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The Global Water Initiative works to improve water management policies, research, investment and knowledge resources for sustainable agricultural production and improved food security.

We advocate globally and support specific action research in Central America, East Africa and West Africa. We bring together complementary resources and expertise from our partner organizations including CARE, CRS, IIED and IUCN, and work in collaboration with governments and local stakeholders in the regions we work.

Our principles:

• Maintaining or improving water quality while conserving its use as a limited resource.
• Developing and promoting sustainable agriculture systems, while improving knowledge and social learning.
• Empowering small farmers – especially women – while improving human well-being and fostering sustainable livelihoods.

How we implement change:

• GWI believes that evidence, empowerment, and learning are essential elements in delivering efficient, effective and equitable solutions for achieving food and water security.
• A revitalized smallholder rain-fed sector is critical for food security and water resource management. Change at scale requires leadership and investment by both the public and private sectors.
• Stimulating and promoting understanding of how enabling environments and/or incentives for investments by small-scale farmers are critically important.  Jumpstarting responsible investments in agriculture and water management systems will positively impact smallholder farmers as well as contribute to food and water security on a wider scale.

Source: Global Water Initiative

This week the House of Representatives will consider a provision to House Agricultural Appropriations Bill that will fundamentally undermine the concept of judicial review. Hidden under the guise of a “Farmer Assurance Provision” (Section 733), the provision strips the rights of federal courts to halt the sale and planting of genetically engineered crops during the legal appeals process.

In the past, legal advocates have successfully won in court the right to halt the sale and planting of unapproved GMO crops while the approval of those crops is under review by a federal judge. This dangerous new House provision, which we're calling the Monsanto Protection Act, would strip judges of their constitutional mandate to protect consumer rights and the environment, while opening up a floodgate of planting of new untested genetically engineered crops, endangering farmers, consumers and the environment.

Once again, Monsanto and the biotech industry are working behind closed doors to undermine your basic rights. This time they’ve gone too far! Join us in putting a stop to the Monsanto Protection Act!