Webinar: Financing national scale energy projects in developing countries – An economy-wide evaluation of Ghana’s Bui Dam
Tuesday 22nd September 2020. 15:00-16:00 REGISTER Dr Alvaro Calzadilla, Associate Professor at UCL's Bartlett School Environment, Energy & Resources Large energy infrastructure can imply special financing arrangements between governments in developing economies and...
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Resettlement of Gumuz Communities around Ethiopia’s Blue Nile Dam: NEW open access research
Read the FutureDAMS working paper 'Resettlement of Gumuz Communities around Ethiopia’s Blue Nile Dam'. This working paper explores the programme of resettlement of Gumuz farmers and others living at low altitude along the Nile and Beles rivers, whose home areas are...
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Video: New approaches for managing water under regional resource conflicts
Watch Julien Harou's FutureDAMS presentation 'New approaches for managing water under regional resource conflicts'. The webinar was part of the ‘Water Research at Manchester - Water and Sustainable Development’ event convened by Manchester Environmental Research...
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Private sector investment and the anatomy of risk
Download 'Private sector investment and the anatomy of risk' from International Water Power & Dam Construction Magazine. The article covers a recent FutureDAMS webinar where Judith Plummer Braeckman from the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership discussed...
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Welcome to the team
The FutureDAMS consortium is delighted to welcome Gloria Salmoral to the team as the Technical Project Manager. Gloria will be responsible for coordinating our technical work, tracking milestones, organising meetings and co-development workshops, and contributing to...
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Stakeholders should get a fair share of benefits from inter-connected water-energy systems
By Julien Harou, Mathaios Panteli, Jose Gonzalez Cabrera, Gloria Salmoral and Rose Sumner. Traditionally planners considered the effects of water and energy systems on the other in simplified ways or not at all. This has often led to inefficient use of resources and a...
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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 Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/wq6uGTxnAbc https://youtu.be/wq6uGTxnAbc In the 21st Century, India has become a dam builder in Africa. In line with booming development...
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Webinar: Alternative models of irrigation development in Ghana
Roshan Adhikari, Global Development Institute, University of Manchester Tuesday 30th June 2020 Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/KuMvOyX4_5I https://youtu.be/KuMvOyX4_5I Expansion of irrigated agriculture is central to efforts to enhance food security, reduce rural...
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