The new FAO report “Economic assessment of drought risk management – A two-tier framework for cost-benefit analysis of proactive versus reactive drought management" is now available. Download the publication here >>> The paradigm shift from reactive to proactive drought management approach is more important than ever with the intensifying and...

In response to the call launched by the FAO-UNCCD Joint Initiative to supporting national multi-stakeholder consultations on integrating tenure security into Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN) and land restoration initiatives, Kazakhstan was the first country to host a national consultation in Astana on 6 and 7 December 2023. With around...

FAO is pleased to announce that WaPOR version 3 data is now available at all levels. WaPOR, FAO’s portal to monitor water productivity through open-access of remotely sensed derived data, assists countries in monitoring water productivity, identifying water productivity gaps, proposing solutions to reduce these gaps and contributing to a sustainable...

This report presents the instruction manual of the new water stress plugin for Water Evaluation and Planning system (WEAP) developed by FAO in collaboration with the Stockholm Environment Institute's U.S. Center (SEI) for the calculation of the SDG indicator 6.4.2 “Level of water stress: freshwater withdrawal as a proportion of...