CGIAR Challenge Programme on Water and Food Basin focal project for the Andes system of basins

This project forms part of the : Challenge Programme on Water and Food.  Contact : Mark Mulligan.  The project is a collaboration between King's College London, CSIRO, CIAT, UNAL and CONDESAN.

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Project summary:

The CPWF Basin Focal Project for the Andes system of basins is working with a range of local stakeholders to develop and deploy the Agua-Andes policy support system.  Agua-Andes is a web-based policy support system combining an extensive spatial database with process based models for hydrology, crop production and socio-economic processes.  It is intended to allow analysts and decision makers to test the potentila onsite and offsite impacts of land and water management decisions in terms of their ability to sustain environmental services and human wellbeing.  The system is provided in English and Spanish with a series of scenarios of (climate and economic) change, policy options and policy exercises for examining the intended and unintended consequences of particular decisions.  Though the remote sensing, database and modelling system are rather sophisticated, the  system requires very modest local resources and expertise to use.

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Study Area :

Andes system of basins (.shp) (Google Earth, .kmz)

Entire Andes (.shp) (Google Earth, .kmz)

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 Work packages:

 

1. Poverty Analysis
2. Water availability and access
3. Agricultural water productivity
4. Institutional Analysis
5. Intervention analysis
6. Development and application of knowledge base 

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