Land & Water

Join us at the World Water Week 2022 online and in Stockholm, Sweden from 23 August to 1 September!


The Stockholm World Water Week is a leading conference on global water issues that explores new ways of managing water to tackle humanity’s greatest challenges: from food security and health to agriculture, technology, biodiversity, and climate.

Water is a fundamental resource enabling food and nutrition security. Although nutritious food is a basic human need, 3 billion people cannot afford a nutritious and healthy diet and 800 million are undernourished worldwide.

The world’s freshwater is under unprecedented pressure due to population growth and climate change. The climate crisis is also first and foremost a water crisis. The increasing frequency and intensity of extreme weather events, including floods and droughts, have highlighted food security vulnerabilities in rainfed agriculture, which constitutes 80% of the world’s productive land. The need for climate-resilient water and food system transformations is urgent. To address this global water crisis, World Water Week 2022 will focus on how we value water, shining a light on groundwater, the world’s most forgotten source of water. Revealing and understanding the value of water will trigger much-needed decisions, innovations, and investments in managing our water better.

The events convened by the Land and Water Division of FAO at the Stockholm World Water Week 2022 will illustrate FAO’s engagement’s in promoting sustainable water management and in strengthening resilient agricultural production systems to enhance food security and sustainable livelihoods.

Join us at World Water Week and contribute to strengthening our joint efforts to highlight the urgency of addressing the water crisis and its centrality to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals!

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PROGRAMME OF EVENTS:

 

Achieving food and nutrition targets by 2030 through water security (Part 1): Status and trends of global food and water systems: SDG 2, 3 & 6 - ONLINE SESSION

Wednesday 24 August 2022, 10:00-11:20 CEST

Session co-convened by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO, the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH, the Stockholm International Water Institute and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development.

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Valuing human experiences with water to reveal disparities, prioritize action - ONLINE SESSION

Wednesday 24 August 2022, 13:00-14:20 CEST

Session co-convened by EQUIDE/Iberoamericano University, Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Small Scale Irrigation, Feed the Future Sustainable Intensification Innovation Lab, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation, Innovative Metrics for Agriculture and Nutrition, Montclair State University, Northwestern University, Swiss Water and Sanitation Consortium, USAID Center for Water Security, Sanitation and Hygiene and Yale University

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Prioritizing Indigenous Peoples in International and Local Water Policy - ONLINE SESSION

Wednesday 24 August 2022, 17:00-18:30 CEST

Session co-convened by Aborigen Forum, Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Fund for the Development of Indigenous Peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean, Indigenous Peoples of Africa Co-ordinating Committee, UN Environment Programme, UNDP-SIWI Water Governance Facility, United Nations Development Programme and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

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Groundwater: Making the invisible resource visible (Findings of UN-WWDR2022) - ONLINE SESSION

Thursday 25 August 2022, 13:00-14:20 CEST

Session convened by UNESCO World Water Assessment Programme, FAO will take part in the session.

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The forest - water nexus in Latin America - ONLINE SESSION

Thursday 25 August 2022, 20:00-21:20 CEST

Session co-convened by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the Inter-American Development Bank and the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute.

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Clean Groundwater – Our Hidden Treasure -  On-site session

Sunday 28 August 2022, 14:00-15:30 CEST

Co-convened by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, GEF International Waters, International Association of Hydrogeologists, International Groundwater Resources Assessment Centre, International Union for Conservation of Nature and the World Bank Group

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Accelerating Change: World Water Day and World Toilet Day 2023 -  On-site session

Sunday 28 August 2022, 16:00-17:30 CEST

Co-convened by the UN-Water Task Force on World Water Day / World Toilet Day 2023 (including FAO)

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Achieving food and nutrition targets by 2030 through water security (Part 2): Achieving water-food security through cross-sectoral and private sector partnerships - ON-SITE SESSION

Tuesday 30 August 2022, 09:00-10:30 CEST

Session co-convened by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH, the Stockholm International Water Institute and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development.

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Achieving food and nutrition targets by 2030 through water security (Part 3): Water-food-nutrition security messages for the UN Water Summit 2023 - ONLINE AND ON-SITE SESSION

Tuesday 30 August 2022, 11:00-12:30 CEST

Session co-convened by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH, the Stockholm International Water Institute and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development.

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Rights to water and food in freshwater resource allocation - ONLINE AND ON-SITE SESSION 

Tuesday 30 August 2022, 14:00-15:30 CEST

Session co-convened by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the Environmental Law Institute, International Water Management Institute, the Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology WISE Futures, the Rural Water Supply Network, South Africa Water Research Commission and the Water Integrity Network.

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Better decision making for water security: WEFE Nexus tools - ONLINE AND ON-SITE SESSION 

Tuesday 30 August 2022, 14:00-15:30 CEST

Session co-convened by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization, the Inter-American Development Bank, the Organization of American States, RTI International and the World Meteorological Organization

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Water, food and nutrition in a climate crisis: Field insights - ONLINE AND ON-SITE SESSION

Tuesday 30 August 2022, 16:00-17:30 CEST

Session co-convened by the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, the Global Framework on Water Scarcity in Agriculture, the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and the Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI).

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Nature-based Solutions for Sustainable Groundwater: Sharing Benefits in Resilient Foodscapes - ONLINE AND ON-SITE SESSION

Wednesday 31 August 2022, 14:00-15:30 CEST

Session co-convened by Global Resilience Partnership, The Nature Conservancy, University of Oxford and the University of Waterloo. (FAO will be a panel member)

Further info TBA

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Open data for water allocation, towards UN Water Conference 2023 - ONLINE AND ON-SITE SESSION

Thursday 01 September 2022, 10:00-10:30 CEST

Session co-convened by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Netherlands.

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