased incomes and improved resilience for coastal households and communities.

G3: Water Governance and Community-Based Management Water and Access to Water

Assess existing water governance and land use systems. Determine which governance systems offer the best outcomes for communities and reduce conflict across different users. How these governance systems best meet the needs of polder communities and the water requirements of different production systems.

Likely Outcomes: Better polder governance to support successful adoption of crops and diversified cropping systems; including aquaculture

G4: Modeling External Drivers of Change for Water Resources of the Coastal Zone Assess changes in external hydrology (and other external drivers of change) at
the basin level and within selected polders.

Model scenarios for climate change including salinity intrusion, water availability, drainage congestions and risk of inundation due to storm surges.

Simulate baseline and changed conditions in 2020, 2030 and 2050 at the basin level and for selected polders

Likely Outcomes: Better information on which to base planning and policy decisions for politicians and policymakers.

G5. Coordination and Change-Enabling Project

Coordination and quality of research: Coordinate the BDC program working with G 1-4 to assure quality and relevance. Fostering change: Participatory impact pathway analysis. M&E will pick up on emergent opportunities. Communications: BDC communication to achieve changes that projects wish to see in their main target actors and scale up or research results. Adaptive management: M&E should provide the information and insight on which good adaptive management decisions are made Innovation research: G5 will work with G1-4 to find innovative ways to turn research into developmental outcomes
Outcomes

Effective cooperation and coordination among research teams Policy that supports application and scaling out of research findings Development partners using research findings

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