Making films with scientists in remote locations is director Douglas Varchol’s speciality. For over a decade he has tramped through forests, forded rivers and waded through swamps to get  the images that can make complex science come alive. So he was a natural choice for the WLE  team when they needed a film-maker to document their research. He spoke to IWMI’s James Clarke down the line from his base in Bangkok, about the experience and he was asked first whether he found making films about a research programme entitled “Water Land and Ecosystems” daunting

Behind the scenes with WLE film-maker Douglas Varchol

A new report by WorldFish and the Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies proves conclusively that growth in aquaculture has led to greater fish consumption among the poorest consumers in Bangladesh.

Farmed fish feed Bangladesh’s poor

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Stockholm World Water Week saw scientists from the CGIAR research program on Water, Land and Ecosystems share their thoughts on topics ranging from wetlands and food security to the forgotten role of water in large-scale investments in agricultural land. Hovering over almost all of the discussions was the question of climate change, and one of the few aspects of climate change we can be absolutely certain about is that things are going to become more variable. Hotter and colder, wetter and drier, more extremes, more often. For water, that means more floods and more droughts.

Two speakers in Stockholm tackled the topic of water variability head on. Claudia Ringler, a team leader with the CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE), co-organised a session devoted to water variability and resilience. And Jeremy Bird, Director General of the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), which hosts the WLE research program, spoke on the multiple dimensions of managing water variability.

In the first of two reports, Claudia Ringler and Jeremy Bird spoke to the Thrive Podcast about the challenges of preparing for even more variability in water supplies.

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Water Variability

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Musicians:
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Official lyrics:
I want to be something
I want to feel your heart
I want to never know you want me
I want to be something
I want to never be the one who lost

I need a cause so bad
I need a reason to be in this world
I'm a boy, I'm a man
I don't know where I stand
I don't know what I like but I like what I know
But I know so little
All I know is from being alone

I wanna steal something
I wanna play your part
I wanna see you play my hand
I wanna steal something
I wanna know you got my birthday card

I need a cause so bad
I need a reason to be in this world
I'm a boy, I'm a man
I don't know where I stand
I don't know what I like but I like what I know
But I know so little
All I know is from being alone

I want to be something
I want to feel your heart
I want to never know you want me
I want to be something
I want to never be the one who lost

I want to be something
I want to be something
I don't know what I like but I like what I know
But I know so little
All I know is from being alone

I'm a boy, I'm a man
I don't know where I stand
I'm a boy, I'm a man
I don't know where I stand
I'm a boy, I'm a man
I don't know where I stand
I'm a boy, I'm a man
I don't know where I stand

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Water Variability

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