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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 : This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it (project leader) and This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it (project coordinator).  The project is a collaboration between King's College London,CIAT, UNAL and CONDESAN.

See also the BFPANDES blog, the summary of the Andean system of basins and the BFPANDES wiki and the BFPANDES stakeholders website (CONDESAN)

Project summary:
The CPWF Basin Focal Project for the Andes system of basins is working with a range of local stakeholders to develop a better understanding of the mechanisms for improving the productivity of water in the Andes. We consider productivity in broad terms as the productivity of energy (HEP), food and fibre (agriculture) and livelihoods (industry, transport and benefit sharing such as Payments for Environmental Services schemes (PES)).

One of the key deliverables of the project is the development and deployment of the Agua-Andes policy support system (PSS).  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 potential 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 defined futures for (climate and economic) change, policy interventions 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.
A test version of the Agua-Andes PSS can be seen below (click the image to explore futher).  The final version will be available here December 2009. 
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