Presented at the Final Volta Basin Development Challenge Science Workshop, September 2013

1. A Partner
of
CPWF Volta Basin Project “Integrated
Management of Rainwater for Crop-Livestock
agro-ecosystems” (V2):
Brief Overview
ARI

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Project Overall Goal & Objective
• Overall Goal
Increase crop and livestock productivity through best fit
Rainwater Management Strategies (RMS), and to
improve water productivity at farm level.
• V2 Specific Objective
Identify, evaluate, adapt, and disseminate best-fit
integrated rainwater management strategies, targeted to
different biophysical and socio-economic domains.

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V2 Project outputs
1. Baseline characterization and inventory of RMS –
review of secondary data, baseline surveys, policy and institutional
analysis, value chain analysis, inventory workshops
2. Targeted recommendations for different actors and
contexts of best integrated RM – participatory action
research, multidisciplinary assessments of effects of selected
RMS, modeling.
3. Tools, framework for integrated analysis – testing and
adapting frameworks, training, guidelines
4. Dissemination and communication of project outputs
– rainwater management innovation platforms and learning
alliances with multiple actors, project workshops, project briefs, use
of existing and new communication tools
5. Capacity building – training students, farmers and learning by
rainwater management practitioners through innovation platforms

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Linkages of Project activities

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V2 Project sites in Burkina Faso & Ghana

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V2 Presentations
1. Agricultural water management and livelihoods in the crop-
livestock systems of the Volta Basin – Sabine Douxchamps
2. Farm-level best-fit rainwater management strategies and soil
improvement methods for seed and biomass yield in a maize-
soy bean intercrop – Emmanuel Panyan
3. Impact of innovation platforms on marketing relationships –
Zewdie Mariami
4. Performance of Innovation Platforms in Crop-Livestock Agro-
Ecosystems in the Volta River Basin in Burkina Faso – Kees
Swaans
5. Impact of V2 Innovation Platforms on Improvement of Crop and
Livestock Production in Four Villages of Yatenga
Province, Northern Burkina Faso – Gabriel Teno

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Merci
Thank You