News
Dashboard to improve decision making on aquaculture expansion in Myanmar
The Aquaculture Decision Support Tool shows climate hazards, suitability, land use and waterbodies, and supply and demand conditions.
Features
The unique challenge of implementing anticipatory action in refugee and IDP hosting communities
Creating measures that balance the needs of refugees and local populations during disaster preparedness presents a complex issue.
Blogs
Mapping Myanmar’s water resources is key to developing sustainable aquaculture and improving nutrition
IWMI’s work will help to ensure that future investments in aquaculture in Myanmar will be sustainable, and able to boost rural livelihoods and nutrition as climate change takes hold.
Blogs
Choosing the collective: Challenging conventional ideas of women’s leadership
Lessons emerging from our research shows that collectives allow bonding and connections through identities other than gender, enabling significant change in entrenched gender-power relations.
Features
Three ways wetlands can influence climate change
Climate change could change wetlands forever, but in turn, wetlands can also help to mitigate the impact of climate change.
Blogs
Ramsar Convention and the wise use of wetlands: rethinking gender equality and inclusion
It is imperative that we realize the need for a profound and urgent rethinking on who decides, how and why, what makes for the wise use of wetlands
Blogs
Why the young aspire to leave agriculture behind
Often, migration is an adaptation strategy, and a myriad of factors shape whether a person undertakes a journey to a new city in search of opportunity.
Blogs
Success despite Covid: Hope from a Water Users Association in Central Myanmar
The Covid-19 health and economic crisis, as well as recent drought, could have caused optimism to fall. But not for the members of the “Five Village Bless” Water User Association.
News
Can a Chinese turtle farmer help us understand the future of Asian migration?
Experts gather in Guangzhou, China, to discuss migration’s effect on home communities
In the media
HuffingtonPost: The plan to dam Asia’s last free-flowing, international river
An opinion piece by Diana Suhardiman was recently featured on The Huffington Post.
Publications
Improving water management in Myanmar’s Dry Zone for food security, livelihoods and health
This research study was initiated as part of the project: Sustainable management of water to improve food security and livelihoods in the Dry Zone of Myanmar.
Features
Can Myanmar achieve food security?
The need for targeted investments to reduce poverty and regain preeminent agricultural position in the region.
Features
Providing evidence-based findings in the Dry Zone of Myanmar
Something magical happens when researchers respond directly to development challenges and the needs of end users. There is interest in the findings, it is...