The FAO Water Report No 47 “The AquaCrop model: enhancing crop water productivity. Ten years of development, dissemination and implementation 2009-2019” presents the State-of-the-art of the development, improvement, training, and application of AquaCrop, the FAO crop-water productivity model, 10 years after its official launch.  Over the years, AcquaCrop has evolved over...

Good nutrition requires reliable access to safe soil and water for both food production and preparation as well as optimal sanitation and hygiene practices. Yet about one-third of the world’s population currently lives in water-stressed environments. Further, land degradation, water scarcity, flooding and less predictable rainfall patterns due to climate...

On the road to Glasgow COP26, FAO Land and Water Division, as coordinator of the UN-Water Expert Group on Water Scarcity, is now releasing a new Brief on Water Use Efficiency (WUE) to advance climate goals through water-energy nexus lens, across all sectors, to ensure sustainable use of freshwater in...

Policy makers and stakeholders from 17 sub-Saharan African countries came together on Wednesday, September 15, 2021, to discuss the responsible governance of tenure as a vehicle to achieve Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN), combat drought and desertification. This webinar was the first of a capacity building process organized by the Food...

To mark the 2021 United Nations Food Systems Summit (UNFSS), a group of 31 water experts call on for water resilience to be brought to the forefront of building resilient and sustainable food systems that can provision communities, economies and ecosystems into a rapidly changing world. This statement was endorsed by...

Entre el 22 y 30 de septiembre, FAO organizará seminarios web en diferentes idiomas para presentar los últimos progresos y las necesidades de aceleración para alcanzar la meta 6.4 de los ODS. El acceso a agua y saneamiento y la gestión adecuada de los ecosistemas de agua dulce se encuentran en...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) today launched two practical instruments designed to encourage soil organic carbon maintenance and sequestration, a key tool for climate action. Carbon sequestration involves the removal of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere in the form of soil organic carbon (SOC), with the...

The 9th #GlobalSoilPartnership