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Equity and inclusion must guide water solutions

At the 2025 CGIAR Gender Conference, IWMI underscored that the future of water security depends on scaling equity as effectively as climate-smart innovation.

Young people are reimagining irrigation with innovation, inclusion and equality at...

At the 4th World Irrigation Forum, Mark Smith, director general of IWMI, reflected that making irrigation truly “future-fit” requires listening to young people.
Daraku Mohammed Mumin manages the aquaculture nets. Photo: IWMI

Youth-led aquaculture in Northern Ghana 

By transforming underutilized dams into productive aquaculture farms, IWMI is helping to create year-round employment opportunities that reduce the need for youth migration.

Youth for a water-secure world

It is important to recognize that young professionals can make contributions to issues usually considered “beyond their scope.”
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Protecting Ghana’s Water Futures through Citizen Science

Women and youth empowered to foster responsible environmental stewardship in unique demonstration activity.
Enviro-Champs take a group photo before checking the health of a river. GroundTruth and the Duzi-uMngeni Conservation Trust (DUCT).

Heroes of environmental stewardship

As Enviro-Champs, South African youth address environmental challenges through citizen science and digital innovation.
Participants at an AICCRA multi-stakeholder dialogue held in Zambia in June, 2022. Ernest Mundia/AICCRA

Engaging youth in agripreneurship calls for a shift in the “dirty”...

Researchers highlight multiple challenges to growing young people's interest in agriculture as a source of livelihoods in Malawi.
Graphic harvest of the second and third days of the Transformative Futures for Water Security conference showing missions to transform the future of water security (Credit: Sonja Niederhumer).

Eight ambitious missions to transform the future of water security

Recognizing the need for youth to be included in this conversation, young people have been made co-guardians of the TFWS process
Youth are at the center of transforming the future of water

Youth are at the center of transforming the future of water...

It is essential that young people working in water and science are ‘co-guardians’ of the Transformative Futures for Water Security initiative.
Bengali farmers harvest rice paddies. Photo: Neil Palmer / IWMI

September-November 2022 Research Journal Roundup

Roundup of research, journal and other academic articles from September to November.