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Title

Linking increases in water use efficiency for food production at the farm scale to global projections.

Acronym

GlobalFarmWater

Start

01.03.2012

End

28.02.2014

Coordinating Institute

Leibniz-Institut für Agrartechnik und Bioökonomie e.V. (ATB)

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Summary

Agriculture uses the major share of renewable water resources to feed a still expanding world population under conditions of rising water scarcity, not least due to climate change. Models for gauging the effect of global change on agriculture are comparatively large scale and therefore disconnected from the farm level. But it is at this level that the drivers of global change ultimately translate into impacts on local water resources and where action must be taken. The project aims to link a regional-to-global model that computes socio-economic and water resource-related impacts on food production and demand (IMPACT Water) with a model on water productivity at the farm level (AgroHyd). It focuses on the Ninh Tuan Province in Vietnam, a water-scarce region due to a combination of orographic and geological factors. ATB is coordinating this project (Funded by: Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ); logistics: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH) with two partners: the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) in Washington D.C. and the Southern Institute for Water Resources Planning (SIWRP) in Vietnam. The BMZ grant envisions strengthening the capacity of the project participants to develop knowledge-based responses to water resource limitations for food production, an increasingly pressing global development issue.

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Funding framework

BMZ Funding Program for International Agricultural Research