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Solar Powered Water Pumps In Yemen
Yemen is predominantly a rural country, with close to 70 percent of its population living outside urban areas. Irrigated agriculture is the primary source of food, employment and economic activity. Water scarcity poses one of the most significant constraints to increasing food production in a country where more than half [...]
Webinar: Water scarcity
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The Global Framework on Water Scarcity in Agriculture (WASAG) hosted by the FAO Land and Water Division has organized a series of webinars in collaboration with its Partners. Together with the Women for Water Partnership (WfWP), a WASAG Partner, this first webinar on mainstreaming Gender in Water Scarcity in Agriculture under [...]
RECSOIL: Recarbonization of Global Soils
The online seminar on “RECSOIL: Recarbonization of Global Soils” organized by the FAO Land and Water Division on 7 April 2020 aimed at presenting the RECSOIL initiative, an innovative tool designed to address the key challenges humanity faces today within an enabling framework integrated by a series of institutions and [...]
Healthy ecosystems for healthy life: the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration 2021-2030
Today, more than ever we are searching for a sustainable future, where practices towards a healthy, Green+Blue planet will make life and the environment more resilient and beneficial to all. Harmonizing humans and the environment is an urgent need. Restoration of all types of ecosystems can make a great contribution [...]
Lessons from COVID-19 for One Water One Health
The COVID-19 pandemic recalls the vital importance of the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6 - Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all. The intrinsic value of water and its essential role and relevance in all aspects of life are undisputed. It is a [...]
Water and Climate Change: Everyone has a role to play
Climate change is threatening one of our planet’s most precious resource – water. By making responsible choices in our diet and daily life, we can save water. We all have a role to play.
Creative solutions for the use of Non-Conventional waters in Agriculture
  Water scarcity hits 40% of the global population. For every 1°C rise in global temperature, an additional 500 million people will face water scarcity. By 2050, global food production will have to increase by at least 50% to meet the demand of a growing population. More food means more water to grow it  We [...]
How to improve crop production in a changing climate?
FAO, IFAD, national governments and the Agrhymet Center, assessed the impact of climate change on the yield of a number of crops in Côte d’Ivoire, Mali, Niger and the Gambia. Watch the video to see the results. For more information on the project “Adapting small-scale irrigation to climate change in West [...]
Counting crops + Drops: using remote sensing to help grow the future together
WaPOR, FAO’s portal to monitor Water Productivity through Open-access of Remotely sensed derived data, gives users access to a wide variety of near real-time satellite data on water productivity. This information can be used by governments and research institutes to design strategies to increase water productivity and farmers’ resilience to [...]
Stop soil erosion
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Soil erosion poses a major threat to global food security and to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Find out more about the effects of soil erosion and the ways we can prevent it.