Title
Water Management and Malaria
Description
IWMI examines how water and land management strategies can reduce the disease-generating potential of agricultural systems including reservoirs and irrigation systems, thereby improving health, crop productivity, and livelihoods. Research on malaria is considered under different areas of research within IWMI.
CGIAR center
IWMI
Category
Research Program
Keywords
malaria
irrigation
resevoir
agriculture
water
land management
Contact
Priyanie Amerasinghe
E-mail
p.amerasinghe@cgiar.org
Title
Irrigation with Domestic Wastewater
Description
This research is aimed at supporting the WHO guidelines for safe wastewater irrigation and excreta use by identifying and testing interventions along the contamination pathway to reduce the adverse human health and environmental risks of using polluted water in agriculture and maximize the potential benefits of such use, in urban and peri-urban settings. The situation is different where heavy metals pose a threat and special measures are required. All projects related to the use of (urban) wastewater in agriculture are now grouped under the Water Quality, Health and Environment theme.
CGIAR center
IWMI
Category
Research Program
Keywords
irrigation
wastewater
urban
Contact
Priyanie Amerasinghe
E-mail
p.amerasinghe@cgiar.org
Title
Multiple Uses of Water
Description
In most, if not all, irrigation schemes around the world, canals or small reservoirs (tanks) are used for purposes other than crop irrigation, including drinking water (often without treatment). Several projects study the multiple use of water. By planning and designing for multiple purposes, water supply systems can provide better services to the rural and peri-urban poor. When combining services for productive and domestic water use, special attention needs to be given to water quality issues, as well as to sanitation and health education.
CGIAR center
IWMI
Category
Research Program
Keywords
irrigation
drinking water
water use
water quality
sanitation
Contact
Priyanie Amerasinghe
E-mail
p.amerasinghe@cgiar.org
Title
Water Resources Development and Health Impacts
Description
Water resources development may impact positively on human health by improving nutrition and the general socio-economic situation of people, but may also bring health hazards such as increased transmission of water-related diseases. Health impacts are assessed and addressed by development of improved tools for planning and management of irrigation or other water projects.
CGIAR center
IWMI
Category
Research Program
Keywords
water
water management
irrigation
drinking water
Contact
Priyanie Amerasinghe
E-mail
p.amerasinghe@cgiar.org
Title
Water Management and Environment
Description
This research seeks to identify and test interventions that safeguard the environment and associated delivery of ecosystem services vital to human well-being, while enhancing land and water resources management for agriculture.
CGIAR center
IWMI
Category
Research Program
Keywords
irrigation
agriculture
Contact
Priyanie Amerasinghe
E-mail
p.amerasinghe@cgiar.org
Title
Wastewater Agriculture and Sanitation for Poverty Alleviation (WASPA)
Description
The rising quantity of wastewater produced by urban and peri-urban communities is becoming a major health and environmental problem for developing countries. Wastewater's potential as a valuable resource is at the core of IWMI's WASPA program. The program's objective is to alleviate poverty through better personal hygiene interventions and to promote improved environmental sanitation practices through holistic strategies for wastewater management and household-centered sanitation.
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CGIAR center
IWMI
Category
Research Program
Keywords
sanitation
wastewater
agriculture
urban
peri-urban
Contact
Priyanie Amerasinghe
E-mail
p.amerasinghe@cgiar.org
Title
RUAF-CFF Project
Description
This project entitled "Resource Centre on Urban Agriculture and Food Security - Cities Farming for the Future (RUAF-CFF)" is a global initiative addressing urban food and nutritional security through provision of policy support and recognition for Urban Agriculture (UA). Cultivating the food crops especially green leafy vegetables, vegetables and fruits in and around the cities or at household level in cities ensure essential micronutrient adequacy, which are usually destroyed when the fresh and perishable food items are brought from long distances into the city. UA practiced by nearly 800 million people world wide, is a tool for nutritional security and balanced food consumption both in terms of food quality and quantity at house hold as well as community level.
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CGIAR center
IWMI
Category
Research Program
Keywords
food
security
nutritional
agriculture
urban
community
vegetable
micronutrient
Contact
Priyanie Amerasinghe
E-mail
p.amerasinghe@cgiar.org