Resilience shift: ‘Seeing the bigger picture – the water-energy nexus’
Read the Resilience Shift blog 'Seeing the bigger picture - the water-energy nexus' by FutureDAMS researchers Mathaios Panteli, Eduardo Alejandro Martínez Ceseña and Julien Harou. The authors discuss the opportunities and challenges in jointly planning and developing...
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How will Covid-19 shape the future of agricultural investments?
By Sarah Redicker and Roshan Adhikari, The Global Development Institute The Covid-19 pandemic is having wide ranging effects on agricultural systems including major disruptions in food supply chains and other shocks affecting food production, as well as rural...
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Webinar – Meeting Africa’s Latest Dam Builders: The Indian ExIm Bank, ‘Entrepreneurial’ Companies and the Outcomes of South-South Cooperation
Barnaby Dye, The Global Development Institute, University of Manchester Tuesday 14th July 2020, 3pm Register In the 21st Century, India has become a dam builder in Africa. In line with booming development cooperation with the continent, India now provides subsidised...
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Webinar: Alternative models of irrigation development in Ghana
Roshan Adhikari, Global Development Institute, University of Manchester Tuesday 30th June 2020, 3pm Register Expansion of irrigated agriculture is central to efforts to enhance food security, reduce rural poverty, and increase resilience to climate change across...
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The ex-ante economic analysis of investments in large dams: a brief history
By Dale Whittington and Kerry Smith Tuesday 16th June, 4pm Watch: https://youtu.be/lqpzbpSnstE https://youtu.be/lqpzbpSnstE In this presentation Dale and Kerry explore the history of the ex-ante economic analysis of large dams through the discussion of six key...
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Power Systems and Covid-19: Crisis or bringing sectors together to survive and thrive?
By Eduardo Alejandro Martínez Ceseña, Wentao Zhu, Jose Nicolas Melchor Gutierrez, Mathaios Panteli The Covid-19 pandemic has exposed the vulnerabilities of critical services and infrastructures to large scale crises and the power sector is no exception. Electrical...
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Webinar – Climate finance for hydropower: enabling the transition to a low-carbon future
By Sejal Patel and Neha Rai, IIED Tuesday 2nd June 2020 Watch: https://youtu.be/egmlWKoNNqQ In this presentation, we discuss the role of climate financiers in supporting hydropower, and look at why hydropower project developers should be interested in the benefits of...
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The pros and cons of large hydropower financing models. New open access research
In their most recent paper, 'Mapping the evolving complexity of large hydropower project finance in low and lower-middle income countries', published in Green Finance, Markkanen, Plummer Braeckman and Souvannaseng describe and compare the advantages and limitations of...
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Webinar: Hydropower finance – complexity, risk and private sector investment
By Judith Plummer Braeckman and Sanna Markkanen, Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership Watch the webinar on YouTube Sustainably developed hydropower can be cost effective and can offer many additional benefits beyond power generation, such as water storage...
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Dams and Covid-19: Some Thoughts
By David Hulme and Barnaby Dye, Global Development Institute, University of Manchester Today we live in a lockdown world as the Covid-19 pandemic sweeps across countries and continents: air travel has virtually ceased; billions of people have been told to stay at...
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