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Project Overview |
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Smallholder Agriculture + Water = Solutions to Rural Poverty & Hunger |
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Finding new ways to give smallholder farmers more control over water and more control over their livelihoods |
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Smallholder farming can and should be an engine for economic growth, poverty reduction and food security. In many areas, reliable access to water is what's missing from the equation. |
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Project Methodology |
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Opportunities – Constraints = Successful Uptake of Innovations |
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Improving the success rate of agricultural water management projects and investments with a new, easy-to-use approach |
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While there are a number of well-documented methods for screening and evaluating agricultural and natural resources technologies, there is not an approach tailored to the specific challenges |
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Project Impact |
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AgWater Solutions + Partners = Impact |
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Helping 65 million people move out of poverty through better investments in agricultural water management
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Small-scale farmers make up the bulk of those living in extreme poverty in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, and they account for roughly half of the developing world's undernourished—around 500 |
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Project Gender Focus |
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Men + Women + Water = Greater Poverty Fighting Benefits |
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Using gender mapping and analysis to boost benefits from agricultural water management projects and investments |
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Agricultural Water Management (AWM) investments that enhance both women's and men's productivity are likely to yield the greatest gains in agricultural growth and poverty reduction, as well as narrow the |
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