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01/12/2015
Framed by the Sustainable Development Goals, FAO Strategic Objectives and the upcoming climate negotiations the Town Hall meeting provided a platform to look at the challenges faced by water and land.
Gender, governance, clicmate change and nutrition were added to the conversation as cross-cutting themes, with the aims to provide an...
15/10/2015
Satellite data can provide new insights into how agricultural water use can be made more efficient and productive
07/10/2015
Workshop: Addressing our Emerging Water Futures: The Water-Food-Energy-Ecosystems Security Nexus
The workshop, organised by the CNR-Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, the JRC-Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, the FAO-Food and Agriculture Organization, and UNESCO-United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, will address interconnected solutions for a Nexus governance of water resources.
It will be organised in two steps. The first day...
07/08/2015
Tenth volume offers a nutrition perspective
Water resources are scarce in relation to a booming demand, and their availability varies significantly. Global warming means changes in precipitation patterns with prolonged periods of extremes. Together with continuous demographic change and shifts in food habits, a radically new context for water and food security and human dignity has...
07/08/2015
Side event: Agricultural water productivity; Can it be monitored?
Achieving food security in the future while using water resources in a sustainable manner will be a major challenge for us and the next generations. We will need to produce more crop per drop of water. The SDG on water (SDG 6) will very likely include a target on increasing...
03/08/2015
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Solar-powered water technologies are increasingly in demand in developing countries, as they can provide a cost-effective solution to increase agricultural productivity.
Access to water for irrigation is key to many small scale farmers in order to sustain their livelihoods and food security. Running such irrigation systems is still extremely challenging. There...
30/07/2015
New series of information products shed light on the work of the division
Through these divisional factsheets we aim to provide the readers with concise and clear descriptions on the work we carry out. From irrigation management to sustainable use of natural resources, through to Geospatial Information Systems.
The first of the series is on Sustainable Land Management (SLM) a critical practice...
09/11/2014
Interventions for improving livelihoods in Asia
Despite fast growing economies, rural poverty in Asia continues to be a major concern, whose challenges are further made complex by societal transformations and increasing climate variability.
This new FAO report demonstrates the potential for water interventions in support of poverty...
08/11/2014
Representatives of the U.S. Department of Agriculture and FAO presented a new geo-spatial system for forecasting crop yields to the Federal and provincial government officials on Wednesday, October 29 at Serena Hotel in Islamabad. The new system will increase the accuracy...
07/11/2014
Andrew Noble, Director of the CGIAR programme on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE) recently vistited FAO to present WLE’s activities and to carry out further discussions on future collaboration between FAO and the CGIAR programme.
With the recently prepared memorandum of understanding, the two organizations will intensify their existing collaboration and...