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Presentations

2023
  • Promoting Solar Irrigation with shallow groundwater sources among Smallholder Farmers in West Africa (Abena Ofosu, International Water Management Institute)
  • Ensuring the capacity strengthening to sustain water for agriculture and resilience. (Seifu Tilahun, International Water Management Institute)
  • Bundling and catalyzing solar-based technologies and services: Experiences from Ghana, Ethiopia, and Mali (Thai Thi Minh, International Water Management Institute)
  • Accounting for water use in FLID (Mansoor Leh, International Water Management Institute)
  • Multi-stakeholder dialogues: An interactive learning platform for FLID (Abena Ofosu, International Water Management Institute)
  • Agricultural research for development and FLID for all (Thai Thi Minh, International Water Management Institute)
  • Effect of irrigation and fertilizer management on the performance of selected forages (Misba Abdella, Bahir Dar University)
  • ILSSI’s project research processes and progress in Bahir Dar zuria district (Fikadu Tessema, International Livestock Research Institute)
  • Innovation Lab for Small Scale Irrigation (ILSSI): Irrigated fodder research and development achievements (Melkamu Derseh, International Livestock Research Institute)
  • Gender Relations and Women’s Empowerment in Small-scale Irrigated Forage Production in the Amhara and SNNP Regions of Ethiopia (Immaculate Omondi, International Livestock Research Institute)
  • Effects of PW on watershed rehabilitation and irrigation interventions in BHA-supported PSNP areas of Ethiopia (Bedru Balana, International Food Policy Research Institute)
  • Potentials for and benefits from irrigated fodder: highlights from the ILSSI research (Melkamu Derseh, International Livestock Research Institute)
  • Assessment of watershed rehabilitation and irrigation interventions in USAID Productive Safety Net Program (PSNP) watersheds of Ethiopia (Yared Bayissa, Texas A & M University)
  • Ensuring the capacity to sustain water for agriculture and resilience (Tewodros Assefa and Seifu Tilahun, Bahir Dar University)
  • Lessons on partnerships with ILSSI and scaling pathways (Rensys Engineering and Trading PLC)
  • Multistakeholder Dialogues: A Pathway to Unlocking Innovation Scaling and Sustainable Agricultural Transformation (Muluken Elias Adamseged, International Water Management Institute)
  • Market linkage pathway to catalyze smallholder farmers’ investment in irrigation (Dagmawi Melaku Abegaz, International Water Management Institute)
  • Performance of Ethiopia’s duty-exemption policy reform for irrigation pumps and equipment (Zenebe Adimassu, International Water Management Institute)
  • Getting Ahead of the Game: Experiential Learning on Groundwater Governance and Collective Action (Claudia Ringler, International Food Policy Research Institute)
  • Socio-economic effects of PW on watershed rehabilitation and irrigation interventions in BHA-supported PSNP areas of Ethiopia (Bedru Balana, International Food Policy Research Institute)
  • Gender Relations and Women’s Empowerment in Small-Scale Irrigated Forage Production in the Amhara and SNNP Regions of Ethiopia (Esther Njuguna-Mungai, International Livestock Research Institute)
  • Lessons from Engaging with Irrigated Forages Value Chain Actors – Dairy Cooperatives (Aberra Adie, International Livestock Research Institute)
  • 25 May 23 ILSSI Workshop Addis Ababa Posters
  • Co-designing resilient and sustainable climate-smart cocoa through affordable irrigation and financing mechanisms (Cocoa Health and Extension Division, Ghana Cocoa Board)
  • Linking Science to Action – A World Bank/CGIAR Partnership Scaling Innovations in Irrigation (Katie Kennedy Freeman, Sr Ag Economist, Agriculture and Climate Adaptation, World Bank)
  • Small-Scale Irrigation – Income and economic growth opportunities (Bedru Balana, International Food Policy Research Institute)
  • Partnering with private sector to reaching more smallholder farmers: Potential and constraint (Minh Thai, International Water Management Institute)
  • Contributing to agricultural led growth and improved livelihoods through small-scale irrigation (Karin Jeanneret, ENNOS)
  • ILSSI Irrigated fodder research and development: lessonsfrom cooperative based interventions (Melkamu Derseh, International Livestock Research Institute)
  • Suitability, sustainability and resilience: case study from Mali on vegetables and vegetable seed (Fati Aziz, Texas A & M University)
  • Solar Irrigation – Selected Findings from ILSSI (Claudia Ringler and Hua Xie, IFPRI)
  • Scaling irrigation for sustainability and resilience of people and systems amid climate change (Petra Schmitter, International Water Management Institute)
  • Getting Ahead of the Game: Experiential Learning on Groundwater Governance and Collective Action (Hagar ElDidi and Wei Zhang – IFPRI)
  • Small-Scale Irrigation and Nutrition: Lessons from East and West Africa (Elizabeth Bryan, International Food Policy Research Institute)
  • Capacity for sustainable agricultural water use (Nicole Lefore, Texas A & M University)
  • Ensuring the capacity to sustain water for agriculture and resilience (Seifu Tilahun, Bahir Dar University and IWMI)
