Farming is one of many sectors defined by technological advancement in the twentieth century, and navigating dramatic environmental changes in the twenty-first - among them, increased uncertainty in weather patterns, water insecurity, and soil degradation. This puts farmers on the front lines: how can producers serve a growing population of...

The 7th meeting of the Roundtable on Financing Water is a thematic meeting focused on financing agricultural water organised in partnership with the OECD and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). This meeting supports the OECD’s broader work on financing water as well as

The Government of The Netherlands will be supporting WaPOR for five additional years, through the WaPOR Phase 2 project, which started on January 1st 2021. The focus of this second phase will be on country level, demand-driven, applications of the database that will be co-identified and co-developed with national stakeholders. Ten...

The new WaPOR applications catalogue compiles case studies and resources in the domain of water productivity, including a wide range of applications of WaPOR data, and the varying contexts in which it is used. WaPOR is FAO's publicly accessible data portal for monitoring water productivity in agriculture, a crucial sector to...

Increasing understanding of the role that secure water resources tenure plays in ensuring sustainable livelihoods, just resource governance, environmental protection, and sustainable economic development has led FAO to re-kindle the debate that had begun in 2012, when the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and...

The world is facing high rates of antimicrobial resistance (AMR), the capacity of microorganisms to resist medicines used to treat infections. This is a major global threat of increasing concern to human and animal health, especially in the shadow of the COVID-19 global health crisis. AMR has indeed implications on...