NBDC outputs are available in a range of formats (reports, posters, photos, presentations, videos…). A general Summary of CPWF research in the Nile river basin is also available.
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Books and chapters
- NBDC Science Meeting Proceedings (chapters are all available individually)
- The Nile River Basin. Water, Agriculture, Governance and Livelihoods
- Integrated Natural Resource Management in the Highlands of Eastern Africa
- Nile River Basin: Hydrology, Climate and Water use
NBDC Project Briefs
- A new integrated watershed rainwater management paradigm for Ethiopia: Key messages from the Nile Basin Development Challenge
- An open source GIS tool to plan context-specific rainwater management strategies for Ethiopia
- WAT-A GAME: A tool for participatory natural resource management planning at landscape scale
- Chomo grass (Brachiaria humidicola) to rehabilitate degraded land and manage termites
- Desho grass (Pennisetum pedicellatum) for livestock feed, grazing land and soil and water management on small-scale farms
- Rainwater management for resilient livelihoods: Integrated termite management helps restore East African rangelands
- Tree growing in the highlands of Ethiopia: Key issues to be considered for its advancement
- Participatory hydrological monitoring in Ethiopia
- Evolving Nile Basin research: From livestock-water to rainwater management solutions
- Communicating inside out—The NBDC’s first year
- Thirty years learning to improve rainwater and land management in the Blue Nile basin of Ethiopia
- Rainwater management in the Ethiopian highlands: Mapping, targeting and scaling out interventions
- Rainwater management in the Ethiopian highlands: The Nile Basin Development Challenge
- Challenge Program on Water for Food in the Nile Basin: Innovation for action
- What is a local innovation platform?
- Integrating technologies, policies and institutions
- Targeting and scaling out of rainwater management systems
- Assessing and anticipating the consequences of innovation in rainwater management systems
- Catalyzing platforms for learning, communication and coordination
The Challenge also generated six news briefs tracking major activities, outputs and achievements.
NBDC Technical Reports
- (CPWF Working Paper) Innovation Platforms to Enhance Participation in Rainwater Management: Lessons from The Nile Basin Development Challenge with a Particular Focus on Political Economy and Equity Issues
- (IWMI research report) A participatory approach for hydrometeorological monitoring in the Blue Nile river basin of Ethiopia
- (IWMI research report) Determinants of Adoption of Rainwater Management Technologies among Farm Households in the Nile River Basin
- Producing digital stories and photo films: How to make stories with photos and audio recordings
- Integrated termite management for improved rainwater management: A synthesis of selected African experiences
- A new integrated watershed rainwater management paradigm for Ethiopia: Key messages from the Nile Basin Development Challenge, 2009–2013
- Uptake of integrated termite management for the rehabilitation of degraded land in East Africa: A research into use baseline study in Diga, Ethiopia
- Rainwater management for resilient livelihoods in Ethiopia: Proceedings of the Nile Basin Development Challenge Science Meeting, Addis Ababa, 9–10 July 2013
- (CPWF Working Paper) Lessons from the Nile Basin Development Challenge Program: An Institutional History
- (CPWF Working Paper) Rhetoric versus realities: A diagnosis of rainwater management development processes in the Blue Nile Basin of Ethiopia
- The ‘happy strategies’ game: Matching land and water interventions with community and landscape needs
- Similarity analysis for the Blue Nile Basin in the Ethiopian highlands
- The development of key national policies with respect to rainwater management in Ethiopia: A review
- Promoting improved rainwater and land management in the Blue Nile (Abay) basin of Ethiopia
Journal articles
- Economic incentives and natural resource management among small-scale farmers: Addressing the missing link
- An analysis of power dynamics within innovation platforms for natural resource management
- Enhancing farming system water productivity through alternative land use and water management in vertisol areas of Ethiopian Blue Nile Basin (Abay)
- Collective management on communal grazing lands: Its impact on vegetation attributes and soil erosion in the upper Blue Nile basin, northwestern Ethiopia
- Integrated innovations and recommendation domains: Paradigm for developing, scaling-out, and targeting rainwater management innovations
- Managing rainwater, improving livelihoods: assessing impacts using a Rainwater–Livelihoods–Poverty Index (RLPI)
Student theses
- Assessment of agro-ecology, and management practices effect on crop water productivity of major crops at Dapo Watershed, East Wollega Zone, Oromia Regional State
- Assessment of effect of management practices and agro-ecology on water productivity of major crops in Meja Watershed, Jeldu District, Oromia Region, Ethiopia
- Characterization and cost estimation of erosion in Abay basin: Case study on Meja watershed
- Smallholder farms livestock management practices and their implications on livestock water productivity in mixed crop-livestock systems in the highlands of Blue Nile basin: A case study from Fogera, Diga and Jeldu districts (Ethiopia)
- Characteristics and onsite costs of the sediment lost by runoff from Dapo and Chekorsa Watersheds, Digga District
- Study of smallholder farms livestock feed sourcing and feeding strategies and their implication on livestock water productivity in mixed crop-livestock systems in the highlands of the Blue Nile Basin, Ethiopia
- Characteristics and onsite costs of the sediment lost by runoff from Dapo and Chekorsa Watersheds, Diga District
- Analysis of smallholder farmer’s participation in production and marketing of export potential crops: The case of sesame in Diga district, east Wollega zone of Oromia Regional State
- The brokerage institutions and smallholder market linkages in marketing of horticultural crops in Fogera woreda, south Gondar, Amhara National Regional State
- Communication tools for improved knowledge sharing in rainwater management: A case study of the Nile Basin Development Challenge
- Physically based rainfall: Runoff modelling in the northern Ethiopian highlands: The case of Mizewa watershed
- Assessment of rainwater management practices for sustainable development and rural livelihood improvement in Andode/Meja micro watershed, Jeldu district, Oromia region, Ethiopia
- Assessment of rainwater management practices for sustainable development and rural livelihood improvement in Andode/Meja micro watershed, Jeldu district, Oromia region, Ethiopia
- Assessing the role of traditional land management practices in improving cropland productivity: The case of Diga Woreda, Oromia
Posters and presentations
See http://www.slideshare.net/CPWF (as part of the wider collection of Challenge Program Water and Food posters and presentations).
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