2022
  • Farmer led irrigation Multi Stakeholder Dialogues: Ethiopia, Inclusive and Sustainable Expansion of Farmer Led Irrigation
  • Solar Powered Irrigation: Achieving Inclusive Access for Women (Cultivating Change)
  • Asset based irrigation finance, constraints and opportunities, Solar Powered Irrigation: Lessons on Scaling for Inclusive Access (ESMAP)
2021
  • Different segments for systems in Ghana: Determining factors and important variables to consider in segmenting cocoa farmers
  • Solar Water Pump use by cocoa farmers: Initial observations
  • Cocoa Health and Extension Division (Ghana Cocoa Board)
  • Irrigation constraints for cocoa production: Producer and market perspective
  • Water Resources Availability and Water Required for Cocoa Production in Ghana
  • Poster: Small-Scale Irrigation (SSI) and Women’s Empowerment (WE): Lessons from Northern Ghana
  • Innovating Asset Finance Inclusion: A gender-sensitive credit assessment inirrigated agricultural value chains (2021 Cultivating Equality Conference)
  • Poster: Yield index insurance and farmers’ resilience in Ethiopia: Analysis using a farm-level integrated simulation approach
  • Development of the vegetable seed sector in Mali and opportunities for irrigated seed production, Dr. Rosaine Yegbemey, World Vegetable Center
  • Supply chain actors and marketing margin of irrigation technologies in Ethiopia, Dr. Fitsum Hagos, International Water Management Institute (IWMI)
  • Does Small-Scale Irrigation Provide a Pathway to Women’s Empowerment? Lessons from Northern Ghana, Elizabeth Bryan, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
  • Impacts of scaling small-scale irrigation on nutrient loading to freshwater ecosystems, Dr. Yihun Dile, Texas A&M Integrated Decision Support Systems
2019
  • Linkages between Smaill-Scale Irrigation and Women’s Empowerment 
  • Innovation Lab for Small Scale Irrigation Seminar in Accra, Ghana 
  • Irrigation and agriculture development in Africa: Impact on water quality and ecosystem health in the Ethiopian highlands
2018
Presentations from the Ethiopia Stakeholder Workshop
  • Overview of the Feed the Future ILSSI – Aims, partners, activities, and impact
  • Impact of SSI: Implications for income, nutrition, health, and women’s empowerment
  • Small Scale irrigation technologies: Farmers willingness to pay
  • Entry points for scaling: Market for irrigated fodder in Ethiopia
  • Entry points for scaling: Microfinance and rural lending, and engaging the private sector in technology supply chains
  • Potential for upscaling small-scale irrigation (IDSS) – constraints and opportunities
Presentations from the Ghana Stakeholder Workshop
  • ILSSI Overview
  • Potential for upscaling small-scale irrigation (IDSS) – constraints and opportunities
  • Entry Points for SSI Scaling: Economic feasibility with scaling through micro and rural finance, and engaging the private sector
  • Enhancing Land and water productivity of small-scale irrigation in Northern Ghana through improved irrigation and water scheduling technologies
  • Farmers experience and success stories
Presentations from the Tanzania Stakeholder Workshop
  • Impact of SSI: Implications for income, nutrition, health, and women’s’ empowerment
  • Potential for upscaling small-scale irrigation (IDSS) – constraints and opportunities
  • Entry points for scaling: Strengthening fodder markets and testing forages under different irrigation technologies in Tanzania
  • Small Scale irrigation technologies: Managing water efficiency and productivity for productivity and profit
  • Small Scale irrigation, conservation agriculture, and homestead gardens
Presentations from the ILSSI International Symposium
  • The Role of water in Global Food Security
  • Agricultural Water Management for Sustainable Intensification of Smallholder Farms
  • Impact of research on Irrigation in Smallholder Farming Systems
  • Integrated modeling and scaling
  • Field Interventions, Gender & Nutrition
2017
  • Presentation to the External Review Committee – USAID External Review Introduction
  • Presentation to the External Review Committee – Field Intervention Result
  • Presentation to the External Review Committee – Household Survey Data – Analyzing nutrition, health and gender outcomes
  • Presentation to the External Review Committee – Engagement and outreach
  • Presentation to the External Review Committee – Integrated Modeling and Scaling
  • Presentation to the External Review Committee – Capacity Development
2016
  • Wetting front Detector – Helping farmers in irrigation scheduling and increasing water productivity
  • Innovation Laboratory for Small-Scale Irrigation – Update on interventions in Ghana, Tanzania, and Ethiopia – February 2016
  • Opportunities and constraints to the uptake of SSI in Ethiopia, Ghana, and Tanzania
  • Presentation on ILSSI Research Sites in Tanzania
  • Presentation on Rain-fed Fodder Production in Northern and Upper East Regions of Ghana
  • Update on IFPRI Activities in Ethiopia, Tanzania, and Ghana – February 8th, 2016
  • Feed the Future Innovation Laboratory for Small-Scale Irrigation – Overview of Interventions in Ghana

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