The Office of National Water Resources of Thailand (ONWR) organized a field visit to the Prasae River Basin in the Rayong Province with the goal of introducing the ScaleWat project to local stakeholders and visiting potential study sites for the national consultants to evaluate.  The pilo...

This year’s Global Forum for Food and Agriculture (GFFA) took place from 15 to 18 January in Berlin, Germany. The forum brought together Ministers and Practitioners from public and private sectors and civil society to develop solutions for future food security under this year’s motto “Farming ...

In the context of the International Soil and Water Forum 2024, the first Regional Consultation on Responsible Water Tenure Governance was held on Monday, 9 December 2...

The Water Tenure Mondays webinar series was held between 2021 and 2022 as a forum for building a stronger water tenure concept and pursuing FAO's efforts to broaden the knowledge base on its application to achieve more equitable and secure access to water, even under condition...

On Tuesday, 29 October, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Office of the National Water Resources (ONWR) of Thailand signed the official agreement to start implementing the pr...

The third edition of the Rome Water Dialogue was held at FAO headquarters in Rome, Italy from 14 to 18 October 2024, as part of the annual World Food For...

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...

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...