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BFP Publications

Working Papers

The working papers give insight into agricultural water productivity, water productivity assessment, water poverty and measures and approaches to agricultural poverty assessment.

Rapid Basin Assessment: Understanding the Issues and Generating a Response, BFP Working Paper 6. (2008). Francis Gichuki and Simon Cook. The paper presents a framework for rapidly assessing the resources of a basin by establishing an inventory of the resources; how the resources are used; and what is the status of the security of health, food and the environment. Based on this inventory, RBA then seeks to establish what the shortcomings are; what indications are there of problems; and how might those problems be resolved. Download [PDF 533Kb]

Spatial and Temporary Pattern of Land and Water Productivity in Lower Mekong River Basin, BFP Working Paper 5. (2008). Mohammed Mainuddin, Mac Kirby, and Yun Chen. A comprehenxive survey of water productivity of main crops and livestock (but not fish) in the four principal riparian countries of the Lower Mekong River Basin (132 figures). 
Part 1 [PDF 396 Kb]; Part 2: Figures 5 - 32 [PDF 3.62 Mb]; Part 3: Figures 33 - 62 [PDF 3.89 Mb]; Part 4: Figures 63 - 132 [PDF 1.08 Mb].

Water Productivity Assessment: Mekong River Basin Approach, BFP Working Paper 4. (2006). Mac Kirby and Mohammed Mainuddin. An advance edition of a working paper on the assessment of water productivity from the approach of the Mekong River Basin.
Download [PDF 1.1 Mb].

Mapping Water Poverty: Water, Agriculture and Poverty Linkages, BFP Working Paper 3. (2006).  Simon Cook, Francis Gichuki. A working paper, explaining the conceptual linkages between water, agriculture and poverty and potential methods of representing these linkages over entire basins at sufficient detail to enable analysis of livelihood impacts of agricultural water management.
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Water Productivity Assessment: Estimation at Plot, Farm and Basin Scale, BFP Working Paper 2. (2006). Simon Cook, Hugh Turral and Francis Gichuki. 
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Agricultural Water Productivity: Issues, Concepts and Approaches, BFP Working Paper 1. (2006). Simon Cook, Hugh Turral and Francis Gichuki.
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Research Briefs

Sao Francisco Basin

Research briefs on water management accross scales in the Sao Francisco River Basin: Policy options and poverty consequences

• Research Brief 2 (pdf 1.25MB) Poverty and water management in the Sao Francisco River Basin: preliminary assessments and issues to consider
• Research Brief 2 (Portuguese) (pdf 2.03MB) Poverty and water management in the Sao Francisco River Basin: preliminary assessments and issues to consider. Translated to Portuguese
• Research Brief 3 (pdf 922KB) Choosing the proper spatial and temporal resolution for water management: dont forget the 'invisible' factors
• Research Brief 4 (2.03MB) Water productivity at the basin level: methods benefits and shortcomings
• Research Brief 5 (3.94MB) The future of small-scale irrigation: an example of on-farm costs and benefits

Workshop Reports

• Basin Focal Project Review 2008: Workshop Report (PDF 698Kb)
• Analysing Water Poverty in the CPWF, Changmai Workshop Report (Word 1.1Mb)
• Basin Focal Project Review, Cali Workshop Report (Word 751Kb)