Presented by IWMI's Meredith Giordano at IWMI-IFPRI policy seminar on 'Water security in a changing world' / official IWMI-DC office opening held on, July 12, in Washington DC.

1. Water security in a changing world
Meredith Giordano
IWMI-IFPRI Policy Seminar
Washington, DC
July 12, 2018

2. Building an evidence base to
sustainably manage water and
land resources for food security,
people’s livelihoods and the
environment.
IWMI’s Vision: A water-secure world

3. Our approach: Embedding research in the landscape
Working in partnership across sectors and disciplines to deliver new
knowledge, policy advice and capacity development for a water-secure world

4. 1. Agricultural water management: Understanding
the potential for growth

5. 1: On grid: SPICE – Dhundi, Gujarat,
India
2: Off grid: Irrigation Service Provider
(ISP Model) – Bihar, India
4: Decentralized grid: Solar Irrigation +
Home enterprise?
3: Off grid: Solar Micro-irrigation –
Ethiopia, Ghana, Africa
Agricultural water management: Tailoring solutions
Range of solar power irrigation business models

6. Improving productivity and livelihoods
through smart solar irrigation
The context
• India has 130,000 MW of installed
pumping capacity in the form of
electric and diesel tube wells.
• States subsidize solar pumps as
“green solution”.
Solution: Solar Pump Irrigation Cooperative
• Sustainable solar irrigation pumps with
feed-in tariff for selling excess electricity to
the grid.
• Reduction in greenhouse gas emissions.
• Sustainable use of groundwater.
• Diversified incomes for farmers.
The challenge
• Solar pump subsidies could
incentivize over-pumping.
Before After energy sales
Solar
power
sales
SPICE, Gujarat, India
Agricultural water management: Solar energy for
improved productivity and livelihoods

7. India (2018)
• Government of India pledges US$ 7
billion to install grid-connected solar
pumps with surplus power buy-back
arrangements (KUSUM scheme).
• Gujarat’s SKY program (US$ 126
million) to encourage farmers to use,
produce solar.
Ethiopia (2016-2018)
• Government approves tax exemption
for agricultural machinery, including
water technologies.
• IWMI requested to conduct baseline
survey/impact assessment to support
investments in solar-powered
irrigation.
Agricultural water management: Solar energy for
improved productivity and livelihoods

8. 2. Managing risk and increasing resilience: Food
security monitoring and hazard risk mapping
• Drought Monitoring System: Insights on agricultural lands, cultivated areas,
crop health and crop diversity (dms.iwmi.org).
• Mapping risks: Methods to map multiple climate risks and their potential
impacts on people and agriculture (Giriraj et al. 2017).
Real-time response

9. IBFI Concept
http://ibfi.iwmi.org/
Managing risk and increasing resilience:
Index-based Flood Insurance (IBFI)
• Reducing vulnerability
among smallholder
farmers.
• Complements proactive
risk management activities
(e.g., water storage) to
maximize farmers’
resilience.
• Partnerships with the
private sector, universities
and local organizations.
• India’s first index-based
flood insurance scheme
implemented covering 200
households in Bihar.

10. Managing risk and increasing resilience:
Index-based Flood Insurance (IBFI)
• Reducing vulnerability
among smallholder
farmers.
• Complements proactive
risk management activities
(e.g., water storage) to
maximize farmers’
resilience.
• Partnerships with the
private sector, universities
and local organizations.
• India’s first index-based
flood insurance scheme
implemented covering 200
households in Bihar.

11. 3. Rural-urban linkages: Enhancing efficient resource
use
Thirsty cities
• Analyzing rural-urban water cycles, and managing risks
and benefits of informal wastewater irrigation.
• Reuse guideline support for WHO, FAO and USAID.
Hungry cities
• Analyzing the resilience of city-region food systems,
myths and reality of urban agriculture, and options to
minimize food waste.
Linking agriculture and sanitation/waste management
• Improving cost recovery through nutrient, water and
energy recycling from wastewater, fecal sludge and
solid waste.
• Feasibility studies for implementing resource recovery
and reuse business models and interdisciplinary
curricula development.

12. Rural-urban linkages: Business models to recover
nutrients and energy for a circular economy
Milestones:
 2016 Ghana government incorporates waste-based fertilizer in fertilizer
subsidy program, acknowledging IWMI.
 2017 commercial PPP established in Ghana—500 t organic fertilizer
(Fortifer™) per year from fecal sludge and organic municipal waste.
 2018 Fortifer™ production supported in Sri Lanka, as well as plants to
produce fuel briquettes from organic waste (Ghana).
Reduce the negative urban footprint on ecosystems and human health through market-driven
incentives that promote investments in resource recovery and reuse (RRR).
Business models and innovative partnerships

13. 4. Improving water productivity: Methods, tools and
applied research in diverse settings
Targeting areas for
improved water
productivity at
field scale…
…and at basin scale

14. Bastiaanssen et al. 2014
Improving water productivity: Overcoming data
limitations
Water Accounting Plus: A tool to evaluate and plan water resources management; monitor
changes in water resources and assess impacts of future interventions.
www.wateraccounting.org

15. 5. People, institutions and governance: Options for
strengthening institutions and policies
• Analyzing
basin/transboundary
water management
(surface water and
groundwater).
• Developing tools and
approaches to address
the challenges and
opportunities for national
and transboundary water
management.

16. People, institutions and governance: Achieving
gender-sensitive outcomes
• Incorporating
gendered perspectives
on landscapes through
participatory 3D
mapping.
• Assessing impact to
tailor technologies and
institutions to meet
the needs of changing
agricultural landscapes.

17. 6. Global partnerships for sustainable water
management
www.wateraccounting.org

18. Thank You