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Drip Irrigation Manual for Farmers in arabic
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This irrigation manual provides practical information for farmers on basic drip irrigation principles and practices. It has been elaborated in the framework of project GCP/MOR/033/SPA, Pilot Project to Improve Irrigation Water Use in the Doukkala irrigation scheme (Morocco), funded by the Spanish Ministry of Agriculture. |
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Sustainable Land-Water Management (SLM)
User Needs Survey
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Are you a natural resources/agriculture expert, project manager, field technician, policy maker, WOCAT network member or another SLM stakeholder? We want to hear from you!
Your opinion on the SLM Knowledge Management (KM) and Decision Support (DS) methods, tools and products developed by FAO and WOCAT is very valuable to us!
Help us to improve the existing SLM KM and DS tools by taking part in this survey. |
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United Nations Post 2015 Consultation on Water
New FAO-prepared framing paper on Water for Food
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Agriculture - including crop farming, fishery, forestry and livestock - is the largest water user
and needs to adapt to increasing uncertainty and water scarcity. This FAO prepared framing paper for the UN Post 2015 Consultation on Water examines the problems this is likely to pose in the coming decades, and hints at some possible solutions to the increasing demand for water. |
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Water Scarcity
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New analytical report highlights major issues on water security
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| This new UN-Water publication, proposes a working definition of water security developed by a broad range of contributors including FAO. It serves as a starting point for dialogue on water security in the UN system draws hevily from last years FAO-produced report on The State of agriculture resources for food and agriculture (SOLAW) |
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SOLAW Website
Water Productivity
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World Water Day celebrated at FAO HQ in Rome
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| Promotional Material: 2013 FAO Desktop Calendar |
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The May 2013 desktop calendar is now available!
Download your calendar, selecting your screen size to open the calendar image in a new window then right click on the image and select 'Set as Desktop Item' form the menu.
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FAO Water Report No. 35 in Spanish
Reutilización del agua en la agricultura: ¿Beneficios para todos? |
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This report presents an economic framework for the assessment of the use of reclaimed water in agriculture, as part of a comprehensive planning process in water resource allocation strategies to provide for a more economically efficient and sustainable water utilization. Many regions of the world are experiencing growing water stress. This arises from a relentless growth of demand for water in the face of static, or diminishing, supply and periodic droughts due to climatic factors.
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FAO Water Report No. 38
Coping With Water Scarcity -
An action framework for agriculture and food security |
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Based on an expert consultation, a
conceptual framework has been developed to help address the
question of food security under conditions of water scarcity. This
report presents the conceptual framework, reviews a series of
policy and technical options, and establishes a set of principles that
should serve as a basis for the development of effective food
security policies in response to growing water scarcity.
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FAO Water Report No. 37
Irrigation in Southern and Eastern Asia in Figures |
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This report presents the
results of the most recent survey carried out in the 22 countries of
the Southern and Eastern Asia region, and it analyses the changes
that have occurred in the ten years since the first survey.
Following
the AQUASTAT methodology, the survey relied as much as possible
on country-based statistics and information.
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FAO Irrigation and Drainage Paper No. 66
Crop Yield Response to Water |
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Abstracting from the scientific understanding and technological advances achieved over the last few decades, and relying on a network of several scientific institutions, FAO has packaged a set of tools in this Irrigation and Drainage Paper to better appraise and enhance crop yield response to water.
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The State of the World's Land and Water
Resources for Food and Agriculture (SOLAW) |
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