Dear Spate friends, We have a couple of things we would like to inform you about! 1. New country networksFirst of all, we are excited that we are starting with country networks in five more countries: Afghanistan, Kenya, Malawi, Myanmar and Somalia. In the ongoing Leadership, Course plans have been made on starting in these
Leadership Course in Flood-Based Farming and Water Harvesting As part of the programme named Africa to Asia: Testing Adaptation Of Flood-Based Farming Systems (FBFS), a leadership course is being organized in flood based farming and rainwater harvesting. This course will serve as a platform for the exchange of new and innovative ideas, experiences and knowledge among young
Spate News 30 November 2015We are happy to send you this message – announcing a number of new activities and in some cases asking for your own expert input! Leadership course 29 February – 11 March 2016 Rodent control in flood based farming systems National workshop on spate irrigation in Pakistan 7 December 2015 Joining
Dear Spate Friends, We hope all is fine wherever you are.We have a couple of things we would like to inform you about: Codifying water rights in contested basins of AfghanistanUnder the NWO research project “Codifying water rights in contested basins of Afghanistan”, the Spate Irrigation Network Foundation, UNESCO-IHE and Kabul University will investigate the
Dear friends, We want to bring this article on www.thewaterblog.tv to your attention. Fuel crisis driving Yemen to the brink Since March this year, the Yemeni people have been caught in airstrikes being carried out by a Saudi-led, US-backed coalition against the Houthis and army units loyal to ex-president Ali Abdullah Saleh. The international coalition aims to
Dear Spate members, We hope all is fine. Would like to update on some recent activities in the network.. First we are developing a series of video lectures on different aspects of spate – you will find the first three of these on the website – we are hoping that these will contribute to mainstreaming
Dear spate friends, We hope all is fine. We want to draw your attention to a number of things. There are many new “gems” on the spate website. In Pakistan we have started to scan the original land and waterrights documents and the first one is in the library section. Also you will find the
Dear all, We hope you are all doing well. Here is a short update on spate activities! New overview papers: There are new overview papers on spate in different countries – Iran, Morocco, Kenya and coming soon overview papers on flood based farming in Ethiopia and Africa. We want to keep preparing these overview notes – as
Spate News April 2011 We hope you are all doing fine! We would like to update you on some news on spate: First of all and very important, the collaboration with ifad under the heading ‘spate irrigation for poverty alleviation and rural growth’ has gone off to go a start. under this program the network
Spate News October 2010 Dear members, We hope you are all fine. We want to share with you a lot of good news! First is that IFAD has made a substantial grant available to the Spate Irrigation Network. This will help to bring the network \’one level up\’. The grant is for strengthening the network