Jun 10, 2021 | Agriculture and livelihoods
Read The Conversation article from FutureDAMS researchers Tom Higginbottom, Roshan Adhikari and Timothy Forster ‘Big irrigation projects in Africa have failed to deliver. What’s needed next’. The article is based on the Nature Sustainability...
Jan 18, 2021 | Agriculture and livelihoods, East Africa and Eastern Nile
Irrigation schemes in sub-Saharan Africa don’t measure up to their plans. They are consistently delivering a much smaller area of irrigation or are completely broken. And things aren’t improving. Large-scale irrigation infrastructure projects are back on the...
Nov 30, 2020 | Agriculture and livelihoods
HS5.3.1: Water resources policy and management – managing trade-offs at the nexus between water, food and energy As part of the “Water Resources Policy and Management” group of sessions, Tim Foster and Roshan Adhikari are convening a session at EGU 2021 focused...
Jun 19, 2020 | Agriculture and livelihoods, News, Research
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...
Jun 11, 2020 | Agriculture and livelihoods, News
Roshan Adhikari, Global Development Institute, University of Manchester Tuesday 30th June 2020 Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/KuMvOyX4_5I Expansion of irrigated agriculture is central to efforts to enhance food security, reduce rural poverty, and increase...
Feb 26, 2020 | Agriculture and livelihoods, East Africa and Eastern Nile, News
In December 2019, FututreDAMS welcomed Dr Jenny Hodbod to present ‘Impacts of the Gibe III, Ethiopia: A social-ecological systems approach’. Jenny Hodbod is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Community Sustainability, Michigan State University,...
