THEME
Ecosystem, Communities, and Climate
- Improving and managing River Ecosystems so the organisms may persist in highly dynamic hydrological and geomorphological variations and provide a greater understanding of the emergent effects in communities of river organisms. Water quality improvement and sanitation.
- Climate Change Impacts on Hydrology Water Resources and Agriculture
- Aquaculture and Environmental Impacts
- Watershed Ecology Management and Ecosystem Restoration
- Measures and solutions to recuperate from shocks and negative impacts of climate on agriculture system, such as severe storms, droughts and floods.
- Maintaining the biodiversity and genetic diversity.
- Improving Soil to build resilience and limit climate-related hazards and natural disasters;
- Saving small holder farmers from exhausting scare resources and input, including cash, farm inputs and livestock.
Natural Processes Biodiversity, degradation, sustainability
- Managing rivers to reinstate natural processes to restore biodiversity
- Reestablishment of natural physical processes eg. Variation of flow and sediment movement, features and physical habitats of river system, including submerged bank and food plain areas.
- Adaptation of appropriate mitigation technologies such as the cultivation of tolerant breeds to overcome the climate stress.
- Resilient agricultural practices, Conservation Agriculture / No-till Farming
- Climate Change and Ecological Restoration
- Conservation agricultural practices to build soil organic carbon and to build congenial environment for plant growth, manure management
- Restoration of Soil, Air and Water
- Water quality protection for better aquatic life and agriculture
- Restoring degraded agriculture lands, agronomic and biological techniques. adopting sustainable methods for sustainable agriculture.
- Nutrition for better health
- Sustainably and efficiently management of Natural Resources
- Aquatic Ecosystems Maintenance and Preservation
Knowledge sharing, Technology, Policy and Acts
- Rivers as a living system, Water security, Conservation Technologies, models and data sharing Using technology to modify natural environment for better yield of agricultural and horticultural crops.
- Genetic improvement of crops. Securing crops from pests and diseases and promoting appropriate measures for their control.
- Agro-advisories for timely crop monitoring; Climate and environmental system monitoring
- Strengthening capacity for adaptation to climate change, improving land and soil quality;
- Policy framework for water Agriculture and Climate
