Researchers offer technical solutions and best agricultural practices related to water quality, risk assessment and mitigation. The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) co-launched “Water Quality in Agriculture: Risks and Risk Mitigation” at the Rome Water Dialogue on October 5, 2023. This landmark...

WaPOR, FAO's portal to monitor Water Productivity through Open access of Remotely sensed derived data, is migrating to the FAO Hand in Hand platform with data obtained through an updated methodology (version 3.0). The WaPOR portal, with support from The Netherlands, has been freely providing users with near real...

Water is central to agriculture that accounts for 72 percent of global freshwater withdrawals. Water is not only crucial for food production, but is also essential for food processing, preparation and transportation. Ending hunger and malnutrition and achieving food security require access to safe drinking water, sanitation and hygiene. Agricultural...

The new FAO publication "Enabling pathways for drought finance in agriculture” is now available.  Although risk-based approaches to disaster management are particularly effective, the rapid start-up of risk financing is hardly conceivable in the case of a drought that has been grossly underfinanced. Even if existing resources are spent more effectively,...

AquaCrop is a crop growth model developed by FAO’s Land and Water Division to address food security and assess the effect of the environment and management on crop production. AquaCrop simulates the yield response of crops to water and is particularly well suited to conditions in which water is a key...

Water is an indispensable resource that lies at the heart of sustenance and prosperity for communities worldwide. In lower and middle-income countries, households and communities have long relied on a single water source to fulfill a multitude of needs, encompassing drinking, washing, cooking, livestock raising, and irrigation. Traditional water supply...

The 2023 edition of the World Water Week in Stockholm has a special focus on innovation at a time of unprecedented challenges. Its theme Seeds of Change: Innovative Solutions for a Water-Wise World, invites us to rethink how we manage water.  From the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), with our global...

From 23 to 26 May, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Ministry of Water and Sanitation of Senegal organized the national workshop on Gender contextualization of SDG 6 "Promoting an inclusive and gender-sensitive analysis of water and sanitation data" in M’Bour, Senegal. The workshop...