In 2022, the Committee on Agriculture (COAG) at its 28th session recommended FAO to undertake an assessment of existing water tenure arrangements and initiate a Global Dialogue on Water Tenure. Two years later, FAO and partners discussed the progress made sinc...

From 25 to 29 August, water experts gathered in Stockholm for the global annual conference on water. The 2024 edition of the World Water Week focused on water cooperation, for peace and security in its broadest sense. The theme “Bridging Borders: Water for a Peaceful and Sustainable Future” chall...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), together with Colombia's Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development, defined criteria for selecting the pilot area where the ScaleWat project will be implemented in the country.

FAO in Colombia, in colla...

With the aim of promoting the project, ScaleWat: scaling up capacities for responsible governance of water tenure, and bringing together key partners from different governmental, international, and non-governmental organizations as well as private sector institutions and academia, among othe...

FAO will present the session "Protecting tenure rights: lessons from land, forest and fisheries to reconcile legal and customary laws in the water sector and call for collective action through the Global Dialogue on Water Tenure" during the next World Bank Land Conference 2024.

This sess...

The Committee on Agriculture’s (COAG) 28th session started on Monday 18 July 2022, and the event will take place until 22 July. As one of FAO’s Governing Bodies, COAG provides overall policy and regulatory guidance on issues relating to agriculture, livestock, food safety, nutrition, rural dev...

For the global community, insecure rights of Indigenous Peoples on their lands, waters and territories represents an immeasurable cost in form of lost opportunities for climate mitigation, conservation, ecological restoration and sustainable food systems. Due to the increasing water demand, co...