Welcome to the Basin Focal Projects (BFPs)

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The Basin Focal Projects of the Challenge Program for Water and Food (CPWF) provide strategic research that links project and basin activities with the global demand for improved agricultural water productivity. Based on the best scientific analysis within nine Benchmark River Basins (plus an additional project in the Niger basin), these projects will provide CPWF stakeholders with the following research outputs:

1. Analysis within basins of how agricultural water management in specific areas supports livelihoods, and in particular livelihoods of the poor and vulnerable;
2. Prognosis of basin-to-global scale change of agricultural water management and its impact on poverty and food production;
3. Definition of basin hydrologic function with respect to food production and environmental security, indicating risks to critical environmental flows from changes in patterns of agricultural water use; and
4. Definitions of coherent Impact Pathways of projects in the CPWF, together with associated projects within basins. 

    

     

    

What must the BFPs produce?

The BFPs must provide insight into the global condition of water, food and poverty, at sufficient detail to guide intervention within river basins. Analysis has only just started, but the kinds of statements might include:

1. Within the 10 basins studied, water productivity (WP) averages 0.45kg of food for each m3 of water consumed by agriculture. By the year 2050, this figure will need to increase by approximately 40%, to 0.63 kg/m3, to meet the food demands of a projected global population.
2. WP varies widely between and within basins from 0.75 kgm-3 to 0.23 kgm-3. The distribution is highly skewed, indicating that a few areas perform well but that most areas perform at low efficiency. Analysis identifies the scope and scale of specific potential increases to achieve the 40% target.
3. Scope for improvement are limited to approximately 30% of basin areas, as shown in maps and accompanying tables 

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