CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE)

CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE) Director Izabella Koziell spoke on the main stage at EAT Forum in Stockholm this week. “A key solution for our food future is to set up large-scale payments to farmers for ecosystems services,” asserted Koziell in the session entitled Feeding the world with zero land expansion and marine degradation. “Let’s not forget women. Women at farm level face a barrage of constraints that they need to overcome... Let’s find these solutions.”

The Indus Basin is a system shared by Afghanistan, China, India, and Pakistan and supports a great number of people within and beyond its borders. Climate change, growing populations, urbanization, and disagreements about management are placing the system under considerable biophysical, social, economic and political stress. Scientists and policy makers from the Indus and beyond met to discuss the future of this ever-changing, over-stretched system, and to emphasize the importance of an open dialogue between sectors and countries.