News & Projects

03-02-2020 The Ziway-Shalla basin (Central Rift Valley, Ehtiopia) suffers from a combination of land degradation and agricultural expansion. The agricultural expansion is marked by a shift from rainfed to irrigated horticulture, resulting in intensification in the use of water resources and ultimately a…

25-09-2019 This week, our colleage Koos Groen is in Bangladesh to support the training on Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA).  CSA in Bangladesh is a young research field and a lot is to be learned on how CSA in Bangladesh can contribute to a more resilient agricultural sector. In this project the two…

26-04-2019 The Government of Burkina Faso is developing integrated water resource management (IWRM) plans for micro-scale level catchments. To assist their staff with the development and implementation of such plans, The Directorat Regional de l’Eau et de Assainissement (DREA-Nord) applied for a course. Thanks…

22-02-2019 Burkina Faso experiences the impacts of climate change and population growth. This has consequences for water management at the micro-basin scale, including setting up monitoring networks and taking measures to increase availability of water, especially in the dry season. In many cases small…