AgWater Solutions is working with researchers, implementing agencies, NGOs, and communities in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Zambia, and in the Indian states Madhya Pradesh and West Bengal.
The project is using a nested scale approach to look at AWM solutions at the:
- farm/community scale (very roughly, 0-5 ha/10-100 ha and 10s/100s of people);
- watershed scale (50,000 ha and 10,000s of people); and
- national/regional scale (i.e., livelihood zone and agro-ecosystem scale within and across national boundaries).
The countries/states were selected based on:
- the number of potential beneficiaries,
- availability of water, and
- the potential for AWM to positively influence livelihoods.
Specific farm, community and watershed sites were selected based on:
- Where small-scale AWM interventions have been implemented by a variety of implementing organizations or by farmers themselves.
- Diversity across sites covering a variety of gendered farming systems, technology groups, intervention approaches and settings.
- High potential for AWM to positively influence livelihoods and agricultural production (while minimizing negative environmental impacts).
- Overlap across scales to ensure a nested approach.
Watershed study sites
Three watersheds have been selected: