The Eighth Dialogue on Water and Land
The Water-Land Nexus
Waltina Scheumann, Ines Dombrowsky and Michael Brüntrup
19 - 20 March 2015, Bonn
German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)
Programme
Thursday
19 March 2015
9:00 - 10:00
Registration and coffee / tea
10:00 - 10:30
Welcome and introduction
Session 1
10:30 - 11:30
Global issues related to land, water and food
Moderation: Waltina Scheumann
Global land degradation: extent and drivers
Alisher Mirzabaev (ZEF)
Water and food at the global scale
Anik Badhuri (GWSP)
Discussion
11:30 – 11:45
Break
Session 2
11:45 - 13:15
How to frame the land-water nexus?
Moderation: Ines Dombrowsky
The land and water nexus: conceptual reflexions
Waltina Scheumann / Ines Dombrowsky / Michael Brüntrup (DIE)
Water tenure – an essential element of land & water governance?
Walter Huppert (consultant, former GTZ)
A property-rights framework to diagnose the land and water nexus
Insa Theesfeld (Universität Halle Wittenberg)
Discussion
13:15 - 14:15
Lunch
Session 3
14:15 - 15:35
Key issues of land and water interdependencies in sub-Sahara Africa (1)
Moderation: Michael Brüntrup
Water resources development in Eastern and Southern African river basins: what
role does agricultural land use play?
Meike Pendo Schäfer et al. (ZALF Müncheberg)
Water-land nexus, bio-cultural frontiers and future-making in Africa
Detlef Müller-Mahn (Universität Bonn)
Customary land tenure regimes in SSA: how are they linked to water?
Tanja Pickardt (GIZ)
Discussion
15:35 - 16:00
Coffee break
Session 4
16:00 - 17:20
Governance dimensions of the land-water nexus
Moderation: Ines Dombrowsky
Regional governance and international management concepts: a chance for
sustainable land and water management in Bolivia
Evelyn Lukat (Ecologic)
The water-land nexus in Hesse’s viniculture
Thomas Ziegelmayer (Regierungspräsidium Darmstadt)
Multilevel governance aspects of micro-irrigation schemes in rural Namibia
Thomas Kluge (ISOE)
Discussion
18:30
Dinner
Friday
20 March 2015
Session 5
Key issues of land and water interdependencies in SSA (2)
Moderation: Michael Brüntrup
9:00 – 10:00
Pastoralism in SSA: environmental governance regimes and associated risks
Simone Rettberg / Susanne Neubert (SLE, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin)
IWRM in Namibia: a showcase of nexus work between land and water
Christian Gräfen (GIZ)
Discussion
10:00 – 10:30
Coffee break
Session 6
10:30 – 11:50
Experiences with the land-water nexus in German development cooperation and
beyond
Moderation: Waltina Scheumann
Jordan: integrated approaches in practice
Katja Eichner (KfW)
Managing the water buffer for climate change adaptation and food security
Vanessa Vaessen (BGR)
Water-land nexus – the GWP’s perspective
Madiodio Niasse (Global Water Partnership-West Africa)
Discussion
Session 7
11:50 – 13:00
Final debate
Moderation: Michael Brüntrup
Summing up: the water-land nexus - key issues, research themes and how we
proceed
Ines Dombrowsky (DIE)
Discussion
End at 13:00
Finger